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  It’s a brave man that takes on one of Oxford’s landmark pubs, strips out the ‘character-building’ decor, removes the £2.50-a-pint beer tariff, brings in a new chef and cleans the plate glass window
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  An overnight stay at The Bull at Burford, courtesy of its hospitable hosts Jean-Marie and Clare Lauzier, seemed like a mini-holiday for Rosemarie and me. We experienced this beautiful Cotswold town
  just as a tourist might, and found everything about it exactly to our taste (yes, even the Elvis Presley impersonator in action at one of the pubs!). Unlike tourists, though, we had no tedious
  travelling — instead a short trip by car, roof down in the sunshine, on a route avoiding the A40, taking in Eynsham, South Leigh, Witney, Minster Lovell and the incomparable beauty of the Windrush
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           <title>Little Chef Weston-on-the-Green North, Family Farm Service Station,</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  It says much for the power of public relations that almost everyone to whom I have mentioned the Little Chef — and my unlikely visit to one — is aware of the recent involvement of Heston Blumenthal
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           <title>The White Oak, Cookham</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  This week’s restaurant review is not so much an essay in the descriptive arts as an exercise of memory.]]></description>
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  There was a welcoming feel about The Fat Fox that struck me the moment I crossed its threshold — as I remarked to landlord John Riddle when he stepped forward to say hello. In fact, we felt at home
  even before we left the car, having been guided into our parking space by a feline attendant we were later to learn was called Trouble. Not that he caused any,
  being content to sprawl beside us as we ate, ready we felt sure to help us out should any assistance in food disposal be required. Later we met Minxy, the second of the cats bequeathed to the place
  by a departing chef, and for good measure a handsome visiting dog called Layla.
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  What is it about Magdalen Road at the moment? Has it been touched with culinary fairy dust or is there something in the water? And while we know about the hares in this gastro race, The Magdalen
  Arms and the equally cheering Oxfork, The Rusty Bicycle is certainly the tortoise. Because while the former establishments win awards, eco-credentials and recognition by the barrowful, The Rusty
  Bicycle has been serving delicious food and first-class Arkell’s beer for several years now without calling any attention to itself, secure in the knowledge that its loyal and growing following are
  happy. And delighted by the way, to alert me to my ignorance and ensure I get a shufty on with a review.
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           <title>The Fishes, North Hinksey; La Cucina, St Clements, Oxford; and Quod, High Street, Oxford</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  In a weekend of even more than usual self-indulgence on the nose-bagging front, I ate at three of my favourite Oxford restaurants on consecutive days. ]]></description>
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           <title>Gee's jazz concert dinner</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  I can’t pretend to be the world’s greatest enthusiast for jazz.]]></description>
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           <title>The Company of Weavers, Witney</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  Cheap, cheerful and consistent —these are the three ‘cs’ that keep me a loyal customer of the J D Wetherspoon pub chain.]]></description>
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           <title>Fallowfields Hotel, Southmoor</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  I write this on a date that occurs only once every four years. ]]></description>
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           <title>Sojo, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford</title>
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  ‘Haven’t you been here before?” the beautiful Teresa asks when I remark on what a stunning restaurant Sojo is, particularly deceptive from the outside where it’s positioned surreptitiously next to
  the backpackers’ hostel.
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           <title>Waterside Training Restaurant, Oxford &amp; Cherwell Valley College</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  Though it hardly seemed more than two or three years, it turned out to be a full decade since Rosemarie and I had eaten at the Oxford & Cherwell Valley College’s training restaurant.]]></description>
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           <title>The Longwall Beefeater, Oxford Business Park, Cowley</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  The Longwall Beefeater was purpose built in 1995 at Oxford Business park on the site of part of the Rover works. ]]></description>
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           <title>The Blue Boar, Witney</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  As Gray Matter readers might recall, I expressed my enthusiasm some weeks ago for the tasteful transformation (cost £1.5m) of the down-at-heel Marlborough Hotel in Witney into the good-looking Blue
  Boar, a name harking back to an earlier period in the building’s history.
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           <title>The Clifden Arms, Worminghall</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  Locally sourced food was a main topic in my first restaurant review of 2012 and now — following a visit to The Clifden Arms, in Worminghall — the subject is going to feature prominently in my
  second.]]></description>
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           <title>Turl Street Kitchen, Turl Street, Oxford</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  As a restaurant critic I regularly hear boasts about (highly fashionable) locally sourced food. Sometimes these turn out to be at best exaggeration, at worst downright fibs. ]]></description>
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           <title>The Royal Sun, Begbroke</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  The story goes that King George III and his entourage were caught in a storm in 1774 and sought refuge at The Sun in Begbroke (of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world).]]></description>
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           <title>O'Neill's, George Street, Oxford</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  O’Neill’s has supplied a little corner of Ireland in Oxford city centre for nearly 15 years. ]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[  It is sound advice for anyone at a wine-tasting never to eat cheese laid on by the organisers. Any old plonk tastes wonderful with cheese, you see. ]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[  Here’s a good one for you. When is a pop-up restaurant no longer a pop-up? When planning permission for its new premises comes through and it can stop flitting about and settle down.]]></description>
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