The Perch Inn, Binsey - pub details
Address: Binsey, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 0NG [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 27276) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Oxford (1.2 miles), Islip (5 miles)
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> Current user rating: 6.5/10 (rated by 11 users)
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| I thought beerintheevening readers and reviewers should know that The Perch has been voted best pub in Oxfordshire 2011! http://www.inoxfordmag.co.uk/restaurant_awards/awards.html Congratulations to them! celinew - 1 Oct 2011 15:37 |
| Apologies - this should refer to The Fishes at Hinksey Alehound - 4 Jul 2011 16:22 |
| This has now ben renamed The Fishes, given a gastropub spruce up with the emphasis now on food rather than a leisurely pint. Everything in the dining room is fine and dandy with decent food available at fair prices. Where it falls down is the garden service thanks to a rather precious system where food is despatched to diners in dinky wicker baskets. The trouble is it isn't despatched quickly enough - on a reasonably busy Sunday afternoon we had to wait more than an hour for food that didn't even need to be cooked. Service was unfailingly polite...but the system just doesn't work. Probably best sampled on a quiet weekday. Alehound - 4 Jul 2011 16:17 |
| To describe the place as "a pretentious eaterie which has lost all its former character" is completely overegging it, as people are wont to do with such a classic. The Perch as I recall it was never exactly the perfect pub itself but it has a great garden and a great location, being the target of a classic walk out from Oxford across Port Meadow and the Thames/Isis to the hamlet of Binsey. On a warm March weekend resembling a summer's day, never mind spring, all the classic elements remain there - the beer was fine (Hook Norton Bitter), the garden was lovely, with nice little Glastonbury-style new age touches, and the hamlet is unspoiled. The interior has had a somewhat strange refit, but if the management have had to build the business model around dining, then that's hardly a surprise in this location in this day & age. If you didn't know the old Perch, don't fret, you can enjoy the new one pretty much as well as ever. Bronxrichie - 23 Mar 2009 00:23 |
| That's really a shame, John. We had been hoping that when the Perch re-opened it would have reverted to some of its former, say 2005, character. We visit Oxford in April or May annually and have enjoyed our walks from Summertown to Port Meadow and Binsey for more than 25 years. Of course, the Perch was always our favorite watering hole. I must say, though, in recent years after the unfortunate refurbishment of the Perch, we too have made our way to the Plough and found it a most enjoyable experience. So I expect our 2008 visit across the pond will be peppered with numerous Plough visits. pelias - 4 Oct 2008 16:12 |
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