The Eagle and Child, Oxford - pub details
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Address: 49 St Giles, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3LU [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 6214)
Oxford (0.5 miles), Islip (5.1 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Quiz machines
- Food served, Real ale
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> Current user rating: 7.0/10 (rated by 43 users)
> Local guides: Oxford pub guide, Oxfordshire pub guide
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user reviews of the Eagle and Child, Oxford
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| The Eagle and Child is a great pub and an awful pub at the same time. At the front of the building there are some tiny, but characterful old rooms where you can enjoy the excellent local beer. However, towards the back of the pub there is a recently-added conservatory area which is pretty charmless. So you're experience of this pub will depend a lot on where you can get a seat. A word about the food: it's awful. The clientele are unfussy students and tourists who'll never be back, and that's reflected in the lack of effort. I'm struggling to think when I last ate this bad: my roast beef was a cheap, fatty cut wedged on top of a greasy Yorkshire. The unforgivably bad veg was overcooked to the point of rubberness. And it was all cold when it arrived. Use this pub for midweek evening drinking with a small group of friends. Avoid like the plague for Sunday lunch. FrancoG - 1 Dec 2008 09:19 |
| Not a bad pub , full of character , beer fine . On my visit full of very annoying americans , 2 pints of your famous english beer , brakspear, spitfire or pride sir ? NO 2 pints amstell please . Got chatting to two of them told them Lord of the rings was based on a true story , tolkein had just jazzed it up a bit ! Thick t--ts believed me , God help us ! oggwyn - 3 Oct 2008 21:34 |
| Very disappointed with this on my first and only visit. It was smelly (not just the bogs - the whole place stunk of sweaty bodies and stale beer), grotty, and the beer not up to scratch. Range was also very poor and uninspiring (do they do anything but Brakespear and London Pride in this town?!) Very overrated - I left most of my pint and departed. mafting - 11 Sep 2008 20:31 |
| Well worth a visit if in Oxford. The beer is very good and reasonably priced. The food at lunchtime was excellent however I agree with a previous comment about the toilets - they do stink! ranger1485 - 19 Apr 2008 17:22 |
| 'Character', 'olde English', 'Tolkien' - you know the score. Fairly enjoyable - the front (olde) part of the place is inevitably tiny due to the retention of the snug drinking areas, but is nice to sit in if you're lucky enough to find a space. There is a more modern Everest double-glazing catalogue conservatory area out the back - not particularly great, but it does at least offer some extra seats. Ale selection very mainstream (Brakspear, Pride and...another one) on my visits, but served well enough. Toilets stank, felt like I was going to pass out - improvement needed here! Well worth a stop on an Oxford crawl for the heritage factor, but not worth a session unless you get a seat in the front area I think. Quinno - 31 Mar 2008 19:33 |
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