BITE user comments - oxfordbull
Comments by oxfordbull
Excellnt pub. Found by accident and has been our first choice ever since. Food is ALWAYS excellent. The toastie and soup deal is great. Always a few choices: roast etc. A few choices of desserts.
Staff always helpful.
3 May 2010 16:42
As I took a photo of the pub sign for this place, a large bird pooed all over my jumper (it may have been three birds judging by the amount). I spent the next 15 minutes cleaning the poop off. On the way out I looked at the price list which made me laugh which was much-needed after the fly-by crapping.
Why anyone would these prices is beyond me.
The toilets were ok though.
3 May 2010 16:36
The Rose Revived Inn, Newbridge
This pub is set in a lovely location. It has some great deals (2 meals for �9.95 etc). It can, I we found out today, get rather packed so book a table (do not do I we did and try The Maybush across the bridge because it was truly awful).
The willow trees outside and the ivy covered building are straight off the front of a chocolate box.
The food is usually pretty good but there have been some disappointments.
Breakfast is a completely different matter. They offer a �7.50 buffet and the hot stuff is lovely (scrambled eggs, eggs benedict etc) but twice we have found out of date produce in the cold section (one out of date flapjack and one green and mouldy chocolate muffin). Check your dates folks.
3 May 2010 16:24
The last line of my review should read:
So anyone who can't get a table at the far superior Rose Revived (but still with some problems) should just wait longer or try another day - DO NOT WASTE YOUR CASH AT THE MAYBUSH!
Incidentally, the ignorant couple at the table for eight had to move when the noisy, ignorant daytrippers swamped the place.
I notice the lnew landlord is on this site trying to drum up business. I suggest he drastically improves the food, drops the Smash, gives everything the menu described (onions, tatare sauce etc) and employs another/more chefs.
I don't think Ruth can cope with or without 'the Chinese chef'.
3 May 2010 16:09
Just had the worst meal EVER in this pub. We had hoped to get in one of our favourites, The Rose Revived, on the other side of the bridge. As it was packed to the rafters we decided to try the 'other pub over the bridge'. The lack of cars in the car park should have set the alarm bells off be we thought we'd give it a go. The 'Home Cooked Food' sign gave us some hope. We ordered our meals and sat at a cramped table whilst a couple of 20 somethings took up a table for 8. After 40 minutes we had to ask about our meals. Theya rrived 5 minutes later. In the meantime a whole crowd of people (who had rented a canalboat) descended into our small backroom and took the place over. They didn't speak they shouted, swore and were generally annoying. The food was atrocius. We had to send back my son's chicken and chips as the chips were stone cold. Then there was no onions on the sausage and mash. No tartare sauce with my fishcakes. The woman (I presume Ruth) blamed the 'Chinese chef' in the back. I doubt there is one to be honest and I think this good-intentioned couple are just struggling on themselves. To be honest they're failing at the moment and the �28 we spent on Smoked Haddock fishcakes and frozen fries �7.95 (2/10), the Sausage and Mash (Smash) (0/10) , Chicken and cold chips in a basket (1/10) and three soft drinks was a complete rip off and in no way home cooked.
So anyone who can't get a table at the far superior (but still with some problems) should just wait longer or try another day - DO NOT WASTE YOUR CASH AT THE MAYBUSH!
3 May 2010 16:03
The Turnpike, Kidlington
Staff always seem uninterested. Lots of times meals are brought and there is stuff missing from the way it was described in the menu e.g. I have only had ONCE the Welsh rarebit with the beetroot and radish sauce. The chicken burger sounds amazing with it's roasted red pepper but 50% of the time it doesn't come with one on it. It's usually a dollop of sweet and sickly beetroot gunk. It shouldn't be hard to add a few bits to what is basically mass produced and van delivered fayre is it?
The youngest member of the waitresses has got to be the bosse's wife/mistress as no-one else could be a s miserable as she is and get away with it.
Why work with the public if you so obviously hate them?
Lunch time is full of office types who all consider themselves to be very important indeed. The real fires are amazing and seem to be tended by the same guy who does an excellent job - thank you.
I have also heard recently that it is frequented by that Lee Ryan bloke from Blue, who once said "Why worry about 9/11 when there are elephants dying in the world?"
Luckily I have never met him - it would put me right off my food.
3 May 2010 17:01