Reviews by Su Jordan
My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
Su Jordan
This visually luscious ballet for kids is a slimmed-down version of Tchaikovsky's 4 hour epic from 1890. At around 1 hour 30 minutes, including a short interval for wees and teas, it's the perfect ...
8 years ago
My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
The Coral
Su Jordan
Intriguing Liverpudlian psy-rockers The Coral are back on tour promoting their new album Distance Inbetween. After a break of several years pursuing solo and side projects, they return with a darker, ...
8 years ago
The Coral
Chipping Norton Choral Society sings Handel's Messiah
Su Jordan
I have to admit to being a little late to this evening in the cathedral-like medieval "Wool Church" of St Mary's, hidden away down a tiny dark street opposite Chipping Norton theatre (no parking! and ...
8 years ago
Chipping Norton Choral Society sings Handel's Messiah
Chicken Licken
Su Jordan
Everyone knows the tale of Chicken Licken, a naive little chick who is struck by a falling acorn and concludes that the sky is falling down. This one-man kids' show animates that story using ...
9 years ago
Chicken Licken
Arrest That Poet!
Su Jordan
“I dreamed that Martin Luther King / was standing by my compost bin…” This one-man show tells how a well-meaning composter from Bristol ended up facing criminal prosecution and a five million ...
9 years ago
Arrest That Poet!
Room on the Broom
Su Jordan
If your tiny tot is a fan of the boggly-eyed work of children's illustrator Axel Scheffler (The Gruffalo, Pip and Posy, A Squash and a Squeeze, etc.), this live action version of his classic Room on ...
9 years ago
Room on the Broom
Cushion Concert - Christmas Brass
Su Jordan
If you want to introduce the Tiny Person/People in your life to classical music and instruments, what better way than to grab a cushion and plonk them down in front of a selection of the ...
9 years ago
Cushion Concert - Christmas Brass
Blind
Su Jordan
Twice UK female beatboxing champion (2012 and 13), Grace Savage is at the top of her game at a young age (25). As she tells us, she's also an actress, but beatboxing is her main source of income ...
10 years ago
Blind
The Dictator [15]
Su Jordan
I loved this. Ok, so half the time my screeches of laughter were of the 'cor blimey, he really did just say that!!' variety, and yes, some of the jokes are certainly below the belt (or ...
12 years ago
The Dictator [15]
Headington Hill Park
Su Jordan
Another splendid tree in this park is the Pocket Handkerchief Tree, or Dove Tree, or Davidia - originally from China. It's in flower now (late May, after the wettest April on record and ...
12 years ago
Headington Hill Park
Jacobs and Field
Su Jordan
I love Jacobs & Field - it's the best thing that's happened to Headington since Waitrose, the Windmill Fair Trade shop and Coco Noir (chocolate). Small - and cramped when full - it may ...
12 years ago
Jacobs and Field
Mogadishu
Su Jordan
The first full-length play by former teacher Vivienne Franzman, Mogadishu isn't set in the war zone you might be expecting - but has its share of violence and fear. Boldy opening in Oxford on ...
12 years ago
Mogadishu
N.O.N.C.E.
Su Jordan
Steve Larkin's N.O.N.C.E. is many things - probably none of which you'll be expecting. With a show title calculated to challenge and a confrontational poster image of a shaven-headed Larkin, ...
12 years ago
N.O.N.C.E.
Death's Cabaret - A Love Story
Su Jordan
Death's Cabaret - A Love Story should by rights be called Death's Cabaret: A Ghost Story. For, as you might suspect from the title, there is a dark theme throughout, and the types of love ...
12 years ago
Death's Cabaret - A Love Story
Woyzeck on the Highveld
Su Jordan
Woyzeck on the Highveld is a production brought into existence by Handspring - the company responsible for the award-winning puppets in West End smash War Horse - and artist/animator William ...
12 years ago
Woyzeck on the Highveld
RSC Productions in Stratford 2011
Su Jordan
Macbeth is dead: Birnam Wood has arrived, concealing conquering soldiers (many English) supporting the new Scottish king Malcolm's claim and initiating a trail of slaughter. What happens next? This ...
13 years ago
RSC Productions in Stratford 2011
Variety Up The Wall
Su Jordan
This rip-roaring, rollicking rollercoaster of a show was like chancing across a very fine street entertainer in town whilst shoe-shopping, stopping to watch, then finding yourself still there ...
13 years ago
Variety Up The Wall
Points of Ellipsis
Su Jordan
Combining modern dance, live music, improvisation and animation, Points of Ellipsis was about as avant garde as Sunday evening in Oxford gets.The newly redeveloped Pegasus is a joy to ...
13 years ago
Points of Ellipsis
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Su Jordan
Journalist Jeffrey Bernard is...unwell. Only this time, it's not an excuse printed by his editor to explain the absence of his weekly column; it's because he started drinking aged around 14 and never ...
13 years ago
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Divinity Road
Su Jordan
Daily Info staff member Su Jordan had some further questions for Martin after reading the book...SJ: The scenes relating to Greg are all very graphic. How much of the imagery came directly from your ...
13 years ago
Divinity Road
Little Dark
Su Jordan
Everyone's used to black comedy these days, whether it be via Black Books, Little Britain, League of Gents, Peep Show, The Office or Nighty Night. The British have always loved to laugh at the ...
13 years ago
Little Dark
Circus of Horrors
Su Jordan
Wow, what a show. If the publicity made you expect something like the Jim Rose Circus (of freaks), well, you weren't wrong. There were definitely 'freaks', ranging from the bendiest ...
13 years ago
Circus of Horrors
Queen's Bakery (Headington)
Su Jordan
Though this bakery/cafe looks dated (it's determinedly not prettified itself into a modern snazzcafe) and is rarely full (partly because of its large size), the cakes are excellent, with lardy cake, ...
13 years ago
Queen's Bakery (Headington)
Prince of Wales (Iffley)
Su Jordan
Went here with four friends at 3pmish for a Sunday roast (which they do, amazingly, from noon until 8pm) and got the last-but-one table. The place is warm (roaring real fire), welcoming, with a nice ...
13 years ago
Prince of Wales (Iffley)
The Masons Arms (Headington Quarry)
Su Jordan
I love this pub. They have real ales and interesting ciders on tap, they have regular darts tournaments, they have the 'Maison d'etre' open mic (run by curly-haired Headington musician Rami in the ...
13 years ago
The Masons Arms (Headington Quarry)
Browns Brasserie (Woodstock Rd)
Su Jordan
Until two weeks ago, I'd never been to Brown's, despite having lived in Oxford since 1997 and being aware of its fond spot in the minds of long-term North Oxford residents. I'd also caught the rumour ...
14 years ago
Browns Brasserie (Woodstock Rd)
Charity Shop Cabaret
Su Jordan
I'm a bit of a fan of things with 'cabaret' in the title, I love charity shops and I adored C4's 'Smack the Pony' comedy sketch series, so this play in the North Wall's 'Edinburgh or Bust' season ...
14 years ago
Charity Shop Cabaret
PaperWorld
Su Jordan
On a sunny Sunday afternoon before a bank holiday, it was a delight to see so many tiny children squealing and guffawing in pleasure at a 3-man theatre show inspired by mime legend Marcel Marceau. ...
14 years ago
PaperWorld
The Fishes
Su Jordan
The Fishes is great. As you can tell by the sheer number of reviews on this page, it's very popular, with every day a busy day as far as I can tell. (I've no idea how they manage to fit an ...
14 years ago
The Fishes
Artweeks 2010
Su Jordan
Artweeks is brilliant - not just because you can go and poke your nose into people's crazy/beautiful/amazing houses and workspaces, and talk to them about their work too - but because it opens your ...
14 years ago
Artweeks 2010
Patisserie Valerie
Su Jordan
I've completely changed my mind! Having revisited with a relative for afternoon tea and a huge slice of their delectable tiramisu cake recently and experienced excellent service in a relaxed, ...
14 years ago
Patisserie Valerie
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2010
Su Jordan
Platform is an impressive, nicely put-together showcase of student dance created by Oxford University Dance Society and open contemporary dance group Freefall. Covering a good range of styles ...
14 years ago
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2010
The Oxford Revue 2010
Su Jordan
You know what? This is funny. Yup - laugh-out-loud, at times hilariously, good old-fashioned funny. I haven't seen a Revue this good in years, if ever.Whilst initially appearing to grasp ...
14 years ago
The Oxford Revue 2010
Kitsons Restaurant
Su Jordan
Given that Kitson's has been going since 2007 and that it's the only place in Abingdon offering fine dining, I'm surprised it took me three years to hear about it. It's a bit of a find. Number one: ...
14 years ago
Kitsons Restaurant
The Talkhouse
Su Jordan
We ended up here after a slightly random walk in the countryside, slightly too early for normal dinner service on a Sunday evening. It's not exactly remote, being only 15 mins' drive from Headington, ...
14 years ago
The Talkhouse
Magdalen Arms
Su Jordan
We had a jolly fine meal at the Magdalen Arms last night. It hasn't been open again all that long, but it already feels settled and smoothly run. I have to confess I'd never been inside the old MA, ...
15 years ago
Magdalen Arms
Birdwatchers [15]
Su Jordan
This is a beautiful little film, illustrating simply the plight of native peoples in Brazil. Not a documentary, but a dramatisation (though the actors playing the Guarani Indians - one of Brazil's ...
15 years ago
Birdwatchers [15]
Killforaseat Comedy Club @ the Bullingdon
Su Jordan
This month's Kill For a Seat featured a Chief-Wiggum-alike one-man-band, a furry-faced failed bus driver and a midget - dwarf - er (what's the right PC term?! 'Person of diminutive stature'?! - Tanya ...
15 years ago
Killforaseat Comedy Club @ the Bullingdon
Graduates Pick 2009
Su Jordan
Once a pram shop, then a bleakly recession-emptied unit, this airy white space on The Plain is temporarily home to a vibrant, quirky exhibition by 'a selection of artists from some of the UK's most ...
15 years ago
Graduates Pick 2009
Rango - Sudanese Voodoo Trance
Su Jordan
This Oxford date was the second on the first ever UK tour for Rango - a group of Sudanese-Egyptian master musicians - and their namesake: a large rustic marimba whose origins are in the 1800s. ...
15 years ago
Rango - Sudanese Voodoo Trance
The Oxford Food Company
Su Jordan
Wow - if you want to business lunch in style, call these chaps! Beautifully presented platters are cheerfully delivered right to your office, neatly labelled as to courses and dietary requirements ...
15 years ago
The Oxford Food Company
Oxfordshire Eco-buildings Open Days
Su Jordan
A solar electric Victorian Terrace and a former pub are leading the Third Annual Oxfordshire Eco-buildings Open Days from Sep 10 - 13 this year.When the UK’s Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband ...
15 years ago
Oxfordshire Eco-buildings Open Days
Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall
Su Jordan
I love the bittersweet wartime autobiography on which this stage adaptation is based. In it, Spike Milligan, an original Goon through and through, takes his readers on a journey through his part in ...
15 years ago
Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall
The White Hart, Wytham
Su Jordan
I've had some excellent food at the White Hart. Last night however I found myself leaving without finishing my food or paying for it (legally you can do this if you leave your name and address. You ...
15 years ago
The White Hart, Wytham
Bruno [18]
Su Jordan
Puerile, mean, shocking, rude, controversial, confusing, confused - and occasionally hilarious, Bruno leaves you with a ramshackle assortment of mixed emotions and a lot to talk about. Is Sacha Baron ...
15 years ago
Bruno [18]
Camille O'Sullivan
Su Jordan
'The Dark Angel' is this chanteuse's tagline, and tonight - in the nicest possible way - she's pretty quick off the mark demonstrating why. Camille is nothing if not in-your-face, but she oozes charm ...
15 years ago
Camille O'Sullivan
Fratelli's Pizzeria (NOW ATOMIC PIZZA)
Su Jordan
Not only is the food at Fratelli's bloomin' great, but it's also reasonably priced, the staff are friendly and they've just opened up a lovely new garden at the back for summer al fresco munching. ...
15 years ago
Fratelli's Pizzeria (NOW ATOMIC PIZZA)
Oxford Jazz Festival 2009
Su Jordan
Given that we're in the middle of a raging recession, it's no surprise that cultural endeavours are suffering, and most recently in the line of fire have been the UK's ...
15 years ago
Oxford Jazz Festival 2009
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2009
Su Jordan
"A performance with true genius as its foundation", says the Guardian, and they're not wrong. Prepare yourself for an hour-long rollercoaster ride through music, movement, autobiographical anecdote ...
15 years ago
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2009
Patisserie Valerie
Su Jordan
If the lure of the spectacular cakes in the window of Patisserie Valerie becomes too much for you as you wander down the High Street, dropping in for a quick snack is sadly a slightly predictable ...
15 years ago
Patisserie Valerie
Olives Deli
Su Jordan
I had mozzarella, basil & sundried tomato (and pepper) in a narrow little white baguette for my breakfast from here recently, and a) I think it was the nicest one of those I've ever eaten IN MY ...
15 years ago
Olives Deli
Oxford Organic Burger Company CLOSED FEB 2009
Su Jordan
Went here for a quick dinner for two last night. The place is massive, and sparsely but tastefully decorated, in a kind of cave-like tapas bar style, with mood lighting made of gourds and a dead tree ...
15 years ago
Oxford Organic Burger Company CLOSED FEB 2009
Murcof: Océano with BCN 216 & Flicker + Oren Marshall
Su Jordan
You want highbrow multimedia classical/electronic crossover? Oxford Contemporary Music provides! This evening in Europe's oldest purpose-built music auditorium (allegedly!): a suite of new music ...
15 years ago
Murcof: Océano with BCN 216 & Flicker + Oren Marshall
The Black Boy
Su Jordan
I have no idea what the Black Boy was like before its recent barstaurant makeover, but the owners have clearly put a lot of love and cash into making it what it is now: a simply classy joint with ...
16 years ago
The Black Boy
Fratelli's Pizzeria (NOW ATOMIC PIZZA)
Su Jordan
Fratelli's has taken La Capaninna, smartened it up with a gentle internal refurb (the famous plastic log frontage remains!), replaced its menu with a simple, one-page list of well-cooked, inexpensive ...
16 years ago
Fratelli's Pizzeria (NOW ATOMIC PIZZA)
Café Coco
Su Jordan
We arrived on a busy Saturday night, having already found other places full, and were grateful to be shown to a table at once. The reason why Coco is seldom my first choice is, simply, the noise. The ...
16 years ago
Café Coco
Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
Su Jordan
'Shockheaded Peter, David Lynch and Edward Gorey, with a twist of Weimar cabaret': young British company 1927's 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' is all that, plus some good-sized helpings of ...
16 years ago
Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
Oxfordshire Eco-buildings Open Days
Su Jordan
On the back of their successful 'Ideal Green Homes Show' at Oxford's Town Hall in April 2008, Coin and Climate-X once again invite the public to come and take a look at real eco-renovations in ...
16 years ago
Oxfordshire Eco-buildings Open Days
Malmaison
Su Jordan
Malmaison is, quite simply, one of the best places to eat in Oxford. With a menu consisting mainly of modern takes on traditional French dishes, and prioritising sustainably sourced and many ...
16 years ago
Malmaison
The 39 Steps
Su Jordan
It's shows like this that remind one of exactly what is so great about theatre. Look mummy - it's like the telly, but three dimensional! There are real people running about in meatspace creating ...
16 years ago
The 39 Steps
The Victoria (Jericho)
Su Jordan
After suffering in the doldrums for a long period, this pub has finally been taken over and thoroughly refurbished to a very high standard. Catering for the trendy Jericho crowd, it serves ...
16 years ago
The Victoria (Jericho)
Simon Amstell + Arnab Chanda
Su Jordan
Simon Amstell! Stop Googling yourself! With his show opening to the sound of young girls squealing and shrieking ‘WE LOVE YOU SIMON’ over loud, blaring pop music, you’d think Simon Amstell was ...
16 years ago
Simon Amstell + Arnab Chanda
Oxon Ideal Green Home Show
Su Jordan
This Thursday, 17 April 2008, Oxford Town Hall hosts Oxfordshire’s first ever Ideal Green Homes Show. ‘Ecovation’ is the theme of the event, which aims to matchmake homeowners keen to ...
16 years ago
Oxon Ideal Green Home Show
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know about Sheep But Were Afraid To Ask
Su Jordan
Easter time in the UK means lambs, and that means cute, bleating beasties gambolling across the countryside, and a few months later, very fresh, very tasty and possibly very local meat. Daily Info ...
16 years ago
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know about Sheep But Were Afraid To Ask
Sandy Lane Farm Co-operative Market
Su Jordan
If you miss the weekend farmers' markets in Oxford and you've forgotten to order your veg box delivery for the week (yes on both counts, hence the visit), you might just do better ...
16 years ago
Sandy Lane Farm Co-operative Market
Iffley Blue Restaurant
Su Jordan
On a Friday night we rang Arezzo at the last minute and had no trouble booking, which was refreshing. The Italian menu looks good on paper, and the hotel is a big white Italianate villa with a ...
16 years ago
Iffley Blue Restaurant
Joe's Bar & Grill
Su Jordan
If you happen to be in or near Summertown, this is a rather nice place to drop in for cocktails. There are big chocolate-slab leather sofa booths, slightly generic 50s photos on the walls, ...
16 years ago
Joe's Bar & Grill
Caffino & Istanbul Restaurant (CLOSED)
Su Jordan
What a great new addition to the upper Cowley Road. The eaterie for the new East Oxford Health Centre (NHS staff can access hefty discounts), this venue (comprising Caffino café downstairs ...
16 years ago
Caffino & Istanbul Restaurant (CLOSED)
Stomp!
Su Jordan
Binmen have never looked so good. Stomp is a riot of ingenious percussive rhythms and comic interactions, combining the best of street theatre and mime to create a family show with cross-cultural ...
16 years ago
Stomp!
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2008
Su Jordan
Stomp @ The New Theatre, Tue 12th - Sat 16th Feb 2008Binmen have never looked so good. Stomp is a riot of ingenious percussive rhythms and comic interactions, combining the best of street theatre and ...
16 years ago
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2008
Wagamama
Su Jordan
We arrived a little after 6 on a Friday evening, as did many others. My previous experience of Wagamama was in London, somewhere like Notting Hill, and this branch of the chain, while much smaller, ...
16 years ago
Wagamama
The Fishes
Su Jordan
The Fishes is consistently excellent. They have an impressive quote from Raymond Blanc on their publicity materials ("I really admire these guys, they've done it the way I would have done it"), and ...
16 years ago
The Fishes
Café Spice
Su Jordan
This is a very pleasing new discovery. Three of us ordered chicken tikka masala (£6.95), razella (lamb with yoghurt, cream and chillies - £6.95), chana dansak (chick peas and lentils - £4.50), ...
16 years ago
Café Spice
I Am Legend [15]
Su Jordan
Basically 28 Days Later set in New York instead of London, I Am Legend caused most of a full Vue cinema in Oxford to scream simultaneously at least once. That's probably the most that can be said for ...
16 years ago
I Am Legend [15]
Pierre Victoire
Su Jordan
Pierre Victoire is one of my favourite Oxford restaurants, but I had managed not to get there in about five years, so - having seen the mixed reviews on this page - I thought it was high time I ...
16 years ago
Pierre Victoire
AT Box - CLOSED for refurb, Aug 09
Su Jordan
Having waited excitedly for some time for this promising-looking new place to open its doors to the public (apparently they were delayed by plumbing problems), I finally got there with my partner ...
17 years ago
AT Box - CLOSED for refurb, Aug 09
Patti Smith and her Band
Su Jordan
Wow. It's hard to know where to start when describing one of the most impressive rock performances you've ever seen, but let's get it clear now: if you ever get the chance to see this woman live, DO ...
17 years ago
Patti Smith and her Band
The Big Bang
Su Jordan
I'm ashamed to say that last Tuesday was the first time I'd ever eaten at The Big Bang. Ashamed, because it looks like I've been missing out on something pretty special. As part of British Sausage ...
17 years ago
The Big Bang
Makan La
Su Jordan
This very reasonably priced, centrally located venue is the more exotic downstairs counterpart to the Nosebag restaurant (serving the same amazing cakes, whole or in large portions). I'm not at all ...
17 years ago
Makan La
Killforaseat Comedy Club @ the Bullingdon
Su Jordan
Sun 2nd Sept 2007: Dave Fulton, Owen O'Neill, Tom Greeves & your inevitable compere, SilkyIt's hard to fill an Oxford venue on a Sunday night in the University holidays, so ...
17 years ago
Killforaseat Comedy Club @ the Bullingdon
Monika, Herbert, and Forever More They Wait
Su Jordan
Lolapoloza is a nice little space, and since you can't fit very much in it, it helps when the work is of a high quality. The response of my companion to the collage pieces in this exhibition ('I ...
17 years ago
Monika, Herbert, and Forever More They Wait
The Taming Of The Shrew
Su Jordan
Creation have hit on yet another winner with this choice of outdoor summer production and location. Sitting at the foot of the Castle Mound in the striking Castle Development - just like a tiny ...
17 years ago
The Taming Of The Shrew
Browns Brasserie (Woodstock Rd)
Su Jordan
Really tasty food for carnivores: melting and delicious slow-cooked duck confit with cherries; crisp, tender lamb cutlets; roast beef with all the trimmings and so on. The presentation is careful ...
17 years ago
Browns Brasserie (Woodstock Rd)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer [15]
Su Jordan
Science behind the movie?! Er... this is magic realism, not a factual account of a real criminal, so if you thought it was the latter, you will have found this film confusing. If on the other hand ...
17 years ago
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer [15]
Gee's
Su Jordan
In Oxford, a city full of eye-grabbing architecture, you are spoilt for choice as to the most picturesque place to eat your dinner. A converted chapel, a medieval grade II listed building, a former ...
17 years ago
Gee's
Borat [15]
Su Jordan
Ha ha ha haaa! This film is so wrong, it's right. I laughed myself stupid along with an almost full cinema of others as Borat blundered his way across the US and A after Pamela Anderson and the ...
17 years ago
Borat [15]
Kerry James Marshall
Su Jordan
MAO occasionally has late opening nights where there's food, music and conversation (at least, if the ace Big Village have anything to do with it) to complement the work on display. On Fri 13 Oct the ...
18 years ago
Kerry James Marshall
The Black Dahlia [15]
Su Jordan
This complex, stylish whodunnit is based on a 1980s James Ellroy novel (which is in turn a fictionalised solution of an unsolved 1940s murder case). Unlike the over-the-top, comic-book noir we've ...
18 years ago
The Black Dahlia [15]
Killforaseat Comedy Club @ the Bullingdon
Su Jordan
Wed Sep 6, 2006: 'Grandma’s homemade petrol didn’t work out very well’
Would you have guessed that there was a top class comedy club in the backroom of your local pub? Sometimes it takes a ...
18 years ago
Killforaseat Comedy Club @ the Bullingdon
The Spin Jazz Club
Su Jordan
If you haven’t been to the Spin, you’re missing out. Finding top quality professional musicians in the small upstairs room of a town centre pub may sound implausible, but on Thursday nights The ...
18 years ago
The Spin Jazz Club
Jamals: CLOSED. Now Arzoo Oxford
Su Jordan
Out of Oxford University term, Jamal's is a whole new world. The spaciousness, pretty decor, attentive yet unintrusive service and soundtrack of modern Indian music creates a calm and relaxing ...
18 years ago
Jamals: CLOSED. Now Arzoo Oxford
Unique Creations
Su Jordan
Open from Summer 2006, Unique Creations is a pottery and craft café where you can go and have a quiet coffee and paint your own pots. There's a large selection of invitingly blank plates, bowls, ...
18 years ago
Unique Creations
Mortons, New Inn Hall Street
Su Jordan
This is the largest of the Mortons cafes, and I'd say the nicest. It's got two floors of seating, and is in a lovely higgledy-piggledy old building with nooks and crannies to hide in on a choice of ...
18 years ago
Mortons, New Inn Hall Street
Tangents - New Directions in Tango
Su Jordan
Tangents is an avant-garde side project of the more traditional quartet Tango Siempre, taking the format of tango-inspired modern jazz. On stage were Siempre stalwarts Pete Rosser (accordion), Ros ...
18 years ago
Tangents - New Directions in Tango
Qumins
Su Jordan
We arrived at about 8pm on a Thursday and were greeted pleasantly. A couple of other tables were occupied. We accepted poppadoms and drinks and settled down to examine the menu. This took some time, ...
18 years ago
Qumins
The New Statesman: Episode 2006
Su Jordan
‘Which Z-list celebrity can we expose as a love rat this week to distract the public from the rising rate of unemployment? I know! Richard and Judy! Fist dogging!’
In The New Statesman: ...
18 years ago
The New Statesman: Episode 2006
Sophie Solomon
Su Jordan
Oh dear – not only is Sophie Solomon tall, willowy, blonde and extremely charismatic, but she’s the best violinist I’ve heard live since Nigel Kennedy. And she’s got a degree in History and ...
18 years ago
Sophie Solomon
Gogol Bordello & Fighting Cocks
Su Jordan
Would you visit a brothel created by the mind of ‘the Hieronymus Bosch of Russian literature’? Well, if you did, you might just find this haphazard gaggle of musicians were the house band.
The ...
18 years ago
Gogol Bordello & Fighting Cocks
The Beard Museum
Su Jordan
The Beard Museum, hidden away in the dreaded Purple Turtle on a Sunday evening, is thus a fairly well-kept secret. BM audiences aren’t there by mistake – they’re there to sit and listen ...
18 years ago
The Beard Museum
Gwyneth Herbert
Su Jordan
Carte Blanche productions
‘a remarkably gifted talent’ - the Guardian
‘a majestic-voiced vocalist’ - Jazz UK
‘if (she) is not a star before long, I'll eat my cd player’ – the ...
18 years ago
Gwyneth Herbert
Tomohawk's Christmas Extravanga at the Cellar
Su Jordan
It’s the Tuesday before Christmas at the Cellar, and Tomohawk from the Big Speakers has a good thing going on. Not only does he manage to host an evening of some of the best male voices in Oxford ...
18 years ago
Tomohawk's Christmas Extravanga at the Cellar
Edamamé
Su Jordan
If your only experiences of oriental food have come through big restaurants, fast-food-style or takeaway outlets, Edamamé’s genuine Japanese home cooking will be a blast of clean, fresh air. ...
19 years ago
Edamamé
Ladies in Lavender [12A]
Su Jordan
Charles Dance’s directorial debut is crammed with familiar faces from British television and film, with Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as the two female leads, and Daniel Bruhl - the bright young star ...
19 years ago
Ladies in Lavender [12A]
Burlesk!
Su Jordan
Burlesk! is the kinky brainchild of Kerry Norman (Pembroke) and Sheridan Edward (graduate in Theatre and Censorship, Brookes), who spotted London’s Whoopee! Club last year at Edinburgh and decided ...
19 years ago
Burlesk!
The Mole Inn
Su Jordan
Serving a good range of modern, mainly European cuisine, The Mole is a well-kept secret tucked away in a rural location twenty minutes' drive from central Oxford.Lunchtime fayre is of the ...
19 years ago
The Mole Inn
The Last Samurai [15]
Su Jordan
Oh no, not another vehicle for a wooden US star to turn out (shock! horror!) to be better than an indigenous people at their own ancient art, thus providing a psychological justification of the ...
20 years ago
The Last Samurai [15]
Veronica Guerin [18]
Su Jordan
If you've seen the huge face of Cate Blanchett staring concernedly at you from a paper or a train station hoarding lately, don't be confused, she's not in Les Mis in the West End, and she's not a new ...
21 years ago
Veronica Guerin [18]
Spider [15]
Su Jordan
Spider's train pulls in at a busy London station. He is the last off, moving slowly, preparing himself carefully for the journey ahead. He has a battered suitcase and a scrap of paper with an address ...
21 years ago
Spider [15]
Oriental Condor
Su Jordan
Hoorah! The Condor has risen from the ashes. After being closed since early this year (2002) I can now confirm that the restaurant is most definitely back in business. New manager, same owner ...
21 years ago
Oriental Condor
Reservoir Books
Su Jordan
Reservoir Books is not just a bookshop. Its trendy black-and-red, Tarantino-referencing shopfront and décor belies its true identity as an extremely ambitious cultural and intellectual project. ...
21 years ago
Reservoir Books
Mirch Masala
Su Jordan
May 2003: Please note that Mirch Masala no longer offer a buffet.
Habitués of the Cowley Road with an interest in reasonably-priced exotic cuisine will have noticed the recent metamorphosis of ...
21 years ago
Mirch Masala
Jericho Comedy Club
Su Jordan
On a dreary Bonfire night when rain dampened the fireworks, another excellent evening was had by all at the Jericho Comedy Club. It was standing room only as MC Silky played host to John Emmerson, ...
21 years ago
Jericho Comedy Club
Georgina's
Su Jordan
Georgina's is a tiny (hence often full) café, and possibly the only upstairs establishment in Oxford's excellent and history-stuffed covered market. It plays cool music, the staff are trendy and ...
22 years ago
Georgina's
Once upon a time in the Midlands [15]
Su Jordan
A quirky modern western, OUATITM is a refreshingly funny peek into the fairly dire lives of a motley bunch of working-class Brits.
The film opens with two of the central couples of the tale ...
22 years ago
Once upon a time in the Midlands [15]
Lovers of the Arctic Circle [15]
Su Jordan
Another hit Spanish film from writer and director Julio Medem, "Lovers of the Arctic Circle" arrived hot on the heels of his "Sex and Lucia", at the Phoenix from May 31st-June 13th. "Lovers" is a ...
22 years ago
Lovers of the Arctic Circle [15]
G & D's (George and Davis)
Su Jordan
G&D's (George & Davis / George & Danver) is an Oxford tradition of the best kind. Started up in Little Clarendon Street by George and his dog 10 years ago, the new branch opened opposite Christchurch ...
22 years ago
G & D's (George and Davis)
G & D's (George & Danver)
Su Jordan
G&D's (George & Davis / George & Danver) is an Oxford tradition of the best kind. Started up in Little Clarendon Street by George and his dog 10 years ago, the new branch opened opposite Christchurch ...
22 years ago
G & D's (George & Danver)
Branca
Su Jordan
Tempted by a two-courses-for-ten-pounds deal into a virtually empty Branca on a sunny and frolick-filled May Day, I was in a good mood but prepared (by the review below!) to face disappointment. ...
22 years ago
Branca
