Houssain's

I had a terrible kebab here the other night. The chicken was so dry it tasted like cardboard, the pitta was stale and the salad was awful (more or less just dry shredded white cabbage and nothing else) Only the chips were nice. This is the only inedible kebab I've ever had - and I've had some pretty poor ones over the years!

Marigold 3 Jul 2012

One of the best kebab vans in Oxford. The food is to die for. The service is excellent the kebabs are wowow! You have to try it to believe it.

rayray 26 Nov 2010

Whenever we go there’s always a bit of a queue, but I wouldn’t let that deter you: this is probably the best place to go in Oxford, and I’d even say the food is good in its own right, not just as kebab vans go.

The Chips are the best thing about the place – they’re excellent in a very traditional, classic way. Thickly cut, but a little bit crunchy, well seasoned and full of flavour. They are the kind of thing you’d expect from a decent rural pub with a Sunday lunch, not a van at 1 o’clock on a Saturday morning. Well worth a pound.

Burgers are good for £1.50, especially considering the size of the thing and the unusual freshness of the bap they come in. If you’re a vegetarian, the jacket potatoes are highly recommended – not only is it nicely buttery and soft, but the thing is so massive that by the time we’d finished eating one half the other was already cold. An unusual thing we found on the menu was a wide selection of pizzas, which as you would expect are virtually dripping with grease but aren’t bad at all, and for £2.50 a 9 inch pizza is very generous.

To top it all off, everyone there is really friendly, and they even gave us some free chips for no good reason at all. The menu is probably the most extensive I’ve seen so whatever you want it will likely be there. Genuinely excellent in almost every way.

9/10

David Wilson 31 Oct 2008

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