Food & Drink: Cafés

  • Type
  • Cuisine
  • Facilities
  • Location
  • Cowley Road Area
    Café
  • North of the ring road
    Café
  • Summertown
    Café
  • Tea room
    Volunteer-run tea room, with a range of homemade cakes, and outdoor seating.
  • Central
    Café
    Hot drinks and all sorts of food to takeaway or sit and eat at their covered outdoor tables.
  • Central
    Tea room
    Formosan is an independent business established in Oxford in 2012 by a local Taiwanese entrepreneur. Being the first and only tea bar of its kind, we revive the former glory of healthy, authentic bubble tea. We carefully source all of our tea leaves directly from THE world’s best tea-farming regions, in Taiwan. Based on the Chinese tea ceremony developed over thousands of years, we’ve adopted a meticulous brewing process to bring out a finely balanced taste. This allows you to enjoy our teas just on their own, or shaken, with a choice of fresh organic milk, finest honey or fresh lemon juice. Delivery available through Deliveroo.
  • Central
    Café
    The raspberry yoghurt ice-cream is to be recommended. Has siblings in Jericho and the Cowley Road.
  • Jericho
    Café
    Possibly the best coffee ice cream in Oxford. A bit noisy and crowded, especially after the pubs close, but there's a tiny garden out the back, and you can read Daily Info there too. Has siblings in St Aldates and the Cowley Road.
  • Cowley Road Area
    Café
    Bagels, cakes and drinks too. Ongoing customer flavour suggestion competition. Sibling outlets on St Aldates and Little Clarendon St.
  • Central
    Restaurant
    Their food menu runs from 9am to 10pm and suits all moods whether you’re after a quick breakfast, a sit down lunch or a big dinner. Drink-wise they offer a huge selection of craft beers, classic cocktails, homemade soft drinks and international wine list. Drop in, say hi, chill on their WiFi, browse their bookshelves, play some board games, build some Lego or simply sit and watch the world go by.
  • Central
    Café
    Brothers and Georgina’s are two traditional, independent cafes at the heart of Oxford’s Covered Market. Brothers has a delicious range of food and drinks including full breakfasts, lunchtime sandwiches, salads & snacks and afternoon teas, coffees & cakes. Georgina’s is a secret upstairs hideaway, with a bohemian feel and plenty to tempt you!
  • Central
    Café
    Small, posh café by day (high and champagne teas, etc.), cocktails by night (happy hour 7-11pm Mon- Sat). Interesting décor, especially the door-closure device. Very crowded on May morning and at exam time. No bookings taken. Private hire available.
  • Central
    Café
    Sandwich shop and cafe with an emphasis on home made, organic, local produce. Hot meals too. Seating upstairs and free Wi-Fi access. Outside catering/delivery services too.
  • Café
    English cooked breakfasts and burgers in family-run eatery popular with motorcyclists.
  • North of the ring road
    Delicatessen
    Business breakfasts / lunches can be provided for conferences or meetings. And, as the name suggests, hampers are a speciality: gift hampers, picnics and hampers for glampers! 24h notice required, and they can come in a jute bag, cool bag or real wicker hamper. Perfect for a picnic in Blenheim Gardens.
  • Central
    Café
    Serving breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner using ethically sourced, local ingredients.Tucked away above a bicycle shop, food, coffee and a slice of tranquility can be found in The Handle Bar Cafe and Kitchen. Enjoy breakfasts, brunches, lunches and dinners with ingredients carefully sourced from independent suppliers while you sit in the bright, airy, relaxed space overlooking St Michael's Street.
  • Central
    Café
    Cafe situated at the bottom of the High Street. The window displays always look packed with sandwiches, paninis and cakes!
  • Abingdon Road
    Café
    Delicious lunch and cake made from ethically sourced ingredients in Oxford’s only wind-powered café.
  • West of the ring road
    Café
    Cute little cafe serving a new cake each month, and lunches every day.
  • Iffley / Rose Hill
    Pub
    Just over a mile south of Oxford City Centre. Homemade cakes and cream teas, local beers, limited home-made hot meals (check our opening hours). Converted barn overlooking Iffley Meadows available for hire. Cards now accepted subject to a minimum £5 spend. Customers can also set up a card tab.
  • Central
    Restaurant
    A sort of cross between Pret a Manger (indeed itsu was founded by the man behind Pret) and Wagamama - healthy, Asian-inspired hot food and snacks. Itsu is a well-established brand in London, and this is the first store outside the capital. Downloadable pdfs online list allergens and count the calories of each menu item.
  • Headington
    Café
    'Grocer...deli...coffee house' with a Waitrose-customer-friendly range of local & ethical meats/fish/cheese/fresh groceries/sandwiches/bread and many other specialities. Also external catering (inc. hamper) service.
  • Jericho
    Café
    Just minutes from the city centre yet tucked away in fashionable, bustling Jericho, with delicious home-made food served by friendly people from early ’till late. Whether it’s excellent coffee you want, a full English breakfast, light healthy lunch, tea and a (large!) slice of home-made cake, or a full evening meal after a film at the independent cinema across the street- we’ve got it covered at the Jericho Cafe.
  • Central
    Coffee shop
    In the beginning James and Lizzie served coffee on the Magdalen Bridge in Oxford, and later in the Radcliffe Camera Square. Soon after came farmer’s markets, college balls and events. Being a part of the Oxford community was, and still is, a huge part of the Jericho business. When the opportunity arose to move into a pop-up café off of Oxford High Street, James and Lizzie purchased their own roaster to enable them to roast their own coffee beans for the café. Now, Jericho Coffee Traders proudly serves customers from their flagship espresso bar on Oxford’s high street.
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