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Cafés
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Pass the scones! It’s Afternoon Tea Week
The Five Arrows, Waddesdon heads up our curated list of top afternoon tea spots. Now we just need to work out whether we add the clotted cream or jam first...
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COWLEY ROAD CRAWL
If you always stay on the spire side of Oxford, it's time to venture across the Magdalen Bridge to the best pubs, bars and shops
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The Cape, Beaconsfield
It’s tough in the food business these days, isn’t it? So much choice for punters like us, and squeeeeezed margins for the owners of pubs, restaurants and cafés. What I’m seeing more and more of, in all kinds of businesses, is diversification – so a café like The Cape in Beaconsfield is able to offer […]
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Cool corner of Didcot (*thud*)
Like Aylesbury, Didcot is a town that raises eyebrows when you mention the word ‘cool’ (yeah I saw you do it). But I’m not kidding, if you’re yet to venture to Didcot, head straight to the theatre with its funky architecture and promise of urban culture. I’m almost growing a beard and a bun just […]
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Oxford’s hippest cafe
How many times have you gone into Oxford, tried and failed to find a cool cafe, and then settled down on pine farmhouse furniture for a carrot cake for the nth time? Not next time, because you’ll be able to put The Missing Bean in your walky sat nav and drink your coffee like the […]
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Found: *awesome* London girly lunch spot
Whoo-hoo! Very super-duper-pooper excited to write about my new find because you’re going to love it. I went up to old Larn-din town last week to meet my lovely regional Muddy editors for lunch, but it’s pretty tough finding a venue to suit when one editor is coming from Norfolk, another from Sussex, and another […]
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Check out the LASSCO brekkies!
Is this not a object of beauty and lust? An avocado, feta, coriander and chilli combination lying akimbo on a bed of sour dough, ready to be devoured by your… oh alright, I’ve taken this analogy as far as I can without a gastronomic X-rating, but I’m guessing you’re licking your lips in moist slo-mo, […]
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Feel the Lapstone love
Last year while I was on my way to review the Chef’s Dozen restaurant in Chipping Camden (such a fab place – here’s my review if you missed it first time around) I spotted a lovely old Cotswold stone building down a long path off the road, and promised myself I’d detour to it the […]
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The 8 quirkiest coffee stops in Bucks/Oxon
Addicted to your morning coffee? Unable to forgo a mozzarella and sundried tomato ciabatta brunch with a brownie chaser? Yeah, *sniff*, me too. So with your pleasure in mind, I’ve pulled together a list of some of the grooviest and unusual cafes I know in the area. Any utterly unmissably brilliant ones you think I’ve […]
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