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  • Telephone: 240900
  • Address: 10-12 Friar's Entry
  • Postcode: OX1 2BY
  • Website: maddingcrowd.co.uk
  • Opening Hours: Mon-Wed 11.30-11, Thu-Sat 11.30-12, Sun 12-10.30

A family run free house and the only fully independent pub in the city centre. There are six real ales, Brakspears plus five rotating guests. There are quarterly beer festivals hosting over 40 guest ales and several guest ciders. Listings can be obtained from the website shortly before the event.

The atmosphere is relaxed and cultured with board games, papers and a piano. The pub proves popular with both staff and visitors from the next-door theatres. There is a challenging weekly quiz night and an open mic night for the creatively-inclined.

Decent food is served 12-9 each day and until 5pm on Sunday. Portion sizes are generous and meals are good quality. The burgers are particularly popular and following customer feedback are now served with chips rather than crisps.

Paid £2.10 for a Guest Mild, early July 2003. £2.40 for a different guest beer (Hadrian's Legion) £2.95 pint of Kronenbourg, Feb 2006

OS X co-ord: 451198     OS Y co-ord: 206495     (Latitude: 51.754349 Longitude: -1.258200)
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