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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. The staff are very friendly and give knowledgable advice about the beers on offer. 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. Portion sizes are generous and meals are good quality. The burgers are particularly popular.

It has a fantastic curry and quiz night on Sunday evenings. The quiz is free to enter and the curry is £3 (vegetarian option available). Despite the price, the curry is generous and good quality.

Free WIFI available for customers; ask at the bar for the password (checked in March 2012, works fine).

  • 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
  • £1.30 pint of lime and soda, March 2012.
OS X co-ord: 451198     OS Y co-ord: 206495     (Latitude: 51.754349 Longitude: -1.258200)
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