Historical version 12 of Lamb And Flag (view current version)

  • 515787
  • 12 St. Giles'
  • OX1 3JS
  • 11am-11pm, Mon-Sat; 12noon-10.30.pm Sun

A popular student pub, this has had mixed reviews in the past, with accusations of a lack of character and disinterested staff. However, this reviewer likes it; it offers a nice hacker-space used regularly by Compsoc and OxLUG, and always has decent beer on (the regulars being Betty Stoggs and OP, London Pride and Palmer IPA seasonally). Its main downside is that it is often rather smoky. The front bar is now non-smoking.

Also, the back room smells a little too strongly of whatever they use to disinfect the toilets that are accessed through it.

They do food at lunchtimes; it's standard pub fare of a perfectly adequate, albeit not particularly exciting, variety.

Since St Johns College took the pub back in-house to manage they have stopped the occasional live music and no longer sell cigarettes. They also now do not take cards but have a cash machine. The nearest cash machine if you don't want to use this one (I never trust them not to charge), would be the one at the (Is it Royal?) Bank of Scotland over the road by Little Clarendon Street.

The profits from the pub fund several scholarships, the Lamb and Flag scholarships

OS X co-ord: 451209     OS Y co-ord: 206820     (Latitude: 51.757270 Longitude: -1.257993)
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