Historical version 2 of Merton's Bar And Grill (view current version)

  • Address: 73 High Street Oxford
  • Postcode: 0X1 4BE

Expensive bar attached to the [Eastgate Hotel] - bar staff are friendly and know how to make a good range of drinks. Place is open until 2am (most nights?) - entrance after normal pub hours is £3. A few comfy sofas and plenty of tables - seems to draw a fair number of students (probably due to locale), but never in such a way as to make townies such as myself think 'bloody students', as can happen in other places... Smoking is allowed all through the bar.

On Wednesday nights they do speed-dating ( www.speeddater.co.uk ), but if you're looking for lurve, try turning up at 9:30pm when it's officially ended and all the singles are still hanging around in the bar - you don't have to pay, and "So how many people did you tick?" is a great opener...

If you're a smoker, beware the cigarette machine which likes to pretend it's been turned off - keep pumping your coins through it and hitting buttons and finally it wakes up.

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