Historical version 7 of Merton's Bar And Grill (view current version)

  • 73 High Street Oxford
  • 0X1 4BE

Expensive bar (PBI of 10.25) attached to the Eastgate Hotel, used to be called 'Cafe Boheme' - bar staff are friendly and know how to make a good range of drinks. Place is open until 2am - entrance after normal pub hours was £3 (but the only time I've been we arrived at about 1am and were charged nothing — jds). A few comfy sofas and plenty of tables - seems to draw a fair number of students (probably due to locale), but no big noisy crowds the few times I've been there... 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.

OS X co-ord: 451937     OS Y co-ord: 206208     (Latitude: 51.751701 Longitude: -1.247537)
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