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Coffee house/café on the [[Locale High Street|High Street]], sandwiched between [[The Queen's College]] and [[St. Edmund Hall]], serving breakfast, coffee, baguettes, panini, salads, and cakes.
Queen's Lane Coffee House claims to be one of the oldest coffee houses in Europe, personally I find this very doubtful although it may have a legitimate claim to be the oldest coffee house in the UK, and very probably is the oldest coffee house in Oxford. The shop is located facing High Street, sandwiched between [[The Queen's College]] and [[St. Edmund Hall]]. They have recently expanded their premises into the shop next door. As yet, I'm not convinced whether this has effected the claustrophobic charm of the original layout.
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Originally located at number 39 on the corner of Queens Lane and the High, in 2003 they expanded into the shop next door. On their website they say they are "reputed to be the oldest coffee house in Europe" — however, according to the Oxford History entry linked below, although "it is believed that Oxford's first coffee house, in 1654, may have been on or near this site", "the present use of the building as a coffee house only dates from c.1970".
The coffee is very nice and reasonably priced - a must for fans of independent coffee shops. The select of food is very nice with the usual baguettes, panini and salads. The breakfast menu is also very good and reasonlably priced. More tempting is the selection of cakes. I always found it a very tempting stop when I lived in the east of Oxford, but a central location it might be a little bit on the distant side to walk just for a coffee.
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As of October 2009, Café Bonjour in Headington also appears to be trading under the QL name.
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See also:
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[[Dom/Reviews/Queen's Lane Coffee House|Dom's review]]
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[http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/venue/321 Daily Info comments]
* [http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/queens-lane-coffee-house-oxford Yelp comments]
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[http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/high/tour/north/039_041.htm Oxford History entry]
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As an undergraduate at [[Magdalen College]] I found this place indespensible as a purveyor of cooked breakfasts. They have a variety of different breakfasts right up to the £6 Jumbo breakfast (something one is recommended to consume no more than once every six months). The place was also full of character and I enjoyed the communal aspect of eating there (as you quite often had to share a long table in the middle of the shop). However, as mentioned above, sometime in the last 9 months, they have doubled the size of the café, refurbished it, and generally removed any character it once had. The breakfasts are worse (mushrooms hardly cooked, toast doing a good impression of stale bread) and their standard coffee comes in smaller trendy glass mugs, and is a poor Americano rather than the previous filter coffee.

I'm disappointed to not be able to recommend this place any more;
for a fry-up, try the [[St. Giles' Cafe]] instead.

   
--[[Dom]], May 2003
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Queen's Lane Coffee House claims to be one of the oldest coffee houses in Europe, personally I find this very doubtful although it may have a legitimate claim to be the oldest coffee house in the UK, and very probably is the oldest coffee house in Oxford. The shop is located facing High Street, sandwiched between The Queen's College and St. Edmund Hall. They have recently expanded their premises into the shop next door. As yet, I'm not convinced whether this has effected the claustrophobic charm of the original layout.

The coffee is very nice and reasonably priced - a must for fans of independent coffee shops. The select of food is very nice with the usual baguettes, panini and salads. The breakfast menu is also very good and reasonlably priced. More tempting is the selection of cakes. I always found it a very tempting stop when I lived in the east of Oxford, but a central location it might be a little bit on the distant side to walk just for a coffee.


As an undergraduate at Magdalen College I found this place indespensible as a purveyor of cooked breakfasts. They have a variety of different breakfasts right up to the £6 Jumbo breakfast (something one is recommended to consume no more than once every six months). The place was also full of character and I enjoyed the communal aspect of eating there (as you quite often had to share a long table in the middle of the shop). However, as mentioned above, sometime in the last 9 months, they have doubled the size of the café, refurbished it, and generally removed any character it once had. The breakfasts are worse (mushrooms hardly cooked, toast doing a good impression of stale bread) and their standard coffee comes in smaller trendy glass mugs, and is a poor Americano rather than the previous filter coffee.

I'm disappointed to not be able to recommend this place any more; for a fry-up, try the St. Giles' Cafe instead.

   --Dom, May 2003


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