West Oxfordshire
The Bay Tree

The Bay Tree

12-14 Sheep Street, OX18 4LW, West Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Pub • Steak • British • Vegetarian


"1-star review due to food poisoning and most importantly lack of appropriate response from management. We went for dinner with my wife and had the exact same dish. Roughly 6 hours after, both of us started feeling stomach cramps which then turned out to be pretty severe food poisoning with all the worst signs. My wife and I didn’t eat lunch from the same place and had no snacks during the day… My wife had to spend the entire day in bed while trying to breastfeed our 5-month old baby. It’s been four days and we still have symptoms. Yet the management response couldn’t be poorer. Firstly we had to wait almost 48 hours for the general manager to call us after emailing, going there in person and chasing by phone. When she called she didn’t apologise once. Not once. She told us a third party would investigate the case fully, including by calling us and give the parent company a report. It’s been five days and we still haven’t heard from that third party investigator. So I trust that the fridges have been wiped and the kitchen cleaned and the investigation will reveal nothing? The appropriate response from a general manager in the hospitality industry would have been to apologise, and offer compensation so we can move on, then go and do your internal investigation to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Instead the manager focused on not accepting liability, making us feel cheap suspected grifters."

The Salford Inn

The Salford Inn

Lower End, OX7 5YW, West Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Pub • Steak • British • Burgers


"Arrived asking if still did food service at 14:20 to be told unfortunately food stopped at 2pm, but they can offer basket meals at the price of £8.50. Simple selection but with my mother of 78, it wasn 't ideal but we went with the flow. We paid an astonishing £36 for food and drinks for three. whilst ordering the drinks, some small talk from the barman/owner about a old mate coming down and that he 'd been 'Heineken 'd and probably feeling it later ' was the bar mans choice of words whilst serving us and discussing his day with other punters. Great! We chose to sit in the court yard, sun trap and beautiful but unfortunately smokers were there. Other couples we 're also informed of the late food basket ordering offered, some 20 minutes after us. Their food arrived within 10 minutes of them ordering. I then asked where our food was as it had been 48 minutes since ordering It takes time to burn the sausages he replied! (my mom asked for well done sausages! not burnt to a crisp! The meals arrived and to my shock, the content of the baskets of food was appalling! I asked for more chips as I had only 19 slim chips in the basket, yet the extras we asked for arrived within 5 minutes of complaining and asking for more. He thought it was so funny to make us wait 45 minutes for burnt sausages whilst clearing the plates away! Very disappointing to what seemed a good looking place! In summary, avoid if possible, as there are many other good food outlets in the area."

Eden Cafe

Eden Cafe

United Kingdom, OX28 6ZJ, West Oxfordshire

Cafe • Bagels • Western • Desserts


"For full disclosure, I am an ex employee of this business. Now I am no longer affiliated with the cafe, I feel I can finally give my unbiased review of both dining here and working here. I am a vegan with coeliacs disease, a condition that has severely effected my life. Eden is the only place I am able to safely have a meal within a 50 mile radius of where I live. To accommodate people like me with severe allergies, the processes this cafe have are different from most vegan restaurants- a process that someone without experience of these life threatening allergies would struggle to understand. Safety and an inclusive, tasty menu at a reasonable price is what to expect here. As someone who has worked in hospitality for ten years, the cleanliness and care taken to ensure peace of mind for customers is unmatched. From a personal point of view, the care and compassion Becs (the owner of Eden) shows for her staff is something I haven’t experienced before in this industry. Becs’ priorities are the well-being of her employees, to the point of working through chemotherapy to help staff during busy days. This attitude has developed a wonderful community around the cafe. Eden is a perfect example of what an independent business can be under good ownership. I am so happy Eden exists- for a lot of us, it is a rare experience of feeling normal and accepted when eating out. All my thanks go to Becs for a wonderful and informative year of employment- I will continue to visit eden as a customer as often as I can."