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The Victoria, Oxford
Oxford
OX2 6EB
The Victoria,Jericho
We are back open Mondays from next week!!! Bringing you hot pies, ice cold beer and whisky galore. In the meantime… https://t.co/sVAAg2XOfT
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Reviews of The Victoria (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Tris C left this review about The Victoria
Well described below, I'm fairly certain I came here once before in the easter of 1994 when it was full of RAF memorabilia.
The pub's website claims that it eschews the typical brewery chain pub and is 'anti-gastro'. Quite plain from the outside, this is a two-level pub with circumferential gallery (function room?) above with mural to the ceiling. The floor is rough boarded and furniture is fairly ordinary. Music is muted but very worryingly, there's a giant projector screen for sport. There's a garden out back and large semi-covered raised patio at front. Behind the bar is an attractive mahogany and mirrored bar back. Décor is quite traditional with prints and walls are half wood panelled.
Ales: Fuller's Summer Ale, Thwaites' Lancaster Bomber (£3.65 and good) and Black Sheep's Best Bitter, also at £3.65 a pint and also good; the prices are high, but this is Jericho.
I liked this pub a lot and it makes for an excellent stop whilst on a Jericho crawl, especially when combined with the Rose & Crown and Gardeners Arms (Plantation Road, not North Parade Avenue)
On 3rd September 2016
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Victoria
An interesting interior makes this pub worth close inspection.The entrance is to the side and leads to the main bar,with a mix of furniture around the carpeted interior with much wood panelling.Down some steps is The Lair,a lower snug with it's own bar access and leather bench seating while some stairs from here reach a two tabled eyrie infront of the old front door,out of action these days.Back in the main bar there is a further staircase leading to an upper lounge with a central opening overlooking the action below .Here is the jokey ceiling mural and the suspended bi plane ,some banquette seating and a relaxing place to sup.The muzak was big on classic rock tracks played at a sensible background level .Food is popular here ,mainly pies with 11 on the menu and seeming good vale at £6 with salad and £8 with chips.
Tied to Marstons and only two handpumps serving Jennings Cumberland and Ringwood 4X Porter,in good nick but a poor stab at a porter.However worth including on any Jericho crawl ,there was a lively atmosphere and a good cross section of folk in enjoying the surroundings.
On 23rd January 2015
- rating: 8
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Quinno _ left this review about The Victoria
Attractive chequerboard brick building. Large double-decker interior, tarted-up but in quite a nice way. Muted atmospheric lighting rather than gloomy (always a fine line). Breezily upmarket in almost all respects, from the well-heeled clientèle to the lounge muzak. Two pumps, dispensing Brakspear Oxford Gold (very good indeed) and Ringwood 49er (is this a Marstons outlet?) plus an intriguing keg selection. Items of note included a large WWII seaplane model (a Hawker, thanks Steve!) suspended from the ceiling, pint-holding Sistine Chapel ceiling parody and an attractive bar back. ‘Handmade pies’ on the menu which sounded tempting. According to my notes the toilets were “like something out of Jeeves and Wooster” though memory has failed to recall exactly why – take my word for it. To the rear is a massive terraced beer garden, nicely executed. All-in-all, quite a positive place and I’d happily pop back again though it may not be to everyone’s taste. Combined on a crawl with the Old Bookbinders and Gardeners Arms (with the Rose & Crown but a few streets away from the Gardeners), you’ve got a bunch to match the OX1 set but without the tourists.
On 21st April 2014
- rating: 7
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 03 September 2016 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 03 September 2016 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Car Park : No last updated 03 September 2016 by Tris C
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 24 October 2018 by Komakino .
- Darts : No last updated 03 September 2016 by Tris C
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 29 August 2017 by Tris C
- Function Room : No - But lower bar can be used for private hire - last updated 24 October 2018 by Komakino .
- Hot Food : Yes - Pie-orientated. - last updated 03 September 2016 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Karaoke : No last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Live Music : No last updated 03 September 2016 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 24 October 2018 by Komakino .
- Micropub : No last updated 03 September 2016 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Quiz Night : No last updated 24 October 2018 by Komakino .
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : No last updated 21 April 2014 by Quinno _
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 24 October 2018 by Komakino .
- WiFi : Yes last updated 24 October 2018 by Komakino .
