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The Market Tap, Oxford
Oxford
OX1 3DZ
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Reviews of The Market Tap (Average Rating: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Quinno _ left this review about The Market Tap
An actual bar in the covered market. Not bad; quarry tile floor, old hogsheads for tables and some heaters – rudimentary but gets the job done. No cask but seven of theirs on keg plus an interloper. A half of the Inside Out was far too fizzy and made me think whoever was running the operation that day wasn’t conversant with how to effectively operate a keykeg. Worth a nose if you’re here.
On 13th April 2025
- rating: 6
[User has posted 5552 recommendations about 5533 pubs]
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Market Tap
Tap Social outlet, only serving craft keg beers, although they do also produce cask ale. Being within an indoor market, you wouldn't expect a whole lot of space (and there isn’t), so there are some seats around the edge shelving and old wooden barrels, plus the larger tables out in the atrium. A quick bit of Time Better Spent (£2.80, half) was all I had time for, before heading to the station.
On 25th February 2024
- rating: 6
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Komakino . left this review about The Market Tap
A local brewery spreading its wings, with a pub (The White House on Abingdon Road), a tap bar in Banbury, a bakehouse and now this, making a triumvirate of licenced venues in Oxford's Covered Market and next-door-but-one to the bookshop/café Gulp Fiction. Occupying a corner plot, it's open on two sides with a small bar with keg taps against the wall, surrounded by butcher's tiles (this was formerly a butcher's shop). Limited seating within, although there are communal benches outside which can be used. Four TS beers on (Inside Out, Jobsworth, False Economy and Time Better Spent–a fifth, Cell Count, had run out) a collab sour and a cider. Some wine and spirits available plus some of their offerings and crafty interlopers in a thin fridge next to the bar. Pastries, toasties, doughnuts, cakes, sourdough and coffee fresh and available from their bakery daily. Busy on my Saturday afternoon visit with young and old (always a good sign), with the only gripes being a solitary, overworked barman, who, to be fair, was doing a great job, but let down by the sole dependence on him, some dodgy technological connection problems plus an unnecessary and overloud smart speaker pumping out music on the bar itself, making conversation between staff and customer a challenge (why not just turn it down, dear boy?)
On 5th August 2023
- rating: 6
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- Accommodation : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
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- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Darts : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes - Pastries & toasties fresh from their bakery daily - last updated 05 August 2023 by Komakino .
- Jukebox : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Live Music : Yes last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : No last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- Real Ale : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : No last updated 13 April 2025 by Quinno _
- Wheelchair Access : Yes last updated 23 January 2024 by Tris C
- WiFi : No last updated 05 August 2023 by Komakino .
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