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James Street Tavern, St Clements, Oxford
Oxford
OX4 1EU
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Steve C left this review about James Street Tavern
The James Street Tavern is a small and basic boozer with a flagstone bar area and wooden floored seating areas around. The bar counter on the rear wall supports premium keg and three hand pumps that were drawing TT Landlord, Greene King’s Rocking Rudolph and Weston’s Rosie's Pig Cider. The service was polite, but the pub is forgettable.
On 27th December 2022
- rating: 5
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Ian Mapp left this review about James Street Tavern
Hard one to rate:
Sunday afternoon and there was a very good singer/guitarist on - providing some real entertainment.
The bar staff were chronic. No one acknowledging our presence of 4 at the bar. One bloke just walking off after serving the person in front - without saying he was going on his break or whatever. The girl continuing to ignore us as she served a regular behind us first.
When she did serve us - she never cracked her face once and everything was too much trouble, including moving her laptop from the one available free table.
Still. The singer was good.
On 1st March 2022
- rating: 5
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Tris C left this review about James Street Tavern
A converted house, displaying some attractive Morland décor, this pub has been knocked through to make it what it is today.
A first in here the other night to a pub which seems aimed at a younger crowd, possibly with a live music bent alluded to by the spotlights and mirror ball in a corner, offset by the mauve and purple walls which look a bit rundown. The floor is part flagstone and part bare boarded with a bar to the rear, furniture is conventional.
Ales: Morland's Old Speckled Hen, Shotover Brewery's Oxford Trinity and James Street's own house ale at £1.90 a half and poor.
This really isn't my bag so a return is not on the cards.
On 30th August 2017
- rating: 3
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Quinno _ left this review about James Street Tavern
Molested interior but has a bit of character. Ten pumps but only six on, a mix of GK and micros including three(!) from White Horse and an unknown-to-me Fisher & Co solicitors ale (good condition but a nasty beer). Main bar area has dried hops, fairy lights, candles on tables and a couple of ornamental pistols. Paintwork battered round the edges. Nicer seating areas to left with a booth and some exposed brickwork. A room round to the left housed an upright piano and a small stage with a band setting up. A decent ale and music pub and I’d give it another go but I didn’t feel a real affinity for the place in same way I did with the Fir Tree.
On 7th May 2014
- rating: 6
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