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The Boat Inn, Kidlington
Thrupp
Postal town: Kidlington
OX5 1JY
Served areas
Reviews of The Boat Inn (Average Rating: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
Steve of N21 left this review about The Boat Inn
Not a great experience with this one. After spending a very enjoyable Friday morning walking the nearby Oxford canal on a fine day, we planned to utilise this one for lunch.
That was until we entered the pub via the front door at 12.30pm , not that long after opening, only to find the queue to be served stretching out of the bar and virtually out into the garden. Now I know the hospitality industry is still struggling with staffing issues post Covid, but there’s understaffed and then there’s woefully understaffed.
Can’t comment on the food and beer as we decided to cut our losses and carry on down the tow path to the Jolly Boatman as I calculated that we would be there before we got anywhere near the bar here. Fortunately for once I had a decision vindicated and we found the landlady of the Jolly Boatman doing a very good impression of someone who knows how to run a waterside food lead pub on a fine weather Friday lunchtime.
As for this one, I think they have lost the fur coat as well, and this one doesn’t look good naked.
On 27th June 2023
- rating: 3
[User has posted 2110 recommendations about 1992 pubs]
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Nick Davies left this review about The Boat Inn
The Boat is nowadays basically an unbadged Chef and Brewer trading heavily on its role as a location for the Inspector Morse TV show and its not so canal-side location. A sanitised multiroom affair inside, knives and forks on the tables, and I expect that goes for the public bar too on a weekend. Nice garden which you expect to be by the canal but isn't. Mundane GK beers.
All fur coat and no knickers.
On 20th August 2018
- rating: 5
[User has posted 567 recommendations about 559 pubs]
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Boat Inn
Sadly I can remember this pub as an unspoilt Morrell's local. Now a Greene King food-led house, still a very attractive building in a picturesque location, but lacking the atmosphere to match. OK for a quick pint or food though. Cask Marque listed.
On 4th June 2016
- rating: 7
[User has posted 3339 recommendations about 3276 pubs]
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