Turl Street Kitchen

The service, food, and environment is lovely here. If you are a student, this is the place to go. Not only do you get a 15% discount, there are also study rooms and a library upstairs. One caution: the food can take awhile sometimes. Otherwise this place is my favorite restaurant in Oxford.

Great food and drinks. Had the pork belly, and it was delicious, matched with the Freedom ale. The chocolate mousse desert and serving of different cheese, was mouth watering. One of the best Social Enterprise Kitchens to visit.

Beautiful restaurant, lovely food, the best cup of loose leaf Assam tea I have ever tasted. I even got given some free to take away. Went back the same day as I was so impressed. Very friendly nice staff. Highly recommend the place!

Very nice place. Quiet rooms with a very warm decoration. Such a relaxing atmosphere! Coffee was so nice and brownie with ice cream delicious. Will definitely return soon to taste some dishes.

We booked a space for a buffet and bar at the Turl Street Kitchen for c.30 people for the evening before a wedding and I cannot praise the set-up highly enough. In sharp contrast with other Oxford venues we approached, the Turl Street Kitchen were easy to deal with, well set-up, and extremely accommodating on the night. The food and service was excellent, the event was fuss-free. Finally - and particularly for such a central location - the whole evening was remarkably good value.

You will not regret picking Turl Street for dinner! Even on a Wednesday night, it was busy and full of energy. The menu is limited, there were about 5 main course options, but everything on the menu is fantastic. I had the trout and my husband had pork belly, and we were licking our plates. The prices are very reasonable. On a Saturday night, the most expensive main I have seen on the menu was £13. Definitely book ahead a table and enjoy one of Oxford's most delicious and down to earth restaurants.

An excellent coffee service and place to work. At lunchtime it gets rather busy, but they try to accommodate people in different sections to help with that.

Good food, nice setting, pretty quick service, little pricey, constantly changing menu. I've been here a few tines and the food has been good every time. The location is great. The service has always been quick and friendly. The style of food is a good mix of classical, modern and local. The options on the menu are usually good, if limited for vegetarians. The problem can be the changing menu. If you book a table for Sunday afternoon, you have no idea what's going to be available. I don't really like this as I quite like to plan ahead. It's a little bit pricey, but the food is good and money goes to student services so can't complain.

Nice gastropub for lunch, great food but on the expensive side.

Wonderful place. Love the quirky decor with large wooden dining tables and mismatched chairs. Visited for lunch and managed to get a table in the restaurant without a reservation. Chose the chicken burger with chips which was good. Portion size was very big. Staff were friendly and attentive when topping up bottles of water

Nice place. My pork belly was fantastic. Perfectly cooked with a great mash underneath. Wife had the fish and chips. She liked it but I was not a fan. Very different coating than I’m used to. Fish cooked correctly so it is just a taste preference for me. Staff friendly and very helpful from behind the bar.

A MUST. Usually food is really good as well as service. Coffee is always amazing. The best in this restaurant -coffee shop is the decor, furniture and ambience. Don't miss their heavy petal. They are a great option for lunch after trashing.

Decent cafe that also provides guest house accommodation, and exhibition space. It's located very centrally in Oxford, in the heart of the colleges, and museums. Inside there is a long bar and there is table service with plenty of seats although a good tip is that if you have a buggy or are in a wheelchair then if you go through the door on your immediate left you enter the ground floor room that looks out onto the street. Otherwise you'd have to go up a few steps and then either turn right or left and round the corner to find seats. The breakfast menu serves sausage or bacon baps, full English, poached eggs, and other staples. Coffee is OK, there are better places nearby. They also do Sunday roasts and evening meals. Recommended.

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This place is great! Friendly service, plenty of tables and the food is delicious! You can tell they use good produce. The chicken dish came with stock so delicious we ordered extra bread to soak up all the juices.

Clearly a popular place in Oxford for lunch! Service was attentive even though there was a mix up with our drink order. Wish there was a bit more variety in the menu. Ordered the "Cauliflower Bake" and was pleasantly surprised. Full of flavour!

This isn't exactly student friendly for dinner because it is quite pricey, but the food is still amazing nonetheless. If you want to work here, you can during the day as there is a lot of space, but again the food and drinks are not the cheapest. Rooms upstairs sometimes host interesting events.

Nice brunch. We we had the smoked salmon. It was lovely. I had an English breakfast tea but should have made sure they didn't put frothy milk in. Coffee was great.

The BEST salted caramel brownie, lovely atmosphere with lots of different spots to sit in. It can be a bit cold downstairs in winter and I would avoid the chai latte (I asked for it to be remade but still didn't taste of anything) - but everything else is great!

Turl Street was one of the places that my friend recommended when I visited Oxford, so I decided to give it a try. I ordered the fish and chips and it was way better than the fish and chips I had in London. Or anywhere else for that matter. It came with crispy potato wedges, and some great tartar/dill dipping sauce. Service was friendly/fast - we were in/out in under an hour. Would deffo recommend if you find yourself in Oxford, looking for a place to eat.

Although the waiters were friendly, the service was inordinately slow. Also, despite being a party of ~12 people we were never brought drinks menus even though we asked for them - so the place lost out on around a hundred quids worth of extra revenue! The food is okay but nothing special, I had fish and chips which was fine but nowhere near the quality of a decent traditional chippy's. Lovely toilets though!

The staff were very friendly. The drinks menu is very good - lots of choice and an emphasis on organic drinks. The food is sourced locally, fresh, flavoursome and prepared to a high standard - it was delicious. There isn't a lot of choice for food, but the choices were all quite unusual (as in you wouldn't find the same dishes in most places) and everything sounded good. There were good options for vegetarians (my girlfriend is a veggie). I'm glad we ordered bread (you only get 2 slices though) and the greens side dish (it was just kale, not a selection of greens - but very tasty) as the main meals could have been bigger. The deserts were a good size (in particular the apple crumble). All profit goes to a local charity, which is a good feeling when you pay. I'll look forward to a return visit! :-)

We called in at about 10.30 am for breakfast. The service was quite slow and not particularly friendly. My partner asked for sausage on toast, but we were told that they could not prepare off menu items. She instead ordered the sausage breakfast roll. When it came it was toasted. It transpires that is how they are prepared. I ordered the smashed avocado with poached eggs, which was a little bland, but worthwhile. My americano was a good cup of coffee. After we asked for and received the bill, the staff disappeared for a while. It was a good breakfast, but I'm not convinced we'd call again.

Extremely small selection on their lunch menu when I was there. Basically had to choose between fish and chips or avocado salad. The fish and chips was really well done. But the avocado salad was so blend and possibly the most uninspiring avocado dish I've had. Also found it quite difficult to get the staffs attention that day. Bill took quite awhile to come and had to ask for it twice. Had a better experience (and better food) when I was there last year so maybe I got unlucky.

Went for breakfast. Found portion sizes quite small for the price but still adequate. Coffee was reasonable but no freshly squeezed juice on offer. Lunch menu looked better so would consider going back.

the staff were nice, the vegetable dish were fresh and fantastic. the duck tasted nothing but salt -- avoid it. the best was the pecan pie desert!

Along with some of the other reviews, lots of available tables that we weren’t allowed to sit in because of reservations... at 1030am? It was a Saturday so I could understand it would maybe be busy and it was fine as we had a seat in the bar section. However, were told we couldn’t have a menu to look at as they were at the bar. Staff were a bit standoffish about it. The bar was crowded with people ordering take away and we could not get to the menus to look. So we settled on tea and pastries because that’s what we knew they had. Thankfully the tea and pastries were lovely. I’d come back for those, but maybe at a less busy time.

I enjoyed the place. Food was quite pleasant and healthy but overpriced. Unfortunately got sat next to a group of entitled students who occupied a reserved table, didn't buy a thing, and only moved after 3 requests. Staff were lovely and deserve sainthood.

The food and coffee are both delicious and the staff most obliging, menu choice makes one feel very spoilt , hence the three stars. We waited for 20 min before we got our hot drinks after I chased, and for 45 min before we got our breakfast. A 10% tip is added onto the bill for the slow service. So no other stars.

I don't think there is a way to slice a cake smaller than what I had today. Definitely not worth £4.

Very mixed experience. Lovely staff, but 2 of the 4 meals were very disappointing. The pork chop was 50% fat, and the chicken was the smallest portion I have ever seen. Flavours were also very limited. Duck confit and haddock & chips were tasty.

Came for breakfast with high expectations given the reviews I'd read on here and other sites. But was quite disappointed. Food was bland, coffee was over roasted (tasted burnt). We ordered the avocado toast - which was more of an avocado puree than mash. And had an odd aftertaste that stuck with you after leaving. We also ordered the full Oxford - sausage was great, but everything else was quite mediocre. Poached eggs were solid, yolks not funny at all. And the beans I had expected to be amazing were disappointing given they were cooked for over 12 hours. Maybe dinner or lunch is more their thing, but breakfast is definitely not worth it.

Lost good reputation due to stressed out management. This used to be a really nice place for breakfast and lunch. But it appears to give priority to mismanaged table reservations, kitchen cutting corners on food quality and presentation over hospitality. If you don’t have a reservation, you’ll be told there is no room, as they must keep tables empty 45 min. before they are reserved, but to the left there is an entire room for open seating with sharing large tables, as well as a few bar chairs around the till. You must order food and pay for it at the till, they will still bring it to your place. Noone tells you that, as staff is too nervously running around. I ended up eating eggs fiorentine at the till: cold, stale bread, tiny amount of cold spinach, a few drops of hollandaise over cold poached eggs. Coffee is still good. Comments are met with matching rude, adolescent attitude of ‘I could care less to hear you’... Sad!! Plus this place is no longer doing dinner!!😰

Nice place, went after a recommendation, sadly they couldn't accommodate the two of us for a coffee and croissant at any of the 7 tables that were free as they were being held back for anyone who might like a hot food for lunch....it was 11am. Would have been 1 star but the pastry was very good apparently, coffee was ok and the hot choc wasn't warm enough.

Dissapointed ...reviews looked good and menu looked nice but food disappointing for the price. There was a 20 minute wait for food which we were okay with but took almost 45 mins before it came. I had avocado on sourdough with poached eggs. Eggs were nice but smallest pieces of sourdough and hardly any avocado. People were being turned away for breakfast from 10am onwards.. .seemed harsh on a sunday morning? Shan't go again.

Twice I have been here at around 3pm and both times I have been ignored repeatedly by staff, or had later arrivals' orders taken in front of mine. Lots of staff milling around but nobody paying any attention if they're not waiting tables or explaining why things are delayed. Perhaps this is a shift switch over but it's handled very poorly. Took me 45 mins after being seated before coffee and a (delicious) brownie arrived and coffee was near cold. Nice surroundings, poor service.

We went there to get some coffee and a cake/pastry. The coffee took something like 15 minutes to arrive at the table. The coffee was alright. The pastry was dry. The brownie quite nice- very sweet. Overall a bit disappointing.

had high expectations due to the perceived reputation, well-sourced food and attractive interior - however i was let down. the food generally was trying too hard to be ambitious - good ingredients should be complemented with simple dishes - instead, beautiful produce was ruined such as the lamb chop, which was paired with an (under cooked) risotto and (what appeared to be) Blue Stilton - floor staff were ok.

All the public hype and reviews from reputable publishers started my experience on a high but ended on a crashing low. The food was bland, stale and expensive from the summer lunch menu. The service was very poor as well, with a waiter who seemed like he hated his job and another who forgets basic requests yet they still charged a service fee.

Had high hopes as heard good things about this place. My fiancé and I were going Christmas shopping on Saturday and decided to try this place in the morning. On entering it looked like we may have to wait to be seated but nobody came after about a minute so we walked in to the right to seat ourselves. We were stopped by a member of staff and when we asked for a table for 2 for coffee, were told “you order coffee on the other side”. Okay, so we walk to the other side where there are no tables available (there were numerous tables in the first room) and waited 5 mins to be asked for our order before being told there’s a ten minute wait for coffees. Nobody asked if we planned on eating or even wanted/needed a table, no apologies for the service, just blank expressions. Ended up leaving disappointed and put us in a bad mood.

Went to TSK for lunch with high expectations, but unfortunately both the food and the service were disappointing. Food came late, drinks were forgotten, and portions were small. The menu apparently was changed at the last minute and servers were not aware of the contents of dishes. The braised lamb was neither cheap nor tasty. I would recommend going somewhere else.