The Black Horse - West Oxfordshire

Christmas Works Party.. What can I say other than a big Thank You.. Fantastic County Pub full of Christmas spirit, Excellent food, very tasty and a good amount of food on the plate. Great Team serving and manning the Bar, Festive cheer continued into the evening.. would recommend

We opted to all have the same, 3 roast beef dinners, the beef was lovely but all the veg was undercooked, roast potatoes were hard in the middle, carrots were basically raw and the yorkshires were stodgy, and the worst part was the fishy cauliflower cheese !! Not only was the food pretty poor the service was no better! Overall a very poor experience.

The Black Horse is a real gem. Lively, warm, friendly and fun. Luke, the manager, was welcoming and a joy. For dinner, we had steaks, which were superb, and the house wine was spectacular. We got chatting to some locals after our meal. Kyle, the South African, was so nice to me and my husband and really made us feel like part of the family. We will be back for sure once we're back in Oxfordshire.

We enjoyed our meal here the food was good and the staff attentive. For a quietish meal in the restaurant though, there was a telly rigged up showing the rugby and the volume was extremely loud which clouded our experience as we struggled to hear ourselves talk. The bar got very busy towards the end of our meal, to the point where the staff rather gave up paying attention to the diners and we had to fight our way to the busy bar through people (loud music by this point) and ask if we could pay as we'd been waiting ages for someone to come back and take our money.

It was OK. It wasn 't bad as such. Staff OK, bit slow service wise. Not as attentive as one would expect. Local 'yoof ' drinkers seem to be well catered for. Food OK. Mostly. Prawn Chorizo starters tasty but very minimalist. Chorizo is not that expensive. Mains Fish Chips good (MASSIVE chips ! . Chicken with Cajun fries/chips chicken PLAIN fries/chips. No Cajun spice/seasoning at all. Someone either forgot or more than one person (chef server doesn 't know the menu. Sausage mash very disappointing. I hate to say it but really very bland/poor sausages (2 thin chipolata type/looking and similar to those you might get for a greasy spoon breakfast , mash was just OK but dry, very little gravy (as in VERY LITTLE and fried onions were, er, 6 pieces as a token gesture. You would have been better not putting those 6 measly pieces on the mash as it looked like you had either run out or were simply skimping. So for food 1+1/2+1/2+1/2 2 1/2 out of 4 maximum I 'm sorry to say.