November is packed full of some really exciting pop-up dinners here in Oxfordshire celebrating autumnal, seasonal fare, whether it’s plant-based. Here’s our pick of the best!
Witney’s Three Horseshoes’ November Comfort Food Series kicks off tonight (November 1) with a series of designated evenings by head chef Matt Loughton featuring all your favourite comfort food READ OUR RECENT REVIEW HERE – starting with pie night and moving onto burgers, sausage rolls and scotch eggs, a. sausage fest and fakeaway night. BOOK HERE
The White Hart, Fyfield – Wednesday Dinner Club – (Nov 1,8,15,22 and 29) is hugely popular and often sells out, mainly due to its great pricing £49 for two with a bottle of wine) and its weekly changing set menu. Tonight that consists of roasted butternut squash wedges with a blue cheese crumble, Bucksum leaves, candied hazelnuts and a hazelnut vinaigrette. For mains it’s good old fish and chips with garden peas and tartare sauce, and millionaire shortbread with salted caramel ice cream for pud. If you miss tonight there’s always next week! BOOK HERE
Table 13 at Summertown Wine Bar, Friday November 3. Our favourite new collaboration see head gastronome supremo Georgia Gallacher producing four seasonal plant based dishes from her extensive repertoire which will be accompanied by four wines from the wine connoisseurs Grape Minds who run the bar. BOOK HERE
FIRST SILVIE SUPPER, Iffley Road – AUTUMN, Friday, 3 November, 7.30pm-10pm. Enjoy a multi-choice seasonal set menu reflecting the harvest season; all served in an informal communal family-style while you mix and mingle with your fellow diners. £44 per head. book here
If you are more of an early bird then try the Silvie Brunch Club on Sunday, 5 November from 10am-2pm for an ever changing menu celebrating the season’s ingredients plus Silvie’s infamous cinnamon buns and cakes. MORE INFO HERE
The Perch, Binsey, Game Night Dinner – Friday November 17. Always an elegant and convivial affair, enjoy Cremant on arrival, then a Wild Rabbit & Smoked Ham Hock Terrine with poached quince, pickled morels & toasted cobnuts, followed by Pan-fried Goose Breast, Black Cabbage & Pancetta with brandy, green peppercorn & thyme cream sauce, Cotswold Venison Loin, Spelt Grain, Braised Leeks and pickled black berries, red wine & juniper sauce and to finish a Dark Chocolate & Caramel Fudge Cake with dark chocolate ganache, poached cherries in red wine. £85 PER GUEST with wine flight BOOK HERE
The Yurt at Nicholsons, Friday November 24 – Anyone looking for a novel night out should book the next dinner experience here, this time celebrating all things autumn. Expect a wonderfully sustainable menu composed by talented head chef Andrew Carr who promises innovative twists on autumnal favourites READ OUR REVIEW OF THE LAST YURT DINING EXPERIENCE HERE Expect canapés and three courses with wine chosen by Woodthorpe Wines for £78 per head. BOOK HERE
The Milkshed, Weston On The Green – Pop up supper Friday November 24. Five courses for £60 a head. Think beetroot carpaccio with Rosary goats cheese, slow braised ox cheek or portobello mushroom with boulanger potatoes, cavelo nero, chilli, garlic and anchovy dressing and honey baked celeriac, then a rosemary pavlova with caramelised white chocolate, cranberry compote and Chantilly. Plus an aged Comte cheese with quince chutney and oat digestives, tea and coffee. Always a great night out. BOOK HERE
