Pub Grub in Oxford
Dining in Oxford
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£The pub where the Inklings once met (Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and others)
Pub Grub Tours
3h | from £39.99
Our tours cost marginally more than competitors, because our group sizes are considerably smaller. We average 2-6 persons only on tours.
Enjoy a guided 3-hour walking tour of Oxford and explore its city streets at night. Visit a handful of local pubs and learn the stories and urban legends behind them while socializing with others at the two or three historic pubs we visit. This tour offers a social night out in Oxford while you hear stories about local students and their antics, learn urban legends, discover the favorite hangouts of famous alumni, and pass the famous university at night.
Get to know more about Oxford and its drinking culture on a 3-hour guided walking tour of the city's pubs.
Our tours cost marginally more than competitors, because our group sizes are considerably smaller. We average 2-6 persons only on tours.
This tour is a nighttime social event as well as a guided walking tour, and it happens to visit some pubs but it is not a pub crawl, nor is it specifically about the pubs. Instead, you will hear about some of the more raucous student antics stories and urban legends, plus the history of the famous university town.
Find out which pubs Bill Clinton and Inspector Morse liked to spend time in, and which pub is reputed to have more brain cells per square inch than any other pub in England! Then enjoy a complimentary drink at one of the bars.
Oxford's colleges are closed at night, but you will pass by many of them on your route. The pubs that you visit are subject to change, but are also open to negotiation, so if you have any preferences simply inform your tour guide.
The default start time for this tour is 5pm. Alternative start times may be available but not guaranteed, however please make known your preference at the time of booking.
2h | from £12.00
This walking tour applies Oxford thinking to drinking and gives you an insight into the fun history of beer and the unique historic pubs dating back to 1242. Oxford drinking traditions will be explained along with why a pub has over 4,000 ties on the walls!This walking tour provides a fun spin on Oxford pub tours, where you will visit some of the oldest pubs in Britain and learn their history, as well as the history of ale itself, including how beer has been blessed by Catholic popes, built the pyramids of Egypt, developed technology, and ultimately, saved the world. Like all aspects of British history, a wealth of tradition and old fashioned customs render these pubs and their stories as rich and unpredictable as the drink itself.
Don’t know where to find the best Oxford pubs down Oxford’s quiet, winding roads and alleyways? This tour takes you around the best traditional Oxford pubs around the city centre, visiting some of the oldest pubs in England. During the tour your guide will provide you with an insight into “real ale”, how it is made, and how this process has changed over time. Your guide will also include the important quirky aspect of its history, talking about some of the bizarre rituals attached to its consumption.
No history of ale can be complete without talking about where we drink it. During the Oxford pub tours your guide will make sure to visit Oxford pubs with the sort of medieval architecture you would expect. The stories attached to the development of these pubs are as diverse and rich as the history of the town itself. The tour also includes stories surrounding a few drunken episodes of famous graduates.
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The pub where the Inklings once met (Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and others)
Our tours cost marginally more than competitors, because our group sizes are considerably smaller. We average 2-6 persons only on tours.
Enjoy a guided 3-hour walking tour of Oxford and explore its city streets at night. Visit a handful of local pubs and learn the stories and urban legends behind them while socializing with others at the two or three historic pubs we visit. This tour offers a social night out in Oxford while you hear stories about local students and their antics, learn urban legends, discover the favorite hangouts of famous alumni, and pass the famous university at night.
Get to know more about Oxford and its drinking culture on a 3-hour guided walking tour of the city's pubs.
Our tours cost marginally more than competitors, because our group sizes are considerably smaller. We average 2-6 persons only on tours.
This tour is a nighttime social event as well as a guided walking tour, and it happens to visit some pubs but it is not a pub crawl, nor is it specifically about the pubs. Instead, you will hear about some of the more raucous student antics stories and urban legends, plus the history of the famous university town.
Find out which pubs Bill Clinton and Inspector Morse liked to spend time in, and which pub is reputed to have more brain cells per square inch than any other pub in England! Then enjoy a complimentary drink at one of the bars.
Oxford's colleges are closed at night, but you will pass by many of them on your route. The pubs that you visit are subject to change, but are also open to negotiation, so if you have any preferences simply inform your tour guide.
The default start time for this tour is 5pm. Alternative start times may be available but not guaranteed, however please make known your preference at the time of booking.
This walking tour provides a fun spin on Oxford pub tours, where you will visit some of the oldest pubs in Britain and learn their history, as well as the history of ale itself, including how beer has been blessed by Catholic popes, built the pyramids of Egypt, developed technology, and ultimately, saved the world. Like all aspects of British history, a wealth of tradition and old fashioned customs render these pubs and their stories as rich and unpredictable as the drink itself.
Don’t know where to find the best Oxford pubs down Oxford’s quiet, winding roads and alleyways? This tour takes you around the best traditional Oxford pubs around the city centre, visiting some of the oldest pubs in England. During the tour your guide will provide you with an insight into “real ale”, how it is made, and how this process has changed over time. Your guide will also include the important quirky aspect of its history, talking about some of the bizarre rituals attached to its consumption.
No history of ale can be complete without talking about where we drink it. During the Oxford pub tours your guide will make sure to visit Oxford pubs with the sort of medieval architecture you would expect. The stories attached to the development of these pubs are as diverse and rich as the history of the town itself. The tour also includes stories surrounding a few drunken episodes of famous graduates.
