Ken Chapman

Review of Victoria Arms, Oxford

We love this setting and have been a number of tim...

We love this setting and have been a number of times. But food is average. We usually let it slide because it's pleasant sitting there but yesterday we ordered the vegetable mains with cashew salad. The vegetable mixture was so spicy one of us couldn't physically eat it (nose streaming, etc), we asked for some yoghurt to mix with it, there was none. And the salad had one cashew nut in it. Very, very poor. How hard is it to serve fish and chips? Apparently too hard for the Vic Arms. Fish was tired and dry hidden in the batter, chips were dry and tasteless. Really overpriced and underwhelming. Of the 9 mains we ordered around the table, not one looked like you'd want to eat it. Very disappointing.