66a - Oxford

Six of us, including an eight year old child, had Sunday lunch at Restaurant 66A in March 2013. The service was excellent and the food was delicious. The crab, crayfish and prawn cocktail was copious and very good as was the wild mushroom filo tart for starters. We had the lamb and beef for main courses both which we can recommend. For desert, we treated ourselves to the warm chocolate and hazelnut brownie and sticky toffee pudding, which were both excellent.

The atmosphere felt quite outdated, resembling a hotel catering primarily to seniors. The waiter was able to provide details about the wine selection. While the menu was somewhat limited, the quality of the food was quite good.

We're Friday night. the place was quiet. I ordered a cabernets. from South Africa, but I got one from Chile, it was cheaper, but not the one I ordered. the starters took well 10/12 minutes without letting us know what was going on. the main course came directly after the conclusion or the first court. the bark fillet of my wife was too much grilled, a bitter taste was discovered. we had no dessert. the headkeeper was nice, professional, smiling. the young waiter was shy, he needs a little more confidence to improve his service.

A group of eight of us had dinner here on a reasonably quiet night. Despite it not being very busy the service was pretty terrible. We were seated nearly 20 minutes before anyone asked if we would like drinks. Then they forgot half our drinks order and had to be reminded twice before we finally got our last drink a long while later. Food was hit and miss; vegetarian main course (the only option) was dry and boring. We won't be returning.

The food was quite well priced but nothing special didn't really seem worth the walk out of the city centre. We had some lovely wine though.