Oxfordshire Trip Overview
PRIVATE GROUP TOURS. Enjoy sampling 4 or 5 of Oxford’s best or unique local food and drink market stalls on this private Oxford food and drink tasting walking tour and combines food tastings with a sightseeing tour while your guide introduces you to the top Oxford sights. This tour usually always visits Oxford cheese company and/or the Liquid Deli, which distills all kinds of delicious alcoholic drinks. Other shops or stalls vary.
2020 Covid19 notice:
We will see many colleges & famous sights on the route and we will include £2.50 per person entry to the Divinity school at the Bodleian library, as and when that venue may be open. However, all the other university venues and colleges are now closed with exception of Magdalen college. If you wish to visit inside Magdalen, we will include it but you’ll need to pay £6 per person entry fee to the college on arrival on the day.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Food Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
PRIVATE GROUP TOURS. Enjoy sampling 4 or 5 of Oxford’s best or unique local food and drink market stalls on this private Oxford food and drink tasting walking tour and combines food tastings with a sightseeing tour while your guide introduces you to the top Oxford sights. This tour usually always visits Oxford cheese company and/or the Liquid Deli, which distills all kinds of delicious alcoholic drinks. Other shops or stalls vary.
2020 Covid19 notice:
We will see many colleges & famous sights on the route and we will include £2.50 per person entry to the Divinity school at the Bodleian library, as and when that venue may be open. However, all the other university venues and colleges are now closed with exception of Magdalen college. If you wish to visit inside Magdalen, we will include it but you’ll need to pay £6 per person entry fee to the college on arrival on the day.
Stop At: Oxford, UK
This tour also introduces various Oxford city & university heritage sights while sampling foods from local market traders & cosmopolitan food stands. On Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Oxford has a food market with food stalls by locals exhibiting cuisine from around the world- indeed 1 in 7 Oxford residents is themselves a foreign resident. Our tour also visits England’s oldest Covered Market which is a very attractive venue and includes an award winning artisan gelato & chocolate shop and our very own Oxford Cheese Company.
Stop At: Oxford Covered Market, Market Street, Oxford OX1 3DZ England
Please bring face mask to enter inside this venue. We visit several traders inside the historic Covered Market.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Radcliffe Camera, Radcliffe Square, Oxford OX1 4AJ England
We introduce various famous city and university sights and this is one of them.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Bridge of Sighs, New College Ln., Oxford OX1 3BL England
We introduce various famous city and university sights and this is one of them.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Bodleian Library Bodleian Library Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG England
Where & when open, we will include the £2.50 entry per person to visit inside the Divinity school which is a glorious Harry Potter film site at the Bodleian library. The rest of the library is not open to guided tours
Duration: 25 minutes
Stop At: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ England
We introduce various famous city and university sights and this is one of them.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, St. Marys Church High Street, Oxford OX1 4BJ England
We introduce various famous city and university sights and this is one of them.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: Magdalen College, High Street, Oxford OX1 4AU England
Entry to Magdalen college – where CS Lewis taught- will be included on this tour subject to if you agree to pay the £6 per person entry fee on arrival to the college on the day. Please make known to the guide, if you wish to visit this college or not.
Duration: 45 minutes
Sample Menu
• Chinese dumplings at the market – Meat or vegetarian options
• Greek starters such as pork souvlaki at the market – Greek starters such as pork souvlaki at the market
• Venezuelan street food arepas (gluten free style bit like Mexican burrito) – Venezuelan street food arepas (gluten free style bit like Mexican burrito)
• Indian curry at the street market – Curry is so diverse and of course is actually the favourite food polled of Brits!
• Scones and tea or coffees – Scones is one option for anyone wanting a taste of British baking, sitting at the Vaults or outside in the gardens of the University Church.
• Oxford artisan cheese such as ‘Oxford Blue’ – Oxford Cheese Company in the Covered Market
