Black Bull in Cherwell

The service and atmosphere in the Black Bull is second to none. It is run with a fantastic team, and the clientele is first class. A proper drinking pub experience.

Very nice place to visit and very friendly staff and locals good entertainment put on first Friday every month.

What a great proper pub just a good drinking pub no food just sports TV and beer how it should be bar staff freindy dogs welcome too r

Wrongly accused of doing cocaine. Later found out the owner has an issue with drugs and this could have led to our unlawful dismissal of the premises. Please avoid at all costs.

Went in for a drink with a friend, we got refused service after our first round due to “suspected cocaine” being consumed in the toilets because my mate and I went to the toilet very quickly after each other. I am appalled to be accused of something like this as someone who hasn’t even smoked a cigarette in my life. Apparently there was a test done, just after we went in and we were the only ones it could be, but all we did was go to the toilet.

Went in for a drink with a friend, we got refused service after our first round due to “suspected cocaine” being consumed in the toilets because my mate and I went to the toilet very quickly after each other. I am appalled to be accused of something like this as someone who hasn’t even smoked a cigarette in my life. Apparently there was a test done, just after we went in and we were the only ones it could be, but all we did was go to the toilet.

Lovely friendly staff, great atmosphere, sport on. Large selection of beer, love the place

Great pub . Lovely atmosphere, great staff .

One the best ones in kidlinghton I love this pub 💕

Lovely pub, always good laugh, plenty sport good prices. Staff always polite

The tall lanky one provided excellent customer service and wax very knowledgeable about Chilli. I was amazed to find the other two sisters as their laughs were nothing like each other. Nice to see a pub with a juke box but you could do with removing UB40 from it, it's like groundhog day. Great pub, great staff and the outside tv is a great idea just a shame it wasn't working.

First time visit yesterday. Great little pub would definitely go back if I'm in the area.

No food service anymore but nicest staff, lovely banter.

Great service. Food Great. Staff very welcoming . Pub very clean and tidy

Kind and great place. To go to staff are welcomeing and friendly and quick to get you What you would like and lots to Choose From. beer, Ales,ciders,Wines, whiskey's, gins,shots crisps and nuts. Good space, lots of tables.Dog friendly.

Nice pub with a decent atmosphere. Friendly regulars. Good prices. Was good for two evenings out whilst touring. Seems to be the liveliest place in the town!

Very good friendly welcome from all the staff. The food was very good. Lovely little pub. Homemade burger was very nice. Recommend a visit.

Good Old school locals boozer! Cheap and cheerful!

I can't recommend this pub enough the staff are so friendly and make you feel really welcome. Best pub in Kidlington by far.

The best pub I've been to for a while. Excellent, friendly staff and atmosphere.

Free pool on Tuesdays very friendly and welcoming local croud

No food just drink and crisps. Very, very friendly staff. Nice clean bathroom

Good local pub with sky sports.

Friendly and efficient staff. Great jukebox and plenty of screens to watch almost any game you ask for. My favourite pub in Kidlington!

Lovely local pub, friendly bar staff, nice locals and a pool table too. Recommended

great beer and a nice pool table

Best pub in Kidlington incredible great turn around Claire and Tina xx

Brilliant service, considering there was 12 of us in the party. Food was good quality for a reasonable price. They also accept blue light cards. They allowed us to push a couple of tables together to cater for our big party. Will definitely be coming back. Very happy customer :)

Lovely food staff and beer, what more can you ask for.

Lovely pub, nice pub garden lots of parking for free

Great pub now! Had a refurb which it desperately needed. Well worth a visit.

Great atmosphere lovely staff highly reccomend

Really good breakfast, doubling up is well worth it, there isn't a big choice but what they do offer is done so well. I had the veggie version and wasn't left wondering what the weird aftertaste was, my meat eating friends didn't talk for at least 15mins!. They also do a really good cuppa

This is a ,really nice and very attractive pub with a great landlord and landlady and superb staff especially the wonderful Claire who is extremeely caring and welcoming. Thank you, Lana XXX

Never been there before nice place and friendly

So happy to have found this place a short walk from the Roundham Lock on the Oxford Canal, not mentioned in our guide to local places it jolly well should be. A fabulous place, very welcoming not only to four paws, the people in the pub were great, the food excellent and very reasonably priced, a corner with books for folks of all ages and a magnificently cared for garden area. I would strongly recommend a pointer at the Roundham Lock so that other trippers on the canal can find you, if word of mouth helps I did tell everyone we saw on the way back to Lower Heyford!

Really nice place, cozy inside, friendly staff, good option of drinks, been here a few times and will be back :)

Great food. Very polite staff. 👍🏻

Good atmosphere and nice food service very good

Not much to review, I'm afraid. Turned up on a Tuesday afternoon, no food, in fact the chef looked "happy" cleaning the beer lines (I admired his dedication) - I have to say staff v. Friendly and welcoming. A few rummies dotted around. Couldn't help but feel like like I'd joined part of the local beer guzzling elite... this is obviously a suffering drinkers pub. I imagine if I'd have turned up on a Friday night I would have got a real taste of Kidlington - a thought more enticing than the bottle of Hobgoblin I had no option but to consume.

Un lloc molt casolà T'agradarà !!

Nice friendly place. Coping well during lockdown with drinks in beer garden.

A nice pub with good food. and they have a good selection of beers.

Fantastic Sunday dinner. Great price too

Their Sunday dinners are superb and plentiful. Collection was well organised and distanced. Every credit for their massive Yorkshire puddings. Served hot in a good quality take away carton. A choice of 3 meats and a selection of veg and potatoes. The size would easily fill the bigger eaters out there. The only way it could be improved any would be the option of a sponge and custard pudding. I'd have to save that until later in the day though as I was stuffed! I'll be back for another next week and every week after.

What amazing staff at the black bull. We took our special needs granddaughter for a birthday dinner before going to see Santa, and couldn't have been looked after any better in a safe environment. Top place and even better staff. Thankyou.

Fab Takeaway Sunday Roast, great value for money too.All fresh veg, very tasty, plenty of it and the best yorkshire puddings I've tasted in a ling time

Having enjoyed the fantastic Sunday lunch several times before lockdown, my wife and I decided to try out the takeway option. We both had roast beef with all the trimmings and it was fabulous. Really lovely meat, perfectly cooked vegetables, a large yorkshire pudding and lashing of gravy. The presentation was also great, served in large tin foil containers the same size as a dinner plate. I'll definitely be having more takeways during lockdown and look forward to returning to the Black Bull when lockdown ends.

The pub was clean and tidy social distance was great at first as we was just finishing our meal some more people came in in and there was no tables left she said you could share to the customers and come down and sat right next to me me I said that's less than 2 metres they ignored me I'm sat there are we paid the bill and left disgusted I will never go there again

Excellently fry up! Delicious...and kept me going all day!

We have visited this pub on a few occasions,the atmosphere is pleasant staff and landlady easy to talk to and attentive. Prices are affordable and well cooked food which is cooked fresh by a chef that cares about his food.We have liked it so much Christmas lunch is a must. Well worth a visit

Had been told about the Sunday lunches here so we tried it out, I’m glad we did. We arrived and our table had been reserved for us, the Covid measures were very good. We ordered 3 roast lambs and one beef roast dinner, we it came it was piping hot and plenty of it. The vegetables were plentiful too. We would definitely go back.

Good atmosphere and special service

A much improved pub that offers very good home cooked food at a reasonable price with generous portions. The Sunday roast is highly recommended but booking is advised.

The pub itself is much nicer than last time I went in, about a year ago. It seemed dark and unwelcoming despite its refit then. This was a much nicer feel. Disappointing that a venue advertising the eat out to help out scheme has its kitchen closed on Tuesdays though!

Absolute disaster, the manager needs a personal transplant, I had sausages and mash was covered in coriander(overpowering) mash was cold no mushrooms or onions as said on menu. My husband got a plain burger and you could have slapped it of the wall and it would stay intact. We made a complaint and was told to pick the coriander of and the chef had rosettes star but garnishs with coriander and would love our feedback. The other staff were lovely and mortified. Will never be back

Friendly, good value, well prepared for social distancing.

My daughter received a parking charge notice in March 2020 when her friends visited your premises. She agreed to collect them, and waited in your car park until they came out. As she didn’t need to get out of her vehicle, there didn’t seem a need to go through the procedure for paying / or getting exempted, but she has now unfortunately received a hefty £100 parking charge notice. This feel very harsh as she clearly had no intention to mis-use your car park and she and her friends are Kidlington residents and regular customers. She is also a Key Worker, as am I, so find this especially harsh in these difficult times. Once the lockdown is over, we will find it difficult to return to your premises given this harsh and unfair charge!

Put my reg number in and still recieved a fine, was told there was nothing the pub could do.

We popped in for 35 minutes and received £60 parking notice. Ridiculous. We will never go there again and will warn everyone I can!

Me and my girlfriend visited the pub for a drink and found out a week later we had a £60 fine. We arrived when it was dark and couldn't see any sign and to be honest when visiting a pub we didn't expect to pay to park or use a touchpad at the bar. Really unfortunate to get stung like this, disappointing to have a complain about it and not go back.

100% needed to be referbished but it’s nice now

I ordered the BBQ pringles and they where fantastic great presentation perfectly stacked perfect balance of flavour in each bite highly recommend

Let’s hope after the refurbishment and new owners and hopefully new staff this pub will be better. Awful place , known as the drug pub

Play darts for this pub. In desperate need of referb which is happening in a month so I'm told

It's a pub not a food place a very good pub

Top bar man.great pub ..no moaning publican from up the road

Spit & Sawdust , good beer , Sky & BT Sports , loads of screens , internet jukebox !

Where's Dreams are made. Said one of the locals. I started to speak like one of them after a few hours.its not English, Irish, or even piky, but after ever sentence it ended with "boy" Some say that drinking the beer here will bring youth.good fortune & wealth. I have included the picture of the two 63 year old woman. (Jane & sonya) is it a mythical place..... Great staff super fresh ice cold beer "boy" lots of parking for unicorns..🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

Good, old fashioned pub. Probably a relic but well liked by locals

It is what it is! No airs and graces, a drinkers pub!

Very good. Shows football on sky and bt sport

Good range of drinks, prices too high!

This is the madest place ever!! If you just want a genuine beer and a chat your more than welcome xxxxxxxxxxxx

Drinkers pub good beer + some craft beers.also a Chinese eat in or T/away service.looks like the food side has gone.

Nice friendly and cheap local pub. The bad reviews seem to be all about the Chinese takeaway which is neither here or there as the pub doesn't do food! ;-)

Relaxed down to earth English pub without the airs and graces. Enjoyable for a few afternoon drinks in the nice garden.

They cancelled my order on just eat without explanation, so why they bother listing I don't know.

Food cold and not nice noodles smelt and tasted like old dirty oil didn't get the free dish for orders over £30 and waited an hour for delivery won't bother again

As always a very nice and tasty takeaway Well done.

Great food and excellent service. Couldnt ask for more on a Friday evening

Ordered a set meal... On the list it said chicken but received beef?! Apart from that it was really good. Spare ribs were my favourite!

Food was lovely but an item was missing from the order. When I callled the restaurant to ask for it to be delivered I was told 'no problem'. We'be now finished the food an hour after it arrived. Missing order still not here.

Couldn't find a single fault with it for the price. Very tasty, turned up half hour earlier than the stated delivery time. Friendly and helpful staff. I doubt I will order from anyone else in this area.

The food took over an hour to arrive. Originally, it said an expected delivery time of 8:30pm...which then changed to 8:50pm. It finally arrived at 9pm. While we've thoroughly enjoyed the food in the past, the delivery time and the food quality were just not up to scratch this time.

Delivery good, good prices, food arrived hot. However the food was a bit yucky and greasy, and the meat dishes had more filler ingredients than meat.

Good lime and soda, good beer, nice staff.

Came before time provided and free Spring roles - well done

Just cant beat this for ease and value. And the food is fantastic.

Cold, chicken was hard and made me feel ill after.... Very disappointing

Have had quite varied meals from here before but the recent one was just as good as some of the first orders. The only issue we found was that the curry could have done with a little more sauce. Came within an hour and was still quite hot.

Some of the recipes have been changed, and have gone from delicious to vile

Was not impressed. Delivered later than expected, duck was burned ( was like charcoal, sweet and sour sauce was like flavoured water, chips soggy, rice was disgusting and to top it off it was all cold

Food was over 20mins late so water almost hour and a half for our order. Then not all of it came. I rang to discuss the lateness and the staff put the phone down on me 3 times.

Used to order from here quite a lot but seems it's been recently taken over. They didn't get my post code or address correct so the driver was calling me for directions! The food standard has also dropped, chicken pad Thai wasn't cooked evenly and some noodles still pale! Also the curry sauce seems to be getting less in the pot but so water with film of grease on top! Gotten so bad the last few weeks, won't give another shot!

Over an hour to deliver but very good when it finally arrived. Fried rice wasn't full either.

nice food delivery a little slow but it was a saturday night. worth the wait

I order a lot from the Black Bull as they are generally really good but tonight was not up to there usual standard. The food wasnt that warm and the chow mein tasted burnt.

Charged me for delivery even tho they said it was free. Also food was slightly cold

Great people who ho out their way to accomodate my allergies and deliver even when not available. Food fantastic best chinese I had and I and husbandhave tried chineses all over country inc scotland and wales. Really hspy with the people as well as food. Thank you for all your help Claire