Mowgli Street Food in Oxford

25 mins for the drink to arrive, so not off to a great start. Seem to be a shortage of staff (mothers day) our greeter disappeared and we appeared to have been forgotten. Then Ben came to the table as noted we were still waiting for food to arrive. He looked after us from then on despite running around serving lots of other tables. Food was amazing as ever but more staff needed. This restaurant needs more Ben's!

I recently visited Mowgli restaurant for the first time, and hoping for a pleasant dining experience, but unfortunately, the poor service made it one of the most frustrating meals I’ve had in a long time.

We had a lovely time Mowgli restaurant, a fantastic opportunity to meet Anca Bulea , which she was making a perfect dinner for us , good food and lovely people including the environment as well .

The food just wasn’t very nice, my girlfriend didn’t eat anything and what I ate I didn’t really enjoy. For £75 for two as well is very expensive. Mowgli’s looks pretty but the food just isn’t that good

Went for Mother’s Day, very indifferent service . Ordered a starter - they had run out of- a different one was set down on the table when we told them we hadn’t ordered they took it away and then another waiter came and plonked on the table . By that time was so hungry - we just ate it. The mains tasted ultra processed like it came out of a jar and not made fresh.food was lukewarm/cold, curries were sweet. Puri was not cooked - was soggy and soaked in oil. Very disappointed and can’t understand the review saying food was good.

Atmosphere was amazing and was incredible. I’d like to thank Anga for going above and beyond ensure we enjoyed our meal. Would recommend Mowgli to everyone!

We had an amazing time at Mowgli, and Anca went above and beyond to ensure we had a 5 start service. The food and drinks were lovely and the atmosphere was just perfect! Would definitely recommend!!!!

Really good food and the waitress Anca is very friendly and amazing. 🤩🤩🤩

Fantastic food, my waitress Charlotte was absolutely amazing and very accommodating. Top level service!

Had such a good experience at Mowgli in Oxford. Our server Anca was absolutely brilliant! Thoroughly recommend to anyone looking for a bite in Oxford. The swing seats are a plus!

Love it here - great atmosphere and helpful and friendly staff, Anca, got us a seat on the swings!

Always a wonderful time at Mowgli’s - great food and atmosphere! Excellent service from Anca.

Very good service by Oliva, looked after my family, well done.

Olivia has been great from the get go!

Fantastic atmosphere and top service from Oliva, who was great throughout our meal and time here. Will highly recommend

Great time out with family for my birthday. Olivia was extremely helpful ☺️

Charlotte was very nice and the food great!

Thanks for the food. And thanks for the great service, Charlotte and team!

Great service, highly recommended.

Anca was an amazing waitress and a superb host for your restaurant. The food was tasty and will definitely recommend to friends and family thank you. A perfect Mother’s Day present x

Anca, had amazing service and was very attentive with the food order. Amazing wait staff and made the visit outstanding. Worth her weight in gold!

Lovely service from anca and delicious food

Great service from Anca , would recommend.

Lovely food great service from Anca

Came for a meal for my birthday, was served by Anca - great food and even better service. Super friendly!!!!!!!!

Really great food and atmosphere! Excellent service by Anca.

Anca was great and made us feel very welcome!

Amazing food Anca was very attentive all in all a great experience

Anca was an amazing hostess, food was great and we'll definitely come back again!

Amazing food and service, especially Anca, who was extremely friendly and helpful

Anca was fab - super helpful. Food was amazing.

Love it here. Food is great (chat bombs are amazing). Our waitress, Charlotte, was super :)

Charlotte was a great waitress. Lovely food and atmosphere. Well worth a visit

The food was lovely and our waitress Charlotte was very attentive.

I would not recommend this place if you're craving for some good Indian food because they aren't even close to Indian flavors at all. They name the dish butter chicken which isn't the butter chicken served in other Indian restaurants in the UK, forget about the ones in India. The food is mostly bland, and sweet and here I'm not talking about making the food spicy because I do understand that the majority is intolerant of the chilli but I do believe the food can be made better with spices other than chilli. Additionally, the staff was not very polite, they were doing the job like a favour.

Food was lovely and Anca was great with her service!

The food was amazing. Anca was very friendly and helpful. We will definitely be back.

Anca was extremely friendly, and pleasant to be around.

Anca provided very good service and was extremely polite

Amy welcomed us well. Beautiful view and good atmosphere!

Great food as usual, exception service by Charlotte. tiday.

Great service by Anca and great food. 5 stars, would recommend!

Popped in for some small bites to eat and drinks and our waitress Anca was excellent, great service. Thank you

Great food, and great service by anca

Delicious food and lovely atmosphere; Charlotte our server was great.

Great service from Charlotte! Food amazing as always

As ever delicious food and drinks and very efficient server Olivia. Highly recommend Mowgli Oxford

Wonderful service and delicious food, our waitress Charlotte was attentive and very welcoming

Second visit to Mowgli and it was excellent both times. Great food and excellent cocktails. Our server Charlotte was great. Will be back a third time.

We had the most splendit experience on Mowgli. Yesterday, despite not having a reservation and the place being full, Anca managed to find us a table. She was also our waitress and provided service beyond expectations, with great attention to detail even though she was very busy. Great food as always . Anca is a superstar - thank you so much!

The best place to eat in Westgate. The service was fast, good atmosphere, excellent food. The waitress name was Anca. Very polite and friendly. Me and my family we will be back soon. Highly recommended to everyone. Thank you!

Such an amazing experience going to Mowgli, the food is fantastic, the atmosphere is just so wonderful plus top service from Charlotte, always making sure we had everything we needed. Highly recommend and will definitely come again

I LOVE the atmosphere here, and our server Olivia was a delight! Can't wait to go back!

Food was amazing service matched as staff wer very friendly helpfull & new there stuff will defnetly go back againe maybe in a larger groop as very good food price service & atmosphere I Highley recomend was amazing

Come here for the frost time with family today . Food was amazing ,The Service matched and the manager on shift couldn’t do enough for us . Thanks guys we will definitely be returning and recommending to friends and family .

recommend the butter chicken, real nice dish. Shout out to Anca she’s cool

such great food and service from amy! cant wait to come back

Amazing food had such a great time with my family! Shout out to Olivia!

Amazing food and great service from charlotte! thank you to all of the mowgli team

The food was great and Anca was Amazing!

Great service from Olivia! highly recommend mowgli and it's beautiful setting! ✨️

I've been many times before but this was a bit disappointing. Food was a little bland, I think the expansion of the chain has dropped quality. Service was bad too. They squeezed us into the last table, which was nice of them. But then left us waiting 40 mins to take plates away and another 15 minutes for the already-ordered dessert. Then we had to ask for the bill twice and still go up to pay. All whilst we were the only people in the place.

I can not rave about this place enough. The service is off the scale. The food is LUSH. BIG shout out to Tommy. I met him in The Charlotte St branch in london. He remembered me. Top top friendly professional service. Also got to meet one of the chefs who they are sending to India to see their charity work. Thanks Tommy. Thanks All.

Watered down food which isn't even fresh. A disgrace to indian food

Food was delicious 😋 more than enough food on the sharing menu. A great touch having the chef choose the dishes. I will be buying fairy lights for my own house - it made the venue really tranquil. I would recommend The Sherbet if you are driving - lovely warmth of ginger through sharp raspberry and lime - very refreshing 😁

We had the most splendid meal and a simply wonderful time at Oxford’s Mowgli restaurant today. Excellent food, a really special meal. Special thanks for the fantastic service we received from Anca - gold star!!

Really good food and service. Amazing service from Oliwia from start to finish of our dinner.

Had been on my list for some time and finally managed to visit on 7th March. Lovely walking in to swing seating and lights everywhere, very inviting. As our 1st visit we decided to go for the street food sharer. We ordered a couple of mocktails which were lovely, Mowgli twister and The sherbert I think they were. The yogurt chat bombs came out 1st, we were advised to pop in the mouth whole, quite a mouthful but the taste explosion was amazing definitely my favourite dish. Bit confusing that they send them out as 5 pieces on a 2 person sharing platter? Then came the sharing roulette, we opted for meat and the gunpowder chicken and the Fenugreek kissed fries and Roti breads. Not massive portions but plenty for us. Up until this point we had been enjoying the good food and lovely atmosphere, however this soon changed as in came a group of males, who had clearly been drinking and became very loud and unfortunately spoilt the mood. We waited for our ice cream, which very rich and luxurious but we decided we couldn't listen to them any longer and went up to pay the bill and exit. It really ruined what had looked to be a lovely experience. I did discuss with the waiter on paying the bill, who apologised and was very sympathetic. I'd expect that kind of conduct in a sports bar during a football match not in a nice restaurant. I must also point out that my mowgli award points were not added for my visit after promising he would make sure they were. Overall a lovely restaurant serving delicious food that was unfortunately spoilt by loud lager loutish behaviour. Such a shame

Atmosphere and Service are really good however the food lets them down, we went in for a late lunch, ordered the chickpea curry and fish curry, the chickpea curry was very very bland and watery, we had to ask for salt as it had no seasoning. The fish curry was ridiculously sweet, almost like a bowl of caramelised onions, would not recommend if your looking for an authentic indian.

Food too expensive for the taste but it's fine. The atmosphere is good and the swing seats were pretty cool. I had a chilli mango margarita which was great. I had super green curry which wasn't great. Mum had house chicken which tasted really good. Angry bird was good, the coleslaw was okay. Would return to try something different on the menu.

Loved every thing about this restaurant, the decor, the staff, the menu and the food - oh my days, never tasted food like it - it was an explosion of flavours when in your mouth

Great food as always, consistent with the high standard at all Mowglis I have been to (9 so far). The view from the roof garden terrace is a real bonus ! Service was excellent, restaurant was very popular on a Sunday afternoon. Highly recommended !

The food is on another level. I've eaten Indian and Asian food in many countries over the years. This restaurant exceeds them all. Absalutely superb I cannot recommend this place more highly Thank you for a fantastic dining experience

Butter chicken, house chicken curry were good along with puri and roti. Chat was crispy and tangy.

I came with 2 friends and the server said they are booked and busy. The entire place was empty.

Food was very mediocre in taste. Lacking in spice (flavour, not hotness). Felt bland. Serving sizes are also quite small. Our waitress was great but getting hold of staff is almost impossible. Literally zip in and out. Less of a critique on staff (understandably working hard), and moreso on their numbers. Perhaps they were short-staffed that day or management needs to hire more.

Food as great, service was a little slow however. Would definitely recommend the lamb chop fries.

Really nice Indian. If you are looking for a twist on what we’d call Indian food this place is it. You won’t find lamb rogan josh or chicken tikka masala on the menu here. What you do find is very interesting dishes that are full of flavour and feel like more authentic food. Prices are fair for its location and the service was good.

Good: Nice atmosphere Friendly staff Pretty fairy lights Bad: Dishes are too sweet. Lack of vegetarian options (there’s daal, chickpea curry and paneer. Where are the actual vegetables? Not one in sight). Holy Cow - a poor potato’s recreation of the South African bunny chow. Chai - with a tea bag, really?! Finally, it’s 2025 why are people still writing “Chai Tea” and “Roti Breads” on the menu?! Both words literally mean the same thing. It’s not Indian food.

Delicious meal and a special mention for Claire, our waitress who was very helpful in recommending dishes. Only minor points preventing 5 stars: Ambience is a bit noisy for conversations. Maybe it would benefit from some acoustic padding on the ceiling. The metal serving dishes and plates don't seem to help keep the food warm. I think it would be better to have candle-lit food-warmers on the table.

Wow what can I say. First time My husband and myself has ate at mowgli in Westgate Oxford it was amazing such a beautiful looking restaurant and the food was amazing, the flavours I have never experienced before and price was excellent would highly recommend it

My first time eating Indian street food and it was great fun. The decor is pretty with lots of fairy lights, the food was gorgeous too. Portion sizes are not huge so big eaters may want two mains, but that’s okay as there is quite a choice. Really lovely experience.

Food wasn’t great. Chat bombs were soggy and had a strange after taste. The curry in a loaf of bread was disgusting - a soggy loaf and just a wrong novelty dish. Some waiting staff looked miserable. Rather go to a traditional Indian restaurant where they don’t palm you off with novelty dishes. Not cheap either!

Amazing service, visited for dinner last night and couldn't have asked for more.

We had a great night. Ordered the £25 street food selection, every dish was superb - flavours were rich and varied, quality of the meat was high and the drink was gorgeous (Cinnamon cola), you do get a lot for your money. One of the best curries we have ever had. The service was fantastic too, my partner spilled her drink after drinking half of it and they replaced it free of charge and even gave us more bread. Genuinely a 10/10 and we will definitely come back.

To be honest wouldn't even give one star! Took my family out for my daughters birthday,table booked in advance. When we arrived 10mins early,clear to see they had overbooked. Shoehorned into a booth that would comfortably seat four but there were 7 of us. Shown to table,menus just placed on end of table,has to be one of the most unfriendlness welcomes I have ever experienced. I complained to the Manager but was totally disinterested in what I had to say,no customer service skills at all. Food wasn't great very bland and not warm. £177 to experience sub standard service. As a family we have attended many times but this will definitely be our last visit. Not the best night out to celebrate my daughters birthday and put a dampener on her evening.

Not your normal Indian food menu, but still a good choice. The staff were very friendly and attentive, the food was delicious. Highly recommended.

Wow we didn't know where to eat in Oxford today. Didn't want the usual burger chips ect. So browsed around the top floor of the Westgate. Stumbled on Mowgli. Omg the staff were amazing and couldn't do enough for us. The atmosphere was absolutely beautiful. Didn't know what to expect with street food, my husband is very traditional with his food but he was blown away with all the different tastes. It was one of the best meals out we have had in along time . We was really lucky to get a table as it recommended to book in advance. Prices are great too. Highly recommended.

This is a beautifully styled restaurant on a rooftop terrace in Oxford. We had a lovely warm welcome from a member of staff and were shown to our table and explained how the food ordering and delivery worked. Our drinks were delivered promptly - a delicious mocktail The sherbet and a Cobra. We ordered the sharing menu (way too much for two and we have big appetites). The chat bombs arrived first - not my favourite dish and probably wouldn’t order again but glad I tried them. Then we had fenugreek kissed fries and gunpowder chicken brought out - both tasty but were only warm and would have been better if heated up more. Then the tiffin box was delivered which had temple Dahl, house chicken, Agra ginger chicken, basmati rice and roti. All very hot and tasty although would have preferred not to have two chicken dishes but we knew that was a possibility when we ordered. All in all a good experience and with a couple of tweaks mentioned would have been excellent.

Wow were we disappointed! We ordered five dishes to share and without exception the chef had gone overboard with the spices. Eating the tamarind fries was like eating concentrated tamarind, and the curries were equally one-dimensional, with far too much cumin in one, and far too much tamarind in the other. No subtlety whatsoever. And all this while sitting on rock hard wooden benches. Boo!

The vibes and lighting was beautiful but unfortunately the food was not up to the standards as a good Indian restaurant espically for the price that you pay.

lovely atmosphere good food and nice service would go again

Such an aesthetic place, the decor was on spot the lights were so cute and the food was so photo worthy. If you want a cute photo opportunity mowgli is the place. The food was delicious, we ordered four plates to split between the two of us, because portion sizes are quite small in general-this is something to keep in mind when it comes to price as each plate is around 8-11 pounds. So if you don’t mind spending that bit extra it’s fine and I’d say it’s worth it as the food is so incredibly tasty and really hit the spot for me. I had the mowgli twister as I drink it was also very nice and I’d say very reasonably priced. The only snag in the road here for me is the service, we ordered all our food together but the first plate came out 15 minutes before the rest and our drinks came out after the food which was slightly annoying but these are just little bug bares that didn’t detract too much from the experience. We did feel slightly rushed out once we finished our food, which was a tad frustrating as it wasn’t like the restaurant was busy. But all in all the staff were pleasant. One thing to note if you want the aesthetic swing seats-DONT BOOK. You can only get those seats if you are a walk in of two.

The most beautiful interior ever!!!

Beautiful decor and really friendly service, the food is nothing to write home about though- the brownie was a little burnt and the curries were lacking depth. Nice rice and the ‘angry bird’ chicken had a nice flavour.

Amazing food and service, had a really good time. Definitely recommended.

Great service and atmosphere. I've tried many different dishes and they all taste amazing.

Lovely place to have dinner ! Very accommodating

The food was exquisite, and the staff brought a friendly atmosphere.

Great dining experience very friendly staff and food was sublime as usual would highly recommend