Tap Social Movement in Vale of White Horse

---This review was sent to the management email for the venue to avoid public posting, but after receiving no response I am forced to post this here--- My friend and I came to see a comedian as part of the Oxford comedy festival. The positives: - one of the ladies who served us at the bar was very friendly and the gents on the door seemed nice. The negatives: - the venue was incredibly hot; there were no fans whatsoever, and many people complained about how uncomfortable it was inside. I have a condition that makes me sweat excessively at the best of times and the heat inside ruined the show for me. Having some fans running in a warehouse building is not a big ask, and should be common sense. - one of the staff members, who had been very abrupt all night (such as when I asked where the loos were,) took my friend's drink out of his hand unannounced , and without any explanation, and poured it into a different container. My friend was so taken aback that he didn't even know what to say at the time. The employee who did this described himself as "the caretaker" of the bar. - I relayed the problem about the bar being too hot and his response was "fair enough." I didn't want to post this on a Google review because I don't believe in penalising businesses because of one staff member. However, I would suggest some retraining of this particular employee, as he has alienated at least two customers, and I won't be coming back to tap social any time soon.

Great selection of beers from their brewery. Normally plenty of seating but can get busy.

Always a great atmosphere, good range of drinks. Fab events. Great cause. What’s not to like?

A night of loving niceness happened at the Tap Social this weekend. Everyone had a fabulous time dancing to the vinyl selection of SkyLarkin hosting Reggae Redemption. The staff really are a lovely, friendly and positive team of servers who always contribute to making Tap a great place to visit, meet friends, make new ones and have the best time. I look forward to partying with you all again real soon. Thank you so much 💗

Great place for a beer snd/ or gig with friends

Cool funky night out. Hidden gem 💎

Good beer and good times, well worth a visit

Here was our TRX®️ SUMMIT Social Party upstairs with the #trxfamily 🖤💛🍀☺❗

One of my favourite places to go out in Oxford! Had a lovely evening celebrating a friend's birthday.

Lord of fun. The staff is accommodating and cheerful and the food very good. There were 14 of us and everything was delicious. The second round of bloody Marys was surprisingly... sweet (?!?), but it did not matter much by then

Love the Dead Leg Comedy on a Monday night! Never know what you're gonna get but atleast it's metal 🤘

Arrived for a few drinks but was told it was a private function despite it not having been advertised as such on the Tap Social website

Great taproom, good beers, great vibe, really great purpose

Tap Social is one of the best venues in Oxford by miles. Staff is always lovely and very friendly + relaxed and chilled. Drinks are great if you're into drinking and their events are always top class. Can't recommend them enough so just go and see for yourself.

Good beer and other fun drinks options.

Great atmosfere and delicious pizza!!

Saw Hugh Turner with his heavy funk quartet on 15th May. Great music, lovely atmosphere, really enjoyable evening. Friendly bar staff, great.

Deadleg comedy on Monday night is definitely the most unique and memorable night I’ve been to in a very long time. Band, original and very funny comedy. Very welcoming night!

great music venue and good range of beers and ciders

Great selection of beers, but I found the location and the atmosphere a bit bizarre.

Friendly environment, good variety of beer

Wonderful bands and the drinks and pizza were excellent too!

Lovely staff, wacky interior and great atmosphere. Beer selection is very good.

Great drinks options Inc low alcohol choices, relaxed vibes and fun decor! And helping a great social mission as well :) the food trucks are a super addition when they're there!

The same joke was told about nine times and it got funnier each time!

Went for drag bingo had a really good night will definitely come again

Came here for St Patrick’s day Ceilidh and had an amazing night. Great venue, plenty of room to dance and a great pool table with board games upstairs. Looking forward to coming back!

Love this place - very informal with great service & good selection of beers. Ska night was excellent

My favourite place to go have a drink and socialise in Oxford! Great pizza, great beers, and lovely people! Plus the events that take place in Tap Social are always nice!

Honestly have visited many times because I live in Botley and there's not much else there. The music is always far too loud, you have to shout even far from the speakers, and the own-brand beer is uncomfortably heavy. I appreciate what they're doing but it always leads to a disappointing night out. Love the artwork tho.

Just had the best Monday night at the comedy here. Funny and musical and lovely.

It was pretty quiet but the staff come out for a dance when they knock off. It's just really cool anyway.

Very cool place , nice atmosphere, good music and very friendly people . The spirit was great.

Great night at the Spin Jazz club at Tap Social. Will be going again. Awesome night out.

Love this venue great space for the amigos to play there vinyl's and for people to dance the night away . Had a great time playing my vinyl's DJ Dee was in the building . 9/12/2023 Great bar with lots of different beers to try if that's your thing . Also outside the front door are freshly made 🍕. X

Extremely friendly staff and fantastic beer 😁

Really nice spot for a night out. Good vegetarian pizzas when we were there.

We had my birthday party there. The venue was perfect, the staff were super friendly and accommodating, the beer and food was excellent. We had a brilliant time and I’m so glad we chose Tap Social as the location

My number 1 favourite place in the whole of Oxford by a long way. Incredible beer, excellent prices, authentic quirk and most importantly smiling staff that are a pleasure to be around. They hold events of every shape and size from Wrestling to Morris Men. It's a great hang out spot that's somehow cosy yet has loads of space. Don't get me wrong, it can get a bit chilly in the winter, and the parking is a little hazy, but you'll soon forget that. This place may be single handily bringing the community back to Oxford. So stop paying for overpriced pints in pubs that all look the same and have nothing on. Go experience a friendly little slice of home.

Good choice of drinks, good atmosphere and prices

The place was amazing and the IPA just superb.

One of the best Oxford based brewers

Wonderful tap room for the brewery. I didn't have food on this occasion but the pizzas looked delicious.

Tap Social's False Economy has to be one of the best UK-brewed lagers. Period. I cannot recommend Tap Social more. Excellent customer service, excellent beverages.

libby was very helpful. she made me a nice cocktail. thank you

Great beer, great events good food and welcoming staff

Fantastic friendly place with great beer.

Monday Dead Leg Comedy nights are a great mix of established and open mic comedians, with a core 4 comedians who host the night and also act as the house band, its been great to see them develop a cool repetoir of tunes (60s/70s/alt/rock/punk/metal/allsorts). A real cosy night with the added bonus of great beers, ace cocktails and fresh cooked pizza.

I was there for a company event: great atmosphere and drinks. I'd recommend it!

Great venue. Good atmosphere and fantastic events. When it's busy, the pizzas they serve can take a long time to arrive, however they're freshly baked in a pizza oven and taste great when they do arrive.

Went here for a gig (as part of the band) - really friendly and helpful team, great beer and pizzas. Location is really odd - as someone unfamiliar with the area, I wouldn't expect a venue at the back of a village industrial estate next to the A34 to even exist. Let alone be an excellent destination! But it is superb and well worth the trip.

We love the Tap Social, visiting DJs, pop up food.

Great atmosphere, often live music is playing. Unfortunately I really don't like the cider they have on tap, which is a shame, but their other drinks are good.

Bit out of the way but we did a great baby friendly pub quiz here. Also lots of other good other events going on. A good selection of nice beers and pizza cooked on site. A really nice venue!

Great beer. Obviously the location is on an industrial estate, but once you accept that it is quite quirky and still very welcoming.

Barman Callan is an absolute legend, definitely made our nights :) great service and lovely peoples xx

A great band, really pleasant staff, fantastic beer brewed on site. In a small industrial estate there is a transgressive atmosphere.

Strange experience. I went to a comedy night there. Paid to watch an American jew come to a Christian kingdom to attack the Christian religion. Quite strange considering the millions of Christians who died in the war fighting the nazis which were killing Jews. I have started writing my own stand up comedy routine mocking Judaism using historical facts regarding their religious origins going all the way through to when the people of Egypt rose up and kicked the hyksos out of Egypt which is when the hyksos then went on to become the Israelites, and finishing with punchline that even though they have their own religious state now bought for them by rothschild, they still insist on subverting Christian nations. In all good comedy clubs soon. That aside, venue was alright. They sell pizza. Bar staff were good.

We attended on Monday as part of the Oxford Comedy Festival, it was brilliant! All staff are extremely friendly and happy to provide advice with the on-site brewed drinks. One of our favourite spots in Oxford to visit.

Great space for drinks and a dance a nice change from the standard pub etc would recommend it.

We only stopped in for drinks so can't comment on food. Super-friendly staff. Great music playing. Chilled atmosphere (lunchtime). Drinks went down well with the group, and good no-alc beer/ale options. It's a bit surreal walking through an industrial estate to get there, but WELL WORTH IT!

Good beer, but they server drinks in non re useable plastic cups. It makes the beer taste worse and is very wasteful.

One of the best and friendliest old school nights out in Oxford

Its a grrat plave to have social events in oxford

Great place to go for a drink. A great social enterprise and excellent beer. Food trucks and live music are an added bonus too. Fantastic addition to Botley.

Great place for entertainment & a good social atmosphere

Oxford's finest place to hang around with friends or meet new and interesting people. Great Staff, great pizza, great music, great vibes...the list just goes on and on.....

Attended a birthday party, great place, great atmosphere, good beer

Fantastic evening. Thanks Jenny Graham.

Always great food and great music. And of course great beer at this micro brewery.

The Tap Social is a great place in the Botley area that is really trying to do something different, and at the same time adding a great option to the entertainment options in the area. The beers available are really good as you would expect from a micro brewery, the space is open and huge and never feels overly crowded even on bust nights. There is also a permanent Pizza option now in the evenings, which is delicious with a proper woood fired oven. There is also plenty of parking in the estate should you need it, though cabs also come here to do pickups and drop offs.

Kind of mixed feelings about the New Year's Eve party but the place is great nevertheless!

Great beers, great vibe, great music, great ethos and Lord and Lady "H" of Botley residing.

Brilliant place and atmosphere. Feels like everyone is welcome there. You can listen to music, play pool table, dance... while having really good beer. It's a hidden gem

Epic night so many epic people I've not see for ages. Epic tunes epic Mc and epic beer. I think you've gathered it was a rather epic occasion.

Excellent live music event. Sound brilliant. Good beer. Nice atmosphere.

Pretty cool place, a bit out of the way.

Great mix of people, brilliant beers and excellent live music

Great beer, great location, lovely friendly people.

Had a great couple of hours snuggled up on a sofa with a cup of tea and a book one Saturday afternoon. Husband says the beer was great! Dog friendly! Really welcoming staff, nice chilled atmosphere. Was slightly chilly on a January afternoon, but would return! Lots going on, great art work all over the walls, some good comfy sofas!

Great place and great beer with a difference. Tucked away on a small industrial estate, but well worth the journey.

Lovely network event at Tap Social. First time at TS. Loved the look and feel of the space. Great service and pizza was a great addition too. Thanks for your hospitality. Merry Christmas.

A great array of ages everyone is made to feel apart of the experience.

Good beer, good music, good crowd

Top notch tap room. Super friendly staff, cosy bar area with big screen for football. Good merch available including a Growler that comes with full refill. 🍺 Oh, and superb range of fresh, craft beer of course!

Great community vibe, lots of drinks choice and friendly staff

Great beers and a great atmosphere

Super stand-up comedy on a Thursday night and very nice and chilled vibe

I will never forget the vibe of this place! It's a must visit!

Really fun evening listening to Brickwork Lizards and Larkspur. Thoroughly enjoyable music in a great atmosphere.

A great social venue. We visited for a group 40th Birthday party and enjoyed the atmosphere, beer and food.

Great space, great staff, great beer

We had such a good time at the comedy night! Some pretty funny acts. Venue is also very nice

Excellent range of interesting beers

Great venue - had a lovely evening

Possibly the best pub in Oxford in my humble opinion

Saturday night disco was jammed full of people, the atmosphere warm and welcoming. The bar staff,Oliver and co. worked ceaselessly the entire evening (thank you). People of every age coming together. Smiles on everyone's faces. Sweet harmony.

Great place, staff, beer and quiz!

Best craft beer, best people, best music. Oxford’s best hidden gem

Very good place for all age groups