The black horse hotel in South Oxfordshire

My absolute favourite restaurant for excellent food, service and atmosphere

A very wet and windy day found solace and comfort at the Black Horse with lovely food and service . Beetroot Terrine followed by Slow Roasted Shoulder of Venison Yum Yum

Nice Sunday roast here. Three children and four adults, food tasty, especially the vegetarian. Only complaint was the crazy large size of the children's roasts, which were advertised as half portions. One of our adult portions was smaller than one of the children's ones, which was just served on a smaller plate. When we pointed this out they offered more yorkshires and potatoes, but it was the meat quantity that was lacking. The waitress just shrugged when we pointed this out and brought more potatoes. For £20+ per roast a tiny amount of meat is not ok.

Private event. Small room, but very clean and lovely staff.

Really enjoyed the food and nothing was too much trouble for the table servers. The best part was the Pistachio Soufflé absolutely divine.

Having visited and dined at The Black Horse on numerous occasions I can only surmise that the AI review is for another establishment!!! On our most recent visit we enjoyed several dishes from the menu, all excellent, a special mention must go to the oak smoked pork ribeye, truly mouthwatering. Our service from Jess was exemplary, attentive but not intrusive. She should give masterclasses. All in all a splendid lunchtime experience.

Nice pub with good food overall, but the onion soup tasted burned. However they took it off the bill without any fuss. Have been many times and would definitely go again

Perfect place for Friday night dinner to wind down from a long week. Service is fantastic.

Exactly what a pub restaurant should be! Great dining experience in a traditional English pub environment. Ignore the 'Ai' generated summary. Excellent food and wine menu, very attentive service and we had the best duck we have ever had - will definitely be back for our next family gathering

Literally the best roast we’ve had out in a long time! Cozy atmosphere, fantastic service & a beautiful Sunday roast - what more could you ask for?!

The setting and atmosphere is lovely, food excellent and we were not rushed at all. The menu is very good indeed and not at all run of the mill. We will certainly be back.

Lovely food and friendly service.

Unfortunately very 'meh'. Starters were nice, mains we had steak. Disappointing steaks with a lot of sinew. One was overcooked, well done rather than medium although regrettably we didn't send it back. The waitress seemed uninterested when we pointed it out. On the whole quite a slow service, so we left before dessert.

We drove down from Harrogate to spend time with family and part of the trip was to meet up with friends and family for a Sunday lunch, we had visited the Black Horse twice before so booked for 7 to sit down to Sunday lunch. We had excellent food Roast Beef and Yorkshires with bottomless roast potatoes seemed a real table favourite, although one guest had the chicken, 2 had the veggie beetroot option, and one went for the Beef Burger, there wasn't one complaint in fact we were all delighted with the food. The service was attentive without being overbearing. All in all a special lunch made better!

Well varied menu. Clean and tidy. Enthusiastic staff. Good value for money

An excellent family group lunch from the a la carte menu. Great food at reasonable prices.

Lovely Sunday lunch in the conservatory area, roast was plentiful and delicious, service very good despite being very busy.

Great experience and good food with good atmosphere.

Three of us dined here on Saturday lunchtime. We chose this establishment mainly because of the Google reviews and we were very pleased that we did. It was busy but without being noisy. The service was excellent and the food exemplary. We all chose different things and everyone was more than pleased. It represented good value for many and as far as we are concerned The Black Horse is highly recommended.

We were taken here by old friends, and what a treat! The food was uniformly excellent, the servers were lovely and the place itself is delightful. Can't wait to go back next time we're in the area.

My wife and I were walk ins to this pub on a very busy Sunday. Despite being clearly fully booked the team manage to find us some where to sit after about a 20 minute wait with a drink in the bar. We both had roast dinners, from the selection of chicken, pork and beef, we both had the beef. The portions were generous, the food was to an amazing standard and the potatoes were simply awesome. The team were attentive and provided excellent service. It’s a bit of a trek from home but we hope to be back!

Great new menu, delicious food. Busy even on weeknights, this place a nice gentle buzz. Most of the venue is given over to dining, with a small area for drinks.

Food wasn't up to scratch but everything else spot on, food ratings not the best after looking the pub up afterwards.

The food was great as well as the service provided. We’ll definitely come back here!

Very nice food loved the experience

We met friends at The Black Horse and for both of us it was an hour drive which was worth it. The food was superb as was the choice. The knowledge of the staff to make a wine pairing choice was great and the staff were super.

Very friendly staff and an excellent cooked breakfast! 🍳

Unfortunately for us, we had a group of 8 seated in the back next to a very happy group that was so loud we could barely hear, and the serving staff seemed flustered and overwhelmed. Food was slow coming and two out of the orders were so poorly prepared they required attention from the staff.

Never fails to deliver on service and standard of food. The waitress was efficient and very personable. The food, as always, was fantastic with great quality products prepared by a skilled chef. The soufflé is just amazing.

An update on the last time I visited. A lovely setting with lovely decor and a cosy vibe. Service is good but once more the food needs improvement. Heard good things from others and thought I need to try it again after a long spell of not visiting and it’s a step up on the last one but again the food is average for the price you are paying. I understand with rising prices and inflation that the menu needs to adjust to that, but lukewarm food doesn’t cost anything.

What happened. This was good, with good traditional food. Now the 4 of us didn't understand half of what was on the menu. My Dad asked for orange squash and was given juice. Very disappointing Neal. We will not be back

Very good food, staff very friendly and accommodating, highly recommended

Heard sexual comments to other members of staff, found inappropriate. Food nice but overpriced for the size, went from reading reviews but wouldn’t recommend.

We went for our anniyand couldn't fault it. My partner started with the prawn and crayfish salad and I had the Mediterranean fish soup, which was divine. My partner then had the ducks and I the pork roulade. Finishing off with the chocolate mousse. All in all the food was perfect (the pork roulade especially) and the service was fantastic, couldn't fault it. I would recommend this to anyone as a great place for dinner, though having a look about the place when we were there, it would look like a good spot for a quick drink and a lunch meet up.

Lovely pub great service all our meals were great

We had the pleasure of experiencing the excellent staff and impeccable service at this establishment, which truly stood out. However, we were disappointed with the food. Unfortunately, the beef and ale pie didn't meet expectations—I've had better at local chippies. The portion size was also surprisingly small, reminiscent of rationing days. While the service is top-notch, I would recommend reconsidering the pie or exploring other menu options. Steak perhaps.

If you are looking to have one meal in Thame then I can’t recommend this pub / bistro enough. It was packed on a Thursday night and it soon became apparent t why. The bread and dips alone are worth dining here! This recommendation is given without reservation!

Very good vegan options, beetroot terrine starter was inspired and sweetcorn and pepper fritters delicious main course.

We took our friends to the Black horse for a Sunday Roast. I had the Beef and it was beautifully cooked, it was a huge plate of food. Polished off with some extra gravy. The beer was lovely, pint of Larger Peroni on tap. We couldn’t manage a pudding but the looked lovely from other tables.

A lovely place for a meet up with family and friends, excellent service.

What looks like a pub has turned out to be a very good restaurant. Reservation was necessary. Limited menu but one for very tasty and unique dishes. Stars for the chef! A direct hit, the service and atmosphere are also wonderful. And we found it extremely affordable after a successful meal.

Just had a really good dinner here with three generations of family. The food is good, it's a pleasant place and everyone is nice. They did get a couple of the desserts wrong but the right stuff turned up quickly and we were all happy.

Lovely old listed pub that is a surprise inside. Very popular, especially for food. Different dining areas, all with charm. Very nice outside eating / drinking area .

I give up. I sometimes arrange to meet clients there in the mornings. It's pleasant enough for a chat and coffee. But today (Thursday 11th July), for the THIRD time they've done this to me, they were closed (for training) when they were supposed to be open. I was actually there the day before, and there was no warning posted. Another wasted journey for me and my clients. Bloody embarrassing! From now on I'll be using a place that actually opens when they say they will. They think they're posh,and a cut above the other places in Thame. Well, at least the other places open when they should!

Great food, excellent service and very well looked after.

What an amazing pub to visit for an amazing dinner. We came here to celebrate a birthday and were not let down. Even though there was a large group in the restaurant the food was still served in a timely manner and all of it was delicious. They even managed to accommodate a booking time change only 2 hours in advance. Would definitely come back again.

Shrinkflation and increase in price We meet up with friends every year at the Black Horse in Thame. Since last time, I think we all felt that restaurant suffered from shrinkflation and probably about a £2 increase in cost on the mains. Two of us had the steak and ale and noticed that the pie, mash and beens were small at a cost of about £18. You felt that you needed to order sides at an extra £4! On the positive side the atmosphere and service were good. The desert (crumble) was excellent. BOOMEL

Delicious food, lovely restaurant, an affordable treat 😊

Lovely lunch a little too pricey - even for toulouse sausage and mash 😋 - special occasion type place.

Old tradition pub nice garden outside, they ales on pump, the place is in excellent location, service very friendly welcoming to

Great food and lovely environment.

Lovely food, friendly staff, nice restaurant, quick service. Ticked all my boxes. Keep up he good work.

Great food, service and cosy atmosphere. We love your roasts

Good food & service, but not cheap.

The fish soup and cheese souffle was 10 out of ten...sunday roast beef! Beef cut the wrong way so flowery, potatoes great, veg OK...but! Starter magnificent.

Delicious food and very friendly service. Sat outside in a very pleasant courtyard. Highly recomme

Good service, ok food, amazingly great deserts!

What they lack in portion size is more than made up for by the size of the bill. And what the hell is meant by their claim to be 'LGBTQ+ friendly'? What does it mean exactly? Another company going silly woke... For goodness sake, you're just a pub, not the United Nations.

Had a great meal here very good atmosphere friendly staff

This is the second time we have had a family reunion at this pub (6 senior citizens). We all enjoyed the food - I had trout and almonds - lovely! The service was good and the staff very friendly. The pub is in Thame which is a lovely place with loads of very old buildings in the high street. We had a lovely day and in the famous phrase we will be back!

Another Fantastic meal out, beautiful and the waitress team were brilliant. Our waitress was very helpful and kept our glasses full... Highly recommended. Update: No change, place still worth a visit and food is beautiful.

Good value of money and prices are lot better as they were before

Most dishes fantastic, esp the cheese souffle and spring green risotto, but the prawn cocktail a huge disappointment, sadly. Virtually no lime mayo, def not worth £9.50 :-( But... + Good, friendly service on a busy Saturday night. + Quite a few small plate options for those with smaller appetites. + Nice looking bar at front for pre-dinner drinks

Fabulous visit last night. Great atmosphere, wonderful food and delightful staff. Thank you

I see they've dropped the bar menu. They're getting vey pretentious. They seem to have forgotten they're just another boozer. Oh well, me and my proletariat friends and colleagues will just have to go to Jimmy Figg's for our working class grub!

Excellent food as always with great service

Excellent Sunday roast here. Beef cooked perfectly to our liking - rare and pink in the middle, tender and extremely tasty. Great accompaniments and superb Yorkshire pud. Very busy on the Sunday we were there - obviously popular and justifiably so based on what we ate. Pistachio souffle is one of the best souffles anywhere and is consistently good. Service is efficient and attentive without feeling overbearing - extra veg and gravy are always freely offered. 2 and 3 course options available to save on the individual course prices.

I popped in for a Sunday lunch passing by on my motorbike during a nice day. The staff was lovely, food was amazing (I had beef roast and some mushrooms as a starter)

Excellent food and service. Great value for money

The food was good as usual. The staff were attentive as always.

Wonderful lunch, fish & chips is delicious 😋

The Black Horse is such a great mix of relaxed surroundings and atmosphere with outstanding service and food. I really think it is excellent value for the quality. A lovely option for a special occasion.

My husband and I had a wonderful Easter Sunday lunch, we both had roast beef which was absolutely delightful, cut like butter. And the soufflé well, just mouthwatering, absolutely delicious. Would definitely recommend the food..Roger & Lynda Poole ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fantastic seabass and mussels, beautifully seasoned and presented. Excellent service and delicious dessert. Will definitely recommend and be returning

Super service, great atmosphere

Great Sunday lunch, excellent service again 2nd visit this year and did not disappoint. Well worth the visit. Back again today 25/3 another great lunch fish perfect

Ridiculously small portion sizes which border on being misleading for being advertised as main meals. If the restaurant needs to make margin, increase your prices, don't shrink the portions. It's the second time experienced this at the establishment and now won't return. It's a shame as the ambience is good as was / is the service.

Visited on Saturday as in the area and i had Applewood smoked pork ribeye with Dauphinoise potato, roasted Braeburn apple, red cabbage, pork jus - it was very nice as the pic shows. All the 3 other meals had were also very good. Lovely service and beer good too, the only negative was that when i went to the bar to pay for my meal the charge was £2 more - when i questioned this i was told it was a service charge (to be fair she offered to take it off). i didn't expect this for a party of 4 when we were going to the bar to order and pay for food and drink! It may have been quoted on the paper menu but its not on-line when you look and thought the non-mention of this charge was underhand IMO. Overall good visit....

Really delicious food, presented well and a good price.

I had been given a voucher for my birthday to use for a 2 course meal & a glass of Prosecco for 2 people. So these 2 meals & a Prosecco had been paid for upfront. This was the closest restaurant to use it in from where I live in South Oxfordshire so we traveled a distance as the reviews seemed good. We was seated, given our menus 1 being a set menu for the voucher the other the normal menu & told we could order from the main menu but would have to pay the extra if it was more expensive. We gave our soft drinks order & asked for water. One of us chose a cheaper main meal off the normal menu & the other off the set. We had our desserts & a coffee each to finish our meal. Food was out very quick & have to say was all very fresh & lovely. We asked for the bill & that’s when it all went wrong. Now we were expecting to pay for the 2 soft drinks & 2 coffees so you can imagine our shock when we got a bill for £60! We told the waitress this wasn’t right as they’d charged us for a meal, drinks, a bottle of water which we never received & a service charge. She went to check & told us as we’d ordered off the main menu we had to pay £22 for a meal as the voucher value didn’t cover it yet the meal was only £17. As this made no sense we made her go back & tell her manager we wasn’t happy still. She then came back with a bill for £20 which when all 3 of us added up on our calculators it still didn’t add up. The manager then came to us asking if we were alright & when we explained to her the numbers still didn’t add up she took the bill back off again & came back with a 3rd one for £6. We paid & the look off her face was enough to kill! & she rudely stormed away from us without a word. We got up to head out & she turned her back completely ignoring us. Never have I been so embarrassed & been treated like this in a public place. Not the customer service I give in my place of work even if the customer is rude to me which I wasn’t. Shame as her behaviour puts me off ever going back even though the food was lovely. I also didn’t think until I got home we never even got offered our Prosecco!

Nice place to eat and drink with good service.

Great food and service as always. One server in particular is always brilliant. Unfortunately unsure of her name. Highly recommended.

We had a fabulous lunch here, service was great considering they had 530 covers yesterday 😯 food was lovely and plenty of it! It was a bit warm in the dining room but possibly not helped by the amount of people in the room otherwise no complaints 👌

Love this place can not wait to go back . We always go for Sunday lunch so lovely great service .taking my mum for mother's day can not wait .

Family friendly with great staff and attentive service. Top Sunday roasts and the Pistachio soufflé and the Black Cherry and Chocolate mousse are fantastic puds!

Anticipating a Wednesday steak night deal - sadly we paid an extra £24 on top of cost of 2 steaks! Arguably a good price for a nice bottle of wine but definitely not my idea of a free bottle. Check your bill! Sadly rip off feeling took the edge off a nice meal!

A really enjoyable meal was had at The Black Horse. I started with the sausage salad, which was extremely tasty. I followed this with the lamb roulade, which was amazing. Friendly staff, dog friendly in the bar area. If you're looking for good quality pub food in a relaxed setting, then I'd highly recommend this establishment.

We went with friends this weekend. My husband and I both chose the Pork Ribeye and both found our meals quite disappointing. The apple was uncooked and the dauphinois potatoes were just a slab of dry potatoes basically. All the helpings were small and why should we have to pay for green veg as an extra. I don’t think we’ll be hurrying back to be honest.

Disappointing meal bland and poor quality steaks that were tough as old boot! Food poorly presented compared to the photos you see online. I was somewhat put off by the kitchen staff all in the car park smoking on my arrival. The chicken portion resembled a chicken portion from the local chippy. £190 for lunch not good value won’t be returning

We’ve been here a few times for a drink at the bar and really enjoyed the atmosphere and excellent wine. So we thought we’d try steak night. Food was good, but we’ve had better. My chocolate mousse dessert was amazing but my husband was very disappointed with his crumble. I think for the price point we’d have been disappointed had we not had the free bottle of wine for ‘steak night’. Service was good but we were sitting in a huge room with very few other diners which I realise is out of control of restaurant… but it was a bit lacking in atmosphere. Will try again but ask to sit in the bar area.

Held our annual meeting there. A welcoming atmosphere. Our 5th year of going to the venue

This was my first visit to the Black Horse but it wont be my last! I came here with a friend and we both had the beef Sunday roast. Excellent beef and a good sized portion of fresh vegetables. Despite the pub being very busy, the service was excellent. We both opted for dessert as they were on offer at £6 each if you ordered a main course. At this price they were good value and delicious. The food is not cheap but I have eaten in other similarly priced restaurants in Thame and they have not been anything like as good.

We've visited on only a few occasions but each time has been a delight. The staff are welcoming, friendly and professional. Our food was lovely and we were seated in the 'conservatory' area, which is light and airy.

We went to the Black Horse for my husbands 70th birthday with the family. We had the private room and was served by Lauren who was really friendly and efficient. The food, drink and ambience was amazing. Thank you to the team at the Black Horse. You are all amazing.

Pleasant enough pub however food was slow to arrive and we had to send it back as wasvundercooked

We had a wonderful evening on a meal out with friends for the first time at The Black Horse. Great atmosphere and delicious food. The Rhubarb and Almond Tart was incredible. Charlie, who took our orders was so friendly and it added to an already excellent night. We will definitely be back Thank you

I’ve been here a few times before and always found it great. On my most recent visit I was quite surprised to find the quality of the food was not up to their usual excellent standards. The steak served was not a particularly good cut and was far blander than on previous occasions. Not awful and perfectly ok to be fair to them, just not what I had come to expect from the Black Horse. Also felt a bit steep price wise on this occasion given the standard, while previously it had felt like good value. Staff were very pleasant and can’t complain about the service or setting, both of which were great.

Excellent food, great staff and a very warm welcome on arrival. Good ambience which made for a very pleasant evening visit.

Have been several times before, this time very disappointed with the food and how the staff made us look like we couldn’t pay to all the other diners as their card machine froze and made us stand with several staff around us like we were...

Excellent service and even better Sunday Roast. Really great experience.