The Standard in Oxford

Food OK - I would have wanted it more spicy. Some nice things on the menu. Nice, cosy & enjoyable place. Friendly staff.

For many years, this has (and still is) one of my favorite Indian restaurants: the food is delicious, the service is fantastic, and the atmosphere cosy (make sure to book ahead). Highly recommended!

Food was really tasty! We really loved the varied curry that the restaurant served. Tikka chicken Briyani was one of our most favorite dish. The rice was very fragrant and flavoured with the spice, making it very flavourful. The curry that accompanied it complements the food perfectly. We also ordered the Madras King Prawn Curry with a Garlic and Coriander Naan. It is decently spicy, and the curry was even tastier than the curry for Briyani. We really loved the food. Very high quality! We were quite disappointed at how slow the service was even though there were only 2 customers in the restaurant that day. Front of house was busy attending to reservations and calls, and took very long to take our orders. The other customer had to wait quite a while for the FOH to be free to have his main course served. Other staff could have helped with the workload. Nevertheless, he was very apologetic and friendly throughout.

I got the lamb rogan josh, it was amazing; the service was really quick and loved the atmosphere!

Truly The Standard for great Indian food and service. Mouth watering, authentic Indian food, generous portions and very friendly staff. We would highly recommend the Korai Paneer Tikka and the Mango Lassi is amazing! Some of the best Indian food in the UK with authentic spices and flavors. Along with a great selection of drinks and beverages!

Have eaten in and got delivery. Great food but repeated problems with Uber Eats for delivery. 1.5h from order to delivery … Best to eat in than get Uber Eats. Pls switch back to Deliveroo!

The Standard sets consistently high standards: delicious food, attentive service, and a welcoming atmosphere. Thoroughly recommended - it never disappoints!

Best Indian Bengal food in Oxford, highly recommended, have eaten in and ordered many times, great food, super friendly staff, extremely satisfied, look no further ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Love this place for take away or dining in!

Honestly the best Indian food I’ve had for a long long time (and I’ve tried a lot!) Highly recommend if you can!

I’ve had the best Chicken Tikka Masala here, the service is quick. Papadoms and the chutneys were so tasty. The Standard is the place to go if you crave for Indian food.

Ordered takeaway fantastic as always can’t fault in anyway, would definitely recommend!

I visited The Standard in Jericho with friends and it still rates, in my eyes, as one of the best Indian restaurants I’ve ever been to!! Service, quality of food and atmosphere are second to none! All I can say is keep up the brilliant work to the manager and all of the staff!! We will return!

Front of house is fantastic! Book a table before you go and staff are great.

Delicious food. Best Indian food I've tasted in Oxford. Can actually tell the difference between all the dishes. Service is excellent too. However, it is very noisy in the restaurant as they don't have any soft furnishings to cushion the noise.

In a city of many Indian restaurants the standard is a reassuringly excellent choice. Always busy, always friendly, food and service are outstanding and it’s our ‘go to’ when friends are visiting and want good quality Indian food. I haven’t had a poor dish there yet, and neither have any of our friends. Particular favourites are the prawn dishes with their twisted prawns from the tandoor and the chicken with tamarind and black pepper, unusual and interesting. Do remember to book, it’s small and busy and you don’t want to be disappointed.

Food great as ever at this small and intimate Indian restaurant. Busy Saturday night turning tables meant that our bill was presented as soon as the main course was cleared away without being requested or checking if we wanted anything else. This brought our evening with friends to an abrupt end.

The food is just great here and we think it's the best in Oxford. Meat and vegetarian dishes, cooked perfectly. Family run, unassuming business.

Very small place so I'm glad I made reservations. The food was outstanding! My wife and I shared the Tandoori mixed grill and some garlic Naan. The samosas starters were delicious also. The wine that the manager suggested was perfect.

Amazing place, great for veggies

They cater well to different tastes and preferences. I've enjoyed every meal I've had over the years so can recommend for dine-in and takeaways. Never had a bad experience, even when it's full (which definitely can't be said for every restaurant!) Good-sized portions for the money too.

Will be dreaming about the tamarind/black pepper chicken and peshwari naan back in NYC

We have been ordering from The Standard for a long time and already know how great the food is but I wanted to post a review to say thank you for our lunch which was delivered on Sunday. It was for a large group to celebrate a birthday so it was important to get everything right and we were not let down. The food arrived on time, in separate bags with the persons name on it, the food was hot and fresh tasting and everything was outstanding, with complimentary poppadoms and pickles. The age range at the birthday was between 20 and 88 and everyone thoroughly enjoyed their dishes. I just want to say thank you to The Standard for making our birthday celebrations perfect and the weather was great too!

One of the best Indian meals we have enjoyed in the UK. Small but interesting menu, brilliant flavours. Good house wine.

Calm, clean, pretty quick, fresh food.. great service, faultless and friendly. In my opinion having tried every restaurant along Walton Street this is by far the best for food, service and consistency. I really rate this place. 10 tables inside approx and 4 outside. It's a fair price and relaxed setting.

Fantastic food, whether eating in or taking away. The staff are wonderful, my go to restaurant for an Indian in Oxford.

The Standard is my favourite restaurant in Oxford by far! The food is always delicious, and the staff are really friendly and accomodating, often going above and beyond.

Visited last night, and wasn’t disappointed, Great quality food, speedy service and really friendly staff, I would certainly visit again

Very enjoyable. Me and a friend turned up on a saturday night just gone at 10pm. Very welcoming and attentive. We both enjoyed the food and requested off the menu dishes which was not a problem. The food is plentiful and full of flavour. Chicken tikka madras was my main and beautiful. Thank you all.

So much has changed for us since we fist popped in to the Standard for a date night eight years ago. We now consider The Standard to be our favourite restaurant in Oxford. The owners have passed on their charm and warmth, creating a menu of exceptional food that excites the senses and an atmosphere to truly relax in. The Standard manages to meet (and often exceed) our level of excited anticipation every time we visit. We highly recommend this restaurant to our family and friends as a must on visiting Oxford.

outstanding food quality ingredient great service have eaten here for years & if anything gets even better a family business that oxford is proud of long may it remain

good dinner in a very nice place

I ordered through Deliveroo this time. The food was good but the portions were tiny, especially considering the high prices. I’ve eaten in and ordered takeaway from The Standard before (since 2015) and it wasn’t this expensive and the portions were bigger. For £60 + it wasn’t even enough food for two adults and a small child, and left us hungry.

Food excellent. Tandoori mixed grill was cooked to perfection, served with a nice salad and lovely raitha. It was so good that I had to write a review!

Super testy food very much food Very good food and standard hygienic environment

Small restaurant with a few roadside tables.Friendly, efficient staff. Good onion bhaji's, four per serve. Chicken Biryiani was good. Tasty chicken pieces and enough for two. Served with a side of vegetable curry. Medium heat, but can be varied as requested. Similar prices to other restaurants in the area.

The best Indian in Oxford for sure! Amazing quality and taste.

Experience from start to finish was excellent. They took our coats, restaurant was full, but service and food came out in good time. Authentic and delicious Bangladesh Indian food. Best of all was the service. Dildar and Kawsar were knowledgeable, attentive and funny. Made us feel at home. Very full and happy when we left. Highly recommend!

Best Indian food I've had in years! Will be coming back very soon.

Excellent restaurant, recommended. Very friendly staff and reasonable prices. The onion badjees, the chicken Zalfrezi(?) were very fresh, well cooked and simply... divine!

Best Indian food I had in a while. We shared different dishes. Advise taking a main per person, have a few sides and the rice portions are quite generous so possible to share among 2.

This small, unassuming restaurant in Jericho packs a real punch with it's outstanding food and service. The quality and freshness of ingredients is obvious, and the chefs putting it all together are clearly very experienced and talented. The atmosphere is relaxed and the service really efficient and friendly. Book ahead as this place is small and popular. We've been coming here off and on since student days (which is a LONG time) and it has impressed on every single occasion. You're in for a real treat.

Attentive and helpful staff plus good first class

Food was really good quality, and value for money

Amazing food, served by extremely friendly and welcoming staff. Exceeded our expectations. We definitely come back again.

Great indian food and very kind service. We came early without reservation and we had a place to seat.

Slightly emotional trip down memory lane, as having a Saturday night curry with family, 40 years after being at student eating at The Standard as our "local" college "curry house". It's still great, with classic "indian meals" plus specials and plenty of vegetarian options. The beers are interesting. Service friendly. This is not a glamorous restaurant by any means but doesn't need to me. You'll need to book up at busy times. Enjoy!

Small, friendly restaurant with great service and food.

A reliably superb curry house that has survived the pandemic unscathed. It's rather small, so best to book in advance if you want to eat at a particular time. Service is attentive and quick, the selection of beers much more diverse and local than you'd expect, and the food superb every time at an average price for the area. I make a point of coming here at least once a year and have never regretted it!

Great food, great people. Don't tell everyone. It's my local!

So pleased we booked because the place was packed, not massive portions but full of taste and flavour.

Absolutely wonderful. Everyone was extremely friendly and professional; some of the best service I've ever had! The food was lovely too, particularly the prawn pathia :)

Terrific place with lovely people and delicious food. I’ve been eating and having takeaways from the Standard for over 30 years and never been disappointed. There’s always a great welcome and, during the time I had to use a walking stick, lots of consideration.

An absolute delight of a small, bustling welcoming restaurant with great, well cooked food and welcoming staff. This is a place that I’ve seen for many years walking by in Jerico but this was the first with two friends. It’s informal, no frills so beloved of modern places, and all the better for it. The staff are welcoming and friendly and the service impeccable. The menu is relatively small but the food is fantastic. We enjoyed and flavoursome dishes tender lamb, chicken and king prawn dishes with lovely naan breads and rice. We started with crispy papadums and delicious bhajis. A good, reasonably drinks list, including non alcoholic beer options. I had a mango lassi, which was delicious and will be my drink of choice when I go back. This is a gem of a restaurant, I only wish that I found it years ago. Book to avoid disappointment as it’s small. We loved it, and so will you. Thank you for a lovely evening to all at the Standard.

Very affordable, delicious, authentic indian food in the heart of Oxford! Service was 10/10. We had a little one who doesn’t eat spicy food and the staff members were very kind and understanding by offering to make plain chicken tandoori starter size, needless to say, my daughter loved it and even wanted more!! We were also about to order more curry, but the waiter recommended that it will be too much, which he was absolutely right, he recommended the perfect combination of food, starters and dessert. The bill surprised us as it didn’t include tips (which we added on top) and was very reasonable pricing. The waiter was very good with small talks, kind and friendly! We really enjoyed the food, our time there! I had the best garlic naan in my life!! It was freshly baked and super delicious! With curry it was a top notch!

Do not order for takeaway. The dishes were tasty but the chicken was very tough and portions small in size compared to most Indian takeaways.

Super delicious food and really kind people! Perfect combo

Extraordinary meal and service. Worth the drive out from London! Simply, wow.

We came as a big party last night and the food was delicious and great service. Even as a big group, the food was brilliant. All coming out perfectly synchronised. Thanks for a special evening

Possibly the finest Indian restaurant in Oxford. The food and service are consistently excellent.

Utter shambles of a place!! Booked a table for 7 on a Thursday night. The booking call was difficult as their lack of understanding me was obvious. I don’t have a broad accent I’m a Londoner. We arrived at planned 7.15pm and the staff were immediately confused. They told me I booked Friday! Which I did not!! They were unapologetic and just looked at us?? As it was our party decided the place was a scruffy old Indian restaurant and we went over the road to a Thai restaurant, the food in there was amazing? Note to restaurant—- you need to have a clear understanding of someone’s booking to avoid situations like this. I would like to say there reason of communication breakdown but I cannot in this so called modern world as I don’t want to be accused or misunderstood.. but I’m sure you get what I’m trying to say. We won’t be back anytime soon

Going to the UK, besides Fish & Chips, you must eat Indian Food. It can be north or south Indian cuisines, generally (in my personal opinion) it cannot go wrong. The Standard is certainly within expectation. I savour every moment of it. I let the pictures do the communication. Would I revisit The Standard? Definitely! But, one word of advice, do make reservation days in advance. If not, unless you start your dinner at 5.30pm, you will not be able to get a space.

Very tasty food and good service

Great food and really welcoming. Four of us Friday night, but change in plan added a fifth. Very accommodating about it. I had lamb zalfresi, spicy not too hot but full of flavour. Peshawari naan, superb. Others equally happy. A couple of industrial sized king fisher lagers, popadoms and chutney tray rounded out at 30 a head. I think they have slightly reduced the portion size which suited me, I felt full not over stuffed. Other dishes I liked madras, biriyani, tandoori. The naans are excellent. The guy who runs is so helpful and always pleased to see you. The best place I know for a curry.

Outstanding high quality classic and original Indian dishes. Just found the best Indian in Oxford and I’ve tried most of the others over the last 20 years.

food is really good and prices are fair and staff are polite and really helpful. unfortunately we didnt have very pleasant dinner and time there because of other people dinning there, as the restaurant is small, we could hear another people but some customers didnt have manners and were really loud so we didnt really have a good time

This is my absolute favorite restaurant in Oxford! The food is always fantastic and no matter what I order I am always delighted with my meal! Everything I tasted melted in my mouths. Service is unmatched. Staff truly cares about your experience, always efficient, happy and polite. Absolutely the best curry I have ever had. I would like to come back here again and again.

An excellent Indian restaurant. An excellent Indian restaurant. The dishes were delicious, spicy. We loved them very much. The mango dip - Amaba was superbly made properly! Required! Nan bread was hot and fresh. Excellent, professional, fast and courteous service.

Amazing food! Flavours are fresh and authentic. Staff is very welcoming☺️Highly recommend.

Tried food from here for the first time and it was majorly disappointing. More expensive than others but mediocre in quality. Korma was overly sweet and had far more sauce than chicken. Chicken tikka masala was instantly forgettable in flavour. The rice portion seemed small. You'd think they would add on some complimentary poppadoms for the amount spent but none were included. I wouldn't order from here again.

Had a superb meal here with the family. The menu is relatively small and has some different dishes on it from your normal Indian restaurant. All the food that came out was amazing and each dish had its own unique flavours unlike many restaurants where all the food tastes the same and the sauces look the same. Service was also very friendly and efficient. I will definitely come back and highly recommend The Standard.

Consistently sucking up to the indignious locals and forgetting we notice all the behaviours of the new female server. Treating delivery riders with absolute contemp and ignoring the fact that the order is the restaurants own customer. I have had a word with a group or regulars and we will no longer tip that individual and not engage with formalities. Why is it that when we are a guest in another's establishment we all use decorum yet this individual would not attempt the display of comtempt in her mother land for fear of been told the truth with possible manual correction. Bloody millennial. We have to respect other cultures and foreign workers yet why can they pick and choose who they treat with contempt. Very bad advert for the owner.

A favourite when we were students in the early 1980s, this was a nostalgic trip back and did not disappoint; the food was excellent (a small but interesting menu, the onion bhajis were superb, the beer list chosen with care), the ambience cosy and the owner welcoming, friendly and helpful. Even on a Sunday in 0th week there was a steady flow of patrons both eating in and getting takeaways, so its obviously still a local favourite and is perfectly placed opposite the Phoenix Picturehouse. Long may it continue!

Excellent staff and delicious food!

Hands down the best Indian food in Oxford, and honestly some of the best I've had in England. They've got some unique and interesting dishes that go beyond "standard" fare and lots of great veggie dishes. And the quality of the ingredients is glaringly obvious especially when compared to other restaurants. Just absolutely top notch food that feels good to eat. Can't recommend enough.

Excellent indian food. One of the very best I have ever had. I really recommend the potatoes dish, the chicken tikka. The naans are soft and the mango lassi is absolutely delicious! Really nothing to complain about!

British Indian style, done well.

Best British Bangladeshi in the Shire. Been going for 5 generations! Brilliant all round.

Friendly staff, really really good food although menu is limited

Excellent experience. The food was brilliant and the service was attentive. A nice selection of craft ales if you're into that too. The menu is shorter than your usual Indian restaurant but it's full of well curated choices. The Nihari was delicious, meat that was tender and fell off the bone, well spiced, and soft chickpeas. A different type of Nihari than my mum makes but it was nice to try something different that was very well executed. The specials are all worth trying if you want something you've not had before and you will not be disappointed.

Had a great meal here - the staff were lovely and the food was fantastic

Lovely meal and friendly staff, everything you want from dining out on a lovely restaurant

First time going here - the food was absolutely scrumptious and so was the dessert! I really recommend the ice cream and the mango lassi! The staff were so nice! Definitely going here again!

Great service, a wide selection of drinks and food. When I was ordering and asked for spicier options the Maitre D' came over and explained the levels of spice and offered as whole chilli or powder. When the food arrived it was both piping hot and delicious.

Brilliant curry house! The food was scrumptious and the service excellent. A big bunch of us went out last night and we could not have found a better place for our get together. Can’t wait to go back!

I've lived in Oxford 20 years now and long been a big fan of Indian food. For me the Standard is the best Indian in the city, and I've tried most of them. I'm a regular now and they never let you down.

Probably our favourite Indian restaurant partly due to the friendly welcome from the staff. Small around 8 tables, maybe more when restrictions are lifted.Indian cuisine is not my favourite but this restaurant could convince me otherwise. I started with Onion Bhajis, good sized portion and well cooked.My main was a delicious Tamarind Chicken with Mushroom Rice.I would recommend trying a Mango Lhasi, a local yogurt based drink.Lovely evening, hope to return soon

Top notch Indian, best I've had in ages. Not cheap, but we'll worth it.

After moving to Oxford in January we have had both take away from here during lockdown, and have recently visited for dinner. The food is really fresh, and authentic. They are really organised when collecting a take away, its always ready on time. When we came in for dinner the service was wonderful, everyone was so friendly - with great food to match. Will definitely be returning

A super little Indian restaurant in a fun neighborhood near the centre of Oxford. The signature prawn dish was outstanding, but everything we had was delicious and well above typical. Plus delightful service. A gem.

Great restaurant and warm atmosphere.

The stand out Indian in Oxford. Superb, authentic Indian cuisine. Wonderful mix of dishes from the Indian staples, to their own unique house specials. Everything down to the breads made with passion, every dish stands out. Whether you’re a visitor or a local, make sure to put the standard at the top of your bucket list.

First visit for a long time due to Covid. Food was spectacular. Poppadums & pickle tray - clean and fresh Chicken vindaloo with a naan bread Chicken in a tamarind and black pepper sauceWe would definitely recommend this lovely restaurant I understand it is the longest established in Oxford

Fabulous food, good service and nice calm atmosphere. A Winner!!!

For my 46th birthday. I had ordered an array of dishes and sides from The Standard. Each dish was individual in taste and presentation. They tasted fresh. Taking alot of care. 👍 iwould highly recommended these. Top quality. Their longevity proves their quality. They have exceeded all my guests expectations. Thank you .. The Standard (nothing Standard) Exceptional!!

Having lived in oxford for 30 years+ we've tried absolutely every Indian in the city and we can safely say that The Standard is head & shoulders above the competition. The food is always fresh and well prepared but the flavours are always spot on. Although we live a few miles from Jericho, delivery has always been around 45 minutes and the food is piping hot & delivered with a smile, even during lockdown. Sadly the vast majority of other Indian restaurants all merge into one. The reason this family business has been around for decades is because its really good!

Ordered some food for the family. From people that took my order to the driver that brings it ....really nice and friendly..with good recommendations....Food is simply delicious. Is our favourite place for this tipe of food

Really enjoyed our meal, Had 2 vegetarian mains & 2 vegetarian sides - all 4 were great, very tasty, tasted fresh. Also booked delivery which went very smoothly & was punctual

We love the Standard. The food is always delicious and we particularly appreciate the attention to vegetarian food. It's the best Indian restaurant in the area, and we have tried a few!

Massive ripoff prawn curry for £15 with a spoonful of sauce and 4 small prawns. Will not be visiting here again.