The Vine inn in Vale of White Horse

We were made very welcome food was home made and very tasty good value for money the atmosphere was very warm and homely

The Vile Inn indeed. Inhospitable staff does not really make the place worth the visit. Wonder if the proprietors have realised yet that customers might be important for their pub restaurant.

Excellent cottage pie, best I’ve ever had. Great staff and a good pint.

I only had one bitter shandy and my better half had a few glasses of wine. My drink took a long time to arrive?? from a different bar (out of sight) and was extremely flat. It felt like slops of old or perhaps very little lemonade? I didn't complain as I'd already had a bad day.

Good food and beer. Friendly owners. We visit this pub regularly and always feel welcome. Lovely beer garden too. Quiz nights,Morris Dancing, Aunt Sally, its a great place to unwind.

A good lunch,and it's only £15 pp for 2 courses for pensioner's on a Wednesday

visited after reading good reviews on opentable and it exceeded expectations. Well set table with clean linen. Friendly staff/landlord. Only one cask ale but it was smooooth. Very tasty Sunday roast with a large portion of vegetables all cooked well. A few things on the menu not available but it was a very quiet January. Big windows looking out on to the garden, would be great in fine weather.

We had a family meal here for a special occasion and we received such a warm welcome. All of our requests were accommodated without issue. The food was delicious and the service was faultless. We had a really special time and will be returning.

A lovely warm welcome - enjoyed the Christmas menu - fabulous Christmas decorations the best I have seen in a pub so far - good choice of wines and beers - worth a visit

Rude, belligerent and no wonder it’s empty most of the time. Just wanted to relax over a pint, but got shouted at when asked if food was available. Apparently they were understaffed while seemed more overwhelmed. No greetings, no thanking customers. More go away and don’t bother us. Avoid the place, much better options around the corner.

Lasagne cold in the middle, salad = leaves only!😔

Great fireworks night thank you

Party of 14. Food good. I think our numbers overwhelmed them as the service was slow.

...and not for the right reason! Greeted by what can only be described as a sourpuss landlady, so rude! No wonder the place is always empty. The food was nice but not nice enough to encourage you to return.

The landlady is extremely rude ... I am not sure why she is in hospitality. Ruined our family dinner. No wonder this once wonderful pub is empty. Sack the staff who whisper continually behind the bar to each other and start again!

Terrific lunch in the beautiful garden. Welcoming hosts excellent food with generous portions . Highly recommended.

Drink only in the lovely garden.

Great food, great staff, comfortable and elegant interior, definitely recommended.

Absolutely lovely home cooked food with friendly staff and good choices of drinks. Also a great garden.

A lovely little pub, great food, great service, will definitely be back 👍👍👍

The pub was almost empty so hard to gauge atmosphere but service was friendly, we enjoyed it

Nice homely traditional atmosphere. Good beer. Nice food. Really good steaks. Friendly service.

Whilst staying locally, we were looking for a proper country pub with great food. The Vine Inn was recommended and didn’t disappoint. We received a warm welcome and an overview of the menu. A great selection of traditional favourites available. Lots of beers and wines to choose from too. The pub is quite spacious and I was very impressed with the large garden. Highly recommended.

The ambience is very nice, the service is very friendly and the food is top notch. I will go there more often.

Looked after well here, the food is great and the pub garden is lovely, perfect for children.

Excellent food, Excellent service, lovely interior and a great pub garden! Would recommend to all!

The pub has a lovely and spacious outdoor area, I was lucky enough to visit on a day when they had a steak offer! Steak + pudding for only £20, the food was delicious.

Didn’t have pretty much the only vegan item on the menu. The substitute had a long hair entangled in the salad. The southern fried chicken goujons were just tasteless deep fried chicken slices dripping in grease . Chips were nuked and the onion rings were also just dripping in grease. Big dead daddy long legs on the table aswell that we relocated to the shelf next to us. Nearly £50 for the pleasure , well overpriced for bland tasteless overcooked greasy food that made me feel quite sick! With all that said The waitress was lovely and very friendly.

Great location and although the food was decent pub food the landlady was at best miserable and rather destroyed the whole experience

Lovely setting for a pub let down by the lack of welcome by the landlady in particular even though the pub was empty. What a pity

Really nice garden at the back of the Inn, friendly staff and food was great.

I ate the burger, and it was one of the best I've ever eaten, and I generally only ever eat burgers. Prices are more on the expensive side but if all the food is of the burgers quality then it's well worth it.

'Highly recommend this place, stopped in for some much needed nourishment on a very cold and windy day, I had the sticky bbq porkbelly bites with these crackling crumbs sprinkled on top and a cabbage slaw which was exquisite presentation and lovely flavours all round. The food came out very quickly too then I had the king prawn and chorizo linguini which was again well presented and full of flavour. Place seemed a little bit empty and couldn't understand why with such beautiful surroundings and great food too. A lovely open fire welcomes you on the way in too and very cosy. Will definitely visit again.....'

Rude, unwelcoming staff… Go to the bear instead.

We visited on Wednesday lunchtime to celebrate our relatives 90th birthday. We had a wonderful time from the moment we stepped through the door. We were greeted with a friendly welcome, hot fresh food, lovely drinks and great service. Everywhere was spotlessly clean. They made a special occasion even better. We will definitely return. Everyone needs to know about this little gem!

Perfect pub for every season! Outside area for summer and glorious fireplace for winter! Food and service impeccable. Highly recommend!

Excellent roast lunch and good service.

No atmosphere and landlords not very friendly.

Dropped in for a pint as I'd not been before. Very quiet at the bar, not the most welcoming initial vibes. Interesting choice of muzak on the radio, and interior seating could do with an update. All the cask ale pumps were off. A pub with potential, at least the fire was lit.

Went for the first time this evening for the BBQ and fireworks, what a lovely place, staff were lovely, very warm and cosy. Definitely will return! Thanks 😊

Friendly welcome from the landlords. Lovely pub, food looks great too.

10/10 Roast dinner. Been struggling to find a decent one recently but this was perfect! The cauliflower cheese was banging and I left the plate empty. I’m a big fan of the veg and find a lot of places don’t put enough on (the same with gravy), but I couldn’t fault the Vines. Dessert was also great, I had sticky toffee pudding. Could’ve done with a bit more custard or some more options on the menu but can’t knock what I had!

Really nice Sunday roast, nice selection of beers too

What a pleasant surprise, a proper pub, serving excellent food with friendly staff- a rare gem, thoroughly recommend it!

Excellent service in a very cosy venue, with tasty food

Lovely beer garden and the food was delicious! Will definitely come back!

Nice pub , nice people .... Shame they beat us at crib 😂😂😂

As a local resident who would dearly love a friendly, cosy, community based pub the Vine is a shambles. Hostile management/staff, average food, no quizzes, garden events, music. Ultra bright lighting in the main bar. I know many local friends wishing the pub would up its game, maybe ask locals for feedback, send us a questionnaire- you could improve SOOO much (and make a fortune in the process), but instead you plod on, changing chefs every once in a while. This pub is usually empty, which is no surprize at all. Such a shame!!!!!!!!

The better of the two pubs in the village I grew up. The library room is lovely, as is the garden. Very nice couple running it, great fish and chips. Much better than the very poncy and impersonal Bear and Ragged Staff.

Best fish and chips ever! Comfortable and relaxed bar, fine beers. Beer garden looks nice, too, if it wasn’t cold and wet out there

Nice country pub with garden having children's area

We stopped en route to Oxford, what a little treasure. The menu was different to standard pub lunch and the food was absolutely delicious. Would highly recommend. The Landlord was super and squeezed us in without a booking. Don’t pass this little gem without popping in !!!?

Lovely garden on a nice day. I thought the menu could have been better.

Last minute Sunday lunch. We were on our way home and rather than find a cafe we pulled in and asked if they could fit us both in for a lunch. Very impressed. We had proper table linen. We both left out starters and had...

Wanted to celebrate our anniversary but didn't want to do the catering so sounded out Richard at The Vine to see if they could do it. Chatted with Chef Driss who organised the menu and gave us a great selection of meals. All 40 meals...

Lovely staff, lovely food for a family celebration.

Had a lovely lunch at the Vine today. Great food, lovely beer and a warm welcome. Beautiful fish pie and the Vine Ale (made by Ringwood) was excellent. Highly recommended.

Delightful ! Sitting in the beautiful garden in the sunshine and enjoying a delicious fish pie.... a great end to having done a walk that morning. Staff were very very pleasant . and coffee, freshly made was served with proper milk ...yippee. Lovely atmosphere.

Lovely little pub, stopped in for lunch on the way back from Silverstone. Foods was tasty, especially the fish pie and parsnip soup. Highly recommended!!

Popped in saturday after a track day at silverstone. Fantastic little pub with a passionate chef serving great food. Highly recommend visiting and the deserts are not to be missed!

We enjoyed a really well cooked, tasty evening meal here. We were visiting Oxford for a few days and we ate in a few pubs over that time and most meals we had were pretty bland. The Vine Inn was such a pleasant surprise: great service, good wine and lovely food. The hosts are friendly and chatty. Highly recommended.

We are regulars at this wonderful pub and were really excited to try the new menu. It did not disappoint! We were spoilt for choice reading through the menu which includes options for lighter lunches and children. Our starters - the mussels and the poached...

Welcoming hosts , lovely traditional pub with gardens, food good quality and price ,would definitely recommend. 👌

Well what a lovely couple val and richard were so helpful and doing it all on there own .

I came to the vine for lunch with my mum and sister and the meals were not good at all we waited a while for our food, the fish was over cooked and I have some plastic on my plate with the food and the...

We visited as we were going to Blenheim palace and wanted somewhere for food before we headed back home (hour and a half drive!) so wanted something to eat before we left! The food was sent in good time and the staff are lovely, they...

I have to say this was the worst Sunday lunch that I’ve ever experience, over priced and served on a child’s plate. I started with the pate, the bread was slightly toasted on one side and had to be returned to the kitchen two more...

Very quiet when we got there but the host was most amiable. The food was all freshly cooked, the portions were generous and of good quality. Like lots of gastropubs, one day they are very busy, the next quiet so staffing is awkward. Be prepared to wait for your food but it was worth waiting for.

Went for a family Christmas meal, Rich and Val are lovely hosts, food was incredibly tasty and plentiful, the pub itself is a lovely oldy world venue with wooden beams and floors, good ales and wines. Will be back and highly recommend visiting.

Had a great evening for our Christmas meal here tonight. Food was great, service was on point, and the host made us feel so welcome. Thank you.

A good roast lunch although piled high on much too small plates. Importantly, although we made it clear on booking that my husband was coming on a mobility scooter, we were not told that the (excellent) accessible toilet was not available at the moment. This resulted in a very difficult half hour negotiating the entrance to the normal 'gents'. Rather spoilt the whole experience.

Excellent curry last night. Try their curry night every Wednesday evening.

Honestly the worst restaurant I have ever been to. The staff were poor (what they had of them), the food was diabolical and the manger was delusional. Do not waste your time or money going here as the only guarantee you will be getting is...

So disappointed with Sunday lunch here. Over cooked beef, over cooked broccoli and clearly reheated rather than freshly cooked roast potatoes. I’m a regular pub goer on a Sunday, but sadly won’t be returning here.

Five of us went for lunch on a Wednesday and it was fabulous. the Vine Inn is a lovely pub with very friendly staff who are more then willing to help with menu choices and requests. The food was fresh and cooked to order, the...

Sadly it was nothing more than an overloaded pile of slop. Everything about it was terrible and we won’t be going back. Couldn’t wait to just pay the bill and get out of there.

Went to the Vine for lunch on Saturday when the family came to visit. It was a busy day and as we had a small dog with us we were asked to take a table in the adjacent front bar. We were made comfortable on...

24th October Sunday lunch, 12.30 table for two. I ordered pâté to start and was a little surprised when it arrived thinly sliced on one piece of warm, not toasted, rustic bread. I tried to spread it but the consistency was too firm, tasted pleasant...

We have passed this pub many time from when we go fishing on farmoor reservoir. This time we decided to call in to see if we could have a table for food and a few drink. Very good food. Beer was good. We will be back

We popped in for a pint on a Saturday afternoon at 4:30pm. The place was dead, there was only us and one other customer. We decided to have two pints of Birra Moretti which is normally a guaranteed decent pint but this tasted disgusting, it...

Very good food and very clean and friendly

Nice pub good food reasonable prices.

Located close to Farmoor Reservoir (where we often walk) and possessed of a large garden with sympathetic landscaping. Staff were up against it when we visited because of a crisis in the kitchen. While we had a long wait for food, it was well worth it. All dishes tasted great. Presentation suffered, but they got it right where it counted. Service with a smile in trying circumstances. This was our first visit but we shall be back.

Great food very friendly good beer highly recommended

There is a lively garden and lived watching the fish lucky enough to watch Richard feed the fish very clean. The food is delicious the salmon was cooked right for my palette and the sauce devine I was very full loved the combination of basmati rice, herbs and beetroot. The portion sizes are true Yorkshire looking forward to coming again. We were seated in the library looking out to the garden. Leah was attentive and discrete. Thank you Richard and Val.

staff members VERY rude. this has been my local for 6 years and never have i ever been turned away and huffed at for asking for food after reserving a table online. my mother and father come in here regularly and are appalled by my recent visit to the vine.(they went in for a drink the same evening and got completely different treatment)me and my partner went into the vine at around 2pm on saturday 31st of july. myself who is 7 months pregnant booked into the vine online (which we never usually do , normally just walk in) for some lunch as i hadn’t eaten for a few hours after shopping and needed to sit down. we stop at the bar to ask for our table and we are huffed at as if it’s a chore to seat us , when asked if we were here for food or drink and we reply with food , we are again huffed at and told they can’t seat us - baring in mind there was about 4/5 empty tables and many tables empty outside as there was only 2 of us. not sure what the problem is as we were just stopping for lunch but absolutely appalled with the mannerism and attitude from this place. the vine used to be a lovely & very welcoming place but now you get made to feel annoying due to wanting some lunch at your local. i was also desperate for the toilet but after we were made to feel like we were irritating bar staff by asking for some food i didn’t feel comfortable asking to use the toilet , which being pregnant is very uncomfortable to hold in as the baby sits on my bladder. we also were made to feel uncomfortable by the food runners as they were staring quite unpleasantly at us - obviously annoyed that we wanted food and it was just too much of a chore for them. in future - if you don’t have tables , maybe politely ask us to leave rather than huffing and puffing through your teeth. hopefully this helps. thank you.

Lovely friendly staff and nice beer, could do with a pool table though to offer something different from other pubs in the area.

We have visited a few times as its convenient, but every time, we have come away wishing we hadn't!The landlord & landlady quite simply should't be in customer service rolls of any kind. Rude, patronising, unfriendly, and thoroughly over the top with Covid restrictions, which is ironic given the landlady doesn't wear a mask.Service is dreadful, even though the pub was virtually empty, and one or both of the management always seem to be standing around smoking.About the only good thing is that the garden is rather nice, although they have fenced off the children's play area, stating Covid as the reason, although I have not seen any of the play equipment closed in any other pub.AVOID!

Awful , awful , awful . Place was empty but still waited over an hour for fish & chips and lasagna. Lasagna was burnt at sides, cheap meat but thankfully a small portion as it was horrible . Not a good time, there are much better places out there. AVOID

Met friends here for lunch today. It was an internet pick as it was a convenient location and it turned out to be an excellent choice. It is a lovely traditional pub with tasty pub food and despite there only being two people front of house the service was very efficient.

I'm rating it above average for now, cos though I like the village vibe, I haven't been able to grab a meal yet in my many visits. The timing seems not to work as they close for a couple of hours midday. It has a nice outdoor area which is usually not full when I visit. However, it should definitely work well if you're with your own group.

Friendly service, good pub food, beautiful garden

All good, nothing special..did seem a bit ott on the covid rules

Yes absolutely brilliant could hardly eat it all 4 vegetables, what a plate of food for a Sunday roast Thanks

We had a friendly welcome and very efficient introduction to The Vine and their facilities and social distancing rules. Val took very good care of us making sure we had everything we needed. Food and drink arrived promptly and Val was keen to make sure we were well looked after. Great pub, Excellent good, great service and a beautiful beer garden to enjoy it in! Highly recommended! Try the guilty fries! 😊

Visited on a quiet afternoon. Sat in the garden area as the inside was still closed due to covid restrictions. Very long wait to order even though we were in plain view. Extremely longer wait for the food. But it was delicious when it arrived.

Great food and beer, very friendly welcome and we were able to stay in our camper in the car park

Covid aware with good protocols........really nice ambience........very pleasant server and excellent pub food, really can’t praise them enough. Had not been to the Vine for many a long year, but will be back very soon, it ticked all the boxes!

We had truly wonderful and pleasant meal at this rather lovely establishment, luscious food and a spectacular marquee with scrumptious heating ...would highly recommended this Oxfordshire public house 😌

Lovely place good service and a safe environment