The Plough, Merton

Free House
Closed Monday to Thursday at lunchtimes. 

Theakston's XB £1.80 
Fullers London Pride £1.90 (31.i.98) 

Hint: there is no straightforward route from Otmoor to Merton other than 
the main road from Islip or Charlton-on-Otmoor.  You'll find the service 
here very friendly, and the pub at a weekend lunchtime is full of 
good-natured locals who all know one another (small village, you see). 
Resilient carpet, pleasant conservatory with serving hatch, and I'm told 
that the scampi is well done.  After a morning of wandering round Otmoor 
and getting here the wrong way from Murcott, the food was very welcome. 
Basket meals without vegetables (salad is extra at £1.50, as are extra and 
nonetheless sizeable portions of chips), come in between £3 and £4, and 
other main courses are just over a fiver a shot. 

Beer probably well-kept, but I was sufficiently thirsty not to mind 
particularly if it hadn't been. (1998-01-31)