The Red Lion, Wolvercote
Banks's
Monday to Saturday 11am to 11pm
Sunday 12 noon to 10.30pm

Banks's Bitter £1.64
Banks's Smooth £1.84
Marston Pedigree £1.83
Coffee £1.04 (per mug)
Big bag of crisps 50p (13.xii.1997)

Reasonable range, about the same as the White Hart across the road, but a 
bit less real-aley somehow. Coffee more expensive than in the Kings Arms, 
beer less so. Log fire, but otherwise a bit brown and a bit plain, and 
they don't serve food in the afternoons. The worst bit is definitely the 
piped music in the facilities. I don't want to wash my hands to the 
accompaniment of the late John Denver singing "When a Child is Born". 
(14.xii.1997)
Henry Braun adds:
By contrast, the pub in lower Wolvercote nearest to the Trout (big one 
with garden on S-bend) does not very cheap food in miserly portions with 
nothing to recommend it at all. The sort of restaurant atmosphere dreamt 
up by a pub designer who wants to break into lucrative motorway 
service-station work. Don't eat.