The Temple Bar (Wadworth)
Temple Street, Oxford
Oh dear. Here is the old review that describes the pub before renovation
in August 2000:
The service is friendly. There's a TV in the corner which has subtitles
on it, in case you'd watch to watch it, a "beer garden" which isn't
advertised as such, and consists of a concrete back garden with a few park
benches, some of them in unsittable-on geometries.
The Tanglefoot is an excellent feature of the pub. There used to be
rather more ultraviolet and red lighting in the pub, which made it look a
fair bit seedier than it either was or looks now. Lighting more
conventional these days. Pine tables. Camp landlord. (1998-12-15)
Now it's very bright, almost Mockintosh in places, and full of rectangles
and undergraduates. There is nothing on cask, keg 6X and Henry's IPA and
a giant Connect Four. There are more televisions now, showing MTV rather
than BBC1.
(2001-06-05)