The best restaurants in Cherwell South East

Always great pizza from here. The staff are friendly and the food is good. And there are good deals with collect orders.

Popped into the McDonald’s in Banbury recently, and things are looking good. The food was spot on—hot, fresh, and really tasty. The service was solid too. The staff seemed friendlier and more on top of things, which I’m guessing is down to some good management. Definitely a much better experience than before. I’ll be stopping by more often!

I rang the restaurant about my order and spoke to the worker at the time about the quality of the food, the person kept repeatedly hanging up on me when I'm trying to explain my issue to them. He saying he can't do anything, got no drives and to ring Uber eats and get £5 refund. The food arrived cold. Chips was rubby. Kebab meat was chewy and stale tasting. I asked to speak to a manager and he told me I had to wait till tomorrow at 2pm to speak to a manager. The order cost me £30 and it's was absolutely awful. I've used this place before and this has been the absolute worst experience I've had with them and I wouldn't go back now.

Decided to nip into Starbucks whilst northbound on A34. Got food for all as well as drinks. Wanted to sit in. Order taken by one of the lads and we attempted to pay. It said we paid and then we waited for our stuff. A few mins later they advised us it hadn’t gone through and we’d need to pay again. We said it clearly went through as it said approved. They insisted it didnt and asked us to pay again. We asked for the decline receipt and he said there wasn’t one which we also disputed. As we couldn’t get our food and drink we did as asked and tried to pay again. This time it said it didn’t go through so we tried again. Again it looked as if it went through but they said it didnt. This time we stood our ground and said we wanted to see a decline receipt. They then gave us 2 receipts - one said decline, the other said an issue processing. The third receipt apparently hadn’t come out. We then paid again and apparently all successful. Having been perplexed and annoyed, a few days later we checked the bank statement to find they’d taken money from us multiple times. So each time we said we paid; we had. Now either it’s a scam they are running or their machine is on the blink. Needless to say, our bank are now going to be looking into it to get our money back as it’s very clear that they are the same transaction multiple times in a row but we shouldn’t have to do that. There were plenty of free tables and all looked comfy. None were clean. Clear but not clean. A guy however was seen to be sweeping the floor and wet floor sign were out. We had our stuff and then went to go to the toilet to find them closed. Baring in mind this is a Starbucks at a service area and we purchased from them to sit in, not having toilet facilities open is poor. The food we had however was really nice. Can’t complain about the actual products received at all. Although they did present them to us all over the place…food on one side of the counter with drinks the opposite end. None at the same time. And a lad that appeared to think he ran the show was being a bit of a not very nice person to other staff. Would we stop here again?! Absolutely not. It was the most expensive Starbucks I’ve ever visited after all those additional unnecessary transactions!!!

Good service and no issues, coffee tasted as it should! Tables could do with a clean but nothing too major, staff were polite.