2002

Georgina's is a tiny (hence often full) café, and possibly the only upstairs establishment in Oxford's excellent and history-stuffed covered market. It plays cool music, the staff are trendy and attractive, the walls are plastered with old cinema (etc) posters and the daily papers are supplied for you to peruse with your latté. The food is good, on the wholesome side (apart from the usual suspects cake selection) and served on quirky wooden plates as if we were all back in the good old days of 19th century public schooling. You can peer out of the windows at a) the sky, b) the ladies decorating cakes and making marzipan frogs in the ground floor shop opposite, according to preference. However: either because the rent on the charming premises is extortionate, or because Georgina's can't actually fit many customers in it at any one time, the prices are a little high. Be that as it may, you can't beat Georgina's for Oxford ambience.

SEJ