Reviewed
4.98

The Mongolian Wok Bar - How to describe this absolutely unique restaurant is an entertaining challenge. If you can imagine DIY stir-fry, you're close. If you can imagine a "Salad Bar" of pick-and-choose main course ingredients, you are closer. If you can imagine all-you-can-eat tasty spicy food tailored especially to your tastes, you're there.

The Mongolian Wok Bar is, without a doubt, my favourite eat-out in Oxford. The principle is based on a fixed price for the evening (not including drinks), a starter of Dim Sum, followed by a trip down to the Wok, a 2 meter-wide metal plate on which food is constantly being cooked by a team of chefs. Nearby a salad-bar filled with meats, fish, noodles, vegetables, spices and sauces awaits your selection. Then simply douse with a ladle of vegetable stock, hand to a chef, watch him cook it for a few minutes, then return to your table where a bowl of steaming rice will have magically appeared. Add the rice, grab a chopstick or two and tuck in!

The Mongolian Wok Bar starts at around £11.50 per person for the evening, but don't eat lunch that day and you'll be a happy camper. Highly recommended.

S.P.