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Spiced Roots

Spiced Roots

64 Cowley Road, Oxford, United Kingdom, OX4 1JB

Steak • Vegan • Caribbean • Vegetarian


"I've been going to Oxford for 3 years now and in that time to be frank struggled to find a decent go to restaurant. I can now say with delight i've found my destination. I present SPICED ROOTS a little caribbean culinary gem. The fresh perfectly cooked food is absolutely delicious and gives off that home cooked by mummy vibe and is beautifully presented. The chilli and garlic prawns had my eyes closed Mark Weins style (if you know you know) so juicy with an incredible depth of flavour, the Trini doubles not only were seasoned to perfection they left you wanting more and the Jerk chicken spring rolls were an absolute triumph. For mains we had the ackee and callaloo Jerk Tempah (vegetarian) and the Jerk chicken. Both came with rice peas, plaintain and salad. Not only were the portions huge the flavours of both dishes were just mind blowingly delicious. Then we embarked on dessert and had the beautiful spiced rum cake and a selection of 3 home made ice creams namely Coconut, Guinness and the old Caribbean favourite Rum and Raisin, all recommended by the owner. It's at this point I feel compelled to speak about the rum raisin ice cream. I've eaten this ice cream on numerous occasions at numerous locations in Jamaica over my many years and I tell you no word of a lie this was hands down the best rum and raisin ice cream I've ever tasted, it literally left us speechless. So to summarise, this place has great food, great music, great service and a wonderfully charming owner who's totally invested in serving great, incredibly tasty, authentic Caribbean food clearly prepared with love. What more could you ask for. Fair to say it was meant to be. Uncle Jay."

Temakinho Soho

Temakinho Soho

10 Old Compton StreetW1D 4TF, London, United Kingdom

Fusion • Mexican • Italian • Japanese


"Bar Salsa is definitely going to become a favourite place of mine to visit on a regular basis. I discovered it two weekends ago whilst exploring Soho, Covent Garden and Leicester Square with a friend. We were keen to catch up and so wanted to find a bar to sit down and have a relaxing drink. We were attracted to Bar Salsa instantly due to its vibrancy and fairy lights (very girly I know but they really would look lovely in the evening too! We went into the bar which set alight your senses. You just don 't know where to look! It has chic furnishings and quirky murals/paintings on the walls which were so bright and vibrant! Being a creative pair we were became very intrigued by the venue and took a look around downstairs. Downstairs was the 'club/bar ' area very dim let with an array of lights (even disco lights on the dance floor featuring different levels of flooring. It was so exhilarating; we instantly wanted to return on another occasion especially after we discovered they offer salsa nights for minimal money. The thought of dancing away to the Spanish club music soon became too much for us and we decided to return later on with boyfriends in tow (of course they wanted to salsa who wouldn 't?! . We ordered a bottle of wine to share which was good value for money. They also informed us that it would soon be happy hour and all cocktails would be at least half price! We were definitely staying! We sat in the outside courtyard in the sun which was lovely. The ambiance was great with people chatting away, we didn 't even notice the big, busy main road next to us! Happy hour soon arose and we ordered two cocktails at the downstairs bar. These were delicious, some of the best cocktails we had ever had! If we hadn 't had to have left to meet my friend 's boyfriend we would have stayed in there all evening! We did return in the evening but unfortunately didn 't enter as entry price rises after 9:00pm. Although highly disappointed by this we will no doubt return! I rated the Salsa bar a 4.5, we had a delightful experience but we are yet to experience the club and salsa.I definitely recommend any upbeat, easy going person to visit especially if they love music, dancing and cocktails!"

Bubbleology

Bubbleology

64 Upper Street, London, N10NY, N1 0NY, United Kingdom

Pizza • Cafés • Asiatic • Fast Food


"We visited lakeside for my step daughters birthday and decided at the end of our trip to get bubble tea before our journey home. We have been to a few bubble tea places in the past and never had any problems. So as bubbleology was closest we decided to try it. We first had problems when ordering, the gentleman on the till seemed to struggle to take our order but when I see the receipt I see our 5 drinks were correct so went round to wait at the waiting area. Our next problem came when our drinks were ready, only 2 out of 5 of them was correct so after 10 minutes of correcting we finally had our drinks which caused a meltdown for my autistic niece as one of the men who I later found out was the manager was being quite rude. We walked away with our correct drinks and put it behind us laughing a little to ourselves about how difficult it had been just to get some bubble tea. Unfortunately the drama wasn’t over... 3 of the kids who had milky bubble tea that were the ones that had been wrong all started complaining. One was lumpy (which ended with the child gagging and going into another autistic meltdown), the other 2 complaining it didn’t taste right and refusing to drink it. There was definitely something not right with the drinks so we made our way back to bubbleology. The first lady we spoke to was amazing, she was apologetic and offered us a full refund. Unfortunately the manager then got involved and was not so nice and was actually extremely rude and made my mum take one of the drinks out of the bin as one of the kids had thrown the drink in the bin in disgust before we could stop them. He reluctantly gave us our refund (which I am still waiting to reach my bank today) I have never experience a manager with such bad management and people skills. The young lady was amazing though and did help make the situation a little less stressful as i hate confrontation, its a shame she is not the manager. If the young lady is reading this thank you again for your help. It did put a bit of a spoiler to the end of our trip including one of the kids feeling sick. I hope the manager gets some extra training and works on his people skills"