Ashmolean Rooftop Restaurant

The food was overpriced and the portions were small. The service was also slow. I wouldn’t recommend it.

Lovely venue with a good ambience. Our waiter Cesar was friendly and efficient.

We had an enjoyable lunch, with great service from Paloma.
LH

Good service, good food, what else do you need ?

The hard floor, walls and ceiling make it very noisy. Heaven knows what it is like when it is busy.

Nice place to meet up what food was ordered was pleasant but not a lot of filling for the price the service was not great had to ask for waitress back on a few occasions for silly little mistakes but overall would visit again and try afternoon visit instead

Meat eaters said food was superb / vegetarian menu options were moderate and food disappointing. We like the lunchtime ambience of the Ashmolean restaurant, but will not be hurrying back for dining - still recommend for afternoon coffee. Lunchtime service slow - make sure you order bread and olives...

Great location with interesting food choices
Service was really excellent...friendly without being over familiar and very accommodating.
Only slight criticism was that the Thai fishcakes were advertised with a salad, but this proved to be little more than a garnish

Really lovely food, excellent unobtrusive service.

We had a nice lunch but the menu choice was a little unexciting and a bit disappointing unfortunately.

We are regulars. Last Thursday was great, as noted,with our Slovakian waitress a great bonus. I am not sure what your “What would you recommend this restaurant for” adds anything useful to our assessment.I would ditch it !i

Although it was a little disappointing that two starters and one main was off the menu (quite small to start with) the food we had was fantastic. The braised beef was perfect. No hesitation in recommending this place.

Food although still good not as tasty as I have had there before.

Food was moderate. Service was great. We were really looking forward to dining at this restaurant, we were somewhat disappointed by the standard of the food. The dishes sound great on the menu, but not quite live up to the description when served. Overuse of onions.

Having said that, I would go back. The atmosphere is great, we had a wonderful waiter - a complete professional. Afternoon tea looked great, so we shall give it another chance and hope the food improves.

Expensive for what it was. We were on a Groupon deal that although said it was for 2 courses plus a glass of prosecco it did not cover that - only a contribution towards the courses and fizz. The bill when it came was very odd and not at all transparent. Rather than listing the amounts spent and then taking off the allocated amount from the voucher (which I think was £61 per couple) - there were odd sums listed including over £4 for the Prosecco and other amounts for the starters and mains. All very hard to understand and we were left feeling it was not good value for money.

Very disappointed with the food on this occasion. Have been to your restaurant before and unfortunately this visit was no where near the quality of previous visits. Food was not very hot, potatoes under cooked and veg, the portion for a child. We were with family who would have got embarrassed if we complained so we put up with the conditions of the food. Why skimping on the veg is necessary as it is cheap to buy. The potatoes tasted like they were old and cooked from raw rather than had been par-boiled first before roasting.
Not a value for money meal unfortunately.

Went to Ashmolean for my birthday with friends and the service, setting and food made my birthday meal an excellent occasion. Would recommend to anyone wanting a great setting with excellent service and delightful food.

Very nice location away from the Summer tourist crowds in Oxford. Food and service good if not outstanding. Eating outside would be great on a nice day. Would revisit.

We waited almost 50 minutes for our very simple food (chicken and chips), though the food was good when it arrived, when paying my bill I was dismayed at the attitude of the manageress who seemed entirely unconcerned at the long wait we had had
The ambience was very pleasant, but the service so poor I would strongly recommend The Ashmolean formally assesss customer satisfaction
A very disappointed customer

We sat inside but sadly our afternoon tea was ruined by wasps. The food was quite nice but the price was £££, afternoon tea for 3 plus a hot chocolate was over £50! And we vacated before we’d finished as there was about 10 wasps over the food, table, children. Not the celebration tea we’d have hoped for.

Lovely lunch in the sunshine. Food and wine first class. Extremely friendly and helpful waitresses. Menu small but interesting . Would highly recommend. Fits in very well with the whole experience of a wonderful museum

Disappointing
I have previously lunched at the restaurant and thought it was excellent in every way.
This time we found some of the food tasteless and disappointing. There was a delay in serving one main course.Staff were very helpful and friendly as they wrre previously.

The staff member who greeted me couldn't find my reservation and was rescued by her colleague.

The roast chicken was overlooked.
The lamb was very good.
The roast pork very good also.

Service slow - manager very good but not backed up by staff.

Food very average.

Atmosphere great. Would give benefit of the do By and try again.

A perfect place for a relaxed Friday evening meal with friends. Casual enough to kick back, special enough to feel like a celebration treat.

Very tasty, well presented food, lovely.

A lovely, enjoyable setting but found the jazz music, though very good, far too loud to have a relaxed conversation over dinner. If the volume level could have been turned down a notch or three, as background music, it would have made for a much more relaxed dining experience.

Music (particularly saxophone) was so loud it literally was impossible to hear anything. My wife and I were unable to carry on a conversation and the waiters had to shout repeatedly for us to communicate. Food was so-so at best. Rooftop location was attractive, but nevertheless disappointing overall, considering the recommendation we had received from friends.

I had wanted to dine at this restuarant for some time so I was really looking forward to it. I met up with my brother and had a quick look around the museum first and that was stunning also. We agreed we needed to return to see more

The food and service at the restuarant were excellent and we went for the whole three courses and a bottle of wine. It was lovely food and the wine was very good. betwern two of us the cost was reasonable. I would definitely eat there again. The outside area was flanked with beautiful flowers.

Lovely setting and fabulous jazz on Thursday. Staff coped very well with a sudden downpour but as a female dining alone this time I noticed the difference from when I'm with family- I tended to get left till last! Vegetarian & gluten free choice was not great either!

Great venue with good menu. The sudden rainfall could have been managed by staff a little better but then recent heatwave has given little chance for rehearsal!

Great ambience and service. Vegetarian meal a little dry.

Booked table online for 2.15pm hoping to have afternoon tea. Told afternoon was served between 3.00-4.30pm and nothing was ready. Disappointed. Only wanted a pot of tea and couple of scones!

Lovely food / great location with lovely views from the rooftop...
Would recommend the cheesecake - amazing!

Special place to have a lovely meal in the roof top terrace restaurant. Friday nights comes with some live jazz too. Food is fresh and delictely cooked. Staff very attentive. A lovely experience I keep going back to.

A lovely day to sit out on the roof terrace and enjoy the hot weather, sunshine and excellent special of the day - sea bream with celeriac mash, peas, samphire and a white wine sauce. Service good without being intrusive.

Good news:
Nice food, but not particularly special
Rooftop garden is lovely
Excellent service- very attentive and polite

Bad news:
One vegan option
WAY over priced for what you get.

We will definitely return to the museum but probably not to the restaurant. You're spoilt for choice in Oxford- Ashmolean Restaurant needs to up its game for the prices they charge.

lunch in the rooftop terrace was very enjoyable, would certainly return

Roast cod with black squid crust was absolutely delicious!

Delightful venue for treating family to a delicious lunch.

We were celebrating our golden wedding and had visited Oxford for the day on Friday July 20th. We booked the rooftop restaurant for the evening meal as a pleasant end to our day.
We sat outside because it was warm and realising that rain was likely we hoped to finish our meal before the rain came. My soup of the day was cold and had very little flavour. My husband had the ham hock terrine and it was equally bland. We both had the Guinea fowl which again was luke warm and with some cold veg under it. There is clearly a problem in the kitchen if food can't be delivered to the tables hot. We had one glass of wine with our meal and tap water. We then had a dessert each which was ok but not worth £6 by any stretch of the imagination.
After that we went indoors because it was beginning to rain and had a tea for myself and what should have been a double espresso for my husband but was actually a cappuccino. We also had two very poor quality limoncello liqueurs. There was jazz entertainment beginning so it was beginning to get noisy. When we were ready to leave we were presented with a staggering bill of £84 which included a service charge. It was altogether a really bad experience and we were glad to leave when we finally managed to get a bill. Very poor management and terrible cooking.

Good choice of food excellently cooked and delivered by attentive staff.