Spice Lounge (Oxford)

Spice Lounge is an indian restaurant located in Summertown towards the North of Oxford. It's less than a 10 minute bus ride from Oxford City Centre & is also a 5 minute walk from a pay & display car park. It's open for lunch & dinner, offering the chance to eat in or take away. Because I work quite nearby, some of my workmates & I visit here every month or so to treat ourselves. They offer a special 2 course lunchtime menu for £8 which is very reasonable for what you get. So the big question you're wondering is how good is the food served at this venue? Well I've got to say from the numerous times I've visited, it's been very nice ...  Read the complete review

Having only ever gotten takeaway from Spice Lounge, this review refers exclusively to the food they offer. The menu is surprisingly varied, and the prices reasonable; on top of this, they offer free home delivery, and free popadum and chutney's. The sum of this is that I was feeling good things before I picked up the phone. The second pleasant surprise was the delivery time; we ordered at 9.30PM on a Saturday evening and so were expecting a wait, but our food arrived within 30 minutes. Popadums were crisp, food was very hot, and everything arrived as it should; so far so good. This is normally the part of the story where things start to take a turn for the ...  Read the complete review

In a sentence: Good Value, Vibrant, Modern Indian. I was introduced to Spice Lounge by my husband's 100 year old grandmother! But the place on Banbury Road is modern and with no flock wallpaper in sight: brown-leather covered dining chairs, reasonably tasteful photos of India and food-related items on the walls, cube-like tables. The service was welcoming and friendly, and the food, on this and another visit, was excellent, and at reasonable prices, especially for Summertown in Oxford. The welcome plate of poppadums comes with a selection of lovely sauces, and the curries themselves are few notches above your average Indian local/take ...  Read the complete review