The Unicorn Inn - Cherwell

In deddington over the weekend for a family party and stayed at the Unicorn. Will definitely be our regular to to on our visits. The hosts were warm and welcoming as we're the staff. The good was excellent. The accommodation brilliant best two nights sleep I have had. Would highly recommend.

Yea! The Uncorn has it's mojo back. Newly refurbished, by new publicans, Mark and Hanna, it offers friendly, competant staff, decent wines and a small but perfectly formed lunch menu. There was nothing surprising on the menu but our meals, sea bass and mussles, were quality foods, perfectly cooked and were standout delicious. The mussel broth was the best I had ever eaten and I've eaten lots. Lucky Deddington!

So let me take you through my dinner Friday night, when I arrived an elderly lady in a staff top refused to serve me because she didn’t know how to pour a pint despite being the only one behind the bar for 20 mins. After we sat down and ordered food we were told we weren’t allowed it because the menu wasn’t updated and they didn’t have half of what we ordered and the girl behind the bar thought she was a joker for making fun of me for ordering a Camembert on my own... thanks. We spent more time waiting for our food than Anne frank waited in her loft and when it finally came out it looked like my mum got red wine drunk and through up on the pavement on a hot summers day. To top it all off one of the regulars bumped into me and told me to do one. Cheers

There may be a landlord 's name above the door but in the dozen times I 've been there has been no sign of a landlord. A teenager running the bar, fire places with no fires, a restaurant with no visible menu and closing at odd hours. Why did Charles Wells spend so much money on a refurb to end up with a truly awful place like this. I met the new 'landlord ' before the refurb and he promised a great pub..........where is it?

We came to visit here after hearing the new owner was starting to make a bit more effort with his business after a year of being there. We were greeted by fag butts all over the floor, along with a load of rubbish and flower beds full of junk and fag butts. Not the greatest welcome, but we continued. The entrance corridor was dark and half lit by fairy lights on the ceiling. No one was really in the pub, apart from a couple of what I assume to be locals sitting at the bar. The bar area was a mess, with bottles everywhere, dirty glasses (not sure where they came from as the pub was empty). We asked to look at a menu and was handed a folded and ripped bit of paper, which was strewn with spelling and grammar mistakes. The guy behind the bar looked totally at a loss surrounded by mess on his own. The coffee machine was surrounded by dirty napkins and sachets of sugar, with a pint of milk sat out on the side (not in the fridge). The floors don’t seem to have been washed since 2015, and don’t even get me started on the windows. What was once a beautiful beer garden is now covered with tents and tables are stacked in the flower beds. There’s no real sign of life outside apart from the mould that seemed to be growing in the ash trays. The pizza oven is filled with fag butts and rubbish, something I’m sure environmental health would have a field day with. I was also suggested to go upstairs to the ‘pool room’ a room with sticky floors, sticky tables and more strewn rubbish. The pool table barely works without a good kick in told. I popped outside of said pool room to find a stair case leading down to the garden covered in glass and yeah you guessed it fag butts. It’s such a shame that this lovely little pub has been treated with such lack of respect, and it is now so far away from its former glory that its hard to believe it will ever regain it. I will not be coming back.