Comments on: The Magic Cafe http://www.veggieopolis.com/reviews/the-magic-cafe/ ...vegetarian reviews Sun, 06 Dec 2015 09:08:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Ian http://www.veggieopolis.com/reviews/the-magic-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Ian Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:04:58 +0000 http://www.veggieopolis.com/?p=361#comment-404 Since last year it’s changed hands and is now owned run by two women, Jahan and Deki. Jahan was the cook since 2010. Mains now cost £5.70, soups £3, desserts about £2, and coffee £1.50. It’s been repainted but otherwise seems much the same as ever.
I was last there on 16/1/15

]]> By: CovOx http://www.veggieopolis.com/reviews/the-magic-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-317 CovOx Sun, 13 May 2012 20:14:32 +0000 http://www.veggieopolis.com/?p=361#comment-317 As a native of Oxford who lives in Coventry, I’m not sure about the ‘nucleus of hippy culture formed in a supportive 60’s Oxford environment years ago’. A stereotypical and inaccurate view of my former home city. The Magic Cafe wasn’t there in the 80′s never mind the 60′s. When I visited it a few years ago, it was definitely laid back though. I asked for something vegan and it was like, ‘er well yeah, the soup might be’. How can you resist an offer like that?

The one thing that hasn’t changed on Magdalen Road is Giovanni’s barber’s shop which must be run by his grandson by now; it was run by his son why I used to get my barnet cut there. The Inner Bookshop used to be located on the Cowley Road, which has always been a bit of a dive – a ‘multicultural’ dive in modern PC parlance – but still a dive. Still it used to have a half-decent second hand record shop called (I think) Vinyl 3345, where I built up my collection of Buzzcocks records.

Yes, the Iffley Road, just up from which I went to secondary school, is also part of the ‘bohemian’ slumlord-owned bedsitland. Think the bottom end of Earlsdon and you get the picture of the area. This ‘mystical triangle’ – the first time I have ever heard it as that – is not as bad a place to live as Blackbird Leys, but I much prefer living up here in Cov, as it is a much better place to live in terms of the standard of living you can get for the same money, re housing costs etc.

CovOx, Coundon

]]> By: veggieopolis http://www.veggieopolis.com/reviews/the-magic-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-217 veggieopolis Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:43:12 +0000 http://www.veggieopolis.com/?p=361#comment-217 Thanks for that Ruth, I’ve ammended the copy. Mark.

]]> By: Ruth Winnifrith http://www.veggieopolis.com/reviews/the-magic-cafe/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Ruth Winnifrith Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:45:09 +0000 http://www.veggieopolis.com/?p=361#comment-214 The pub opposite is not called the Wonky Bicycle it is the Rusty Bicycle

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