The Porterhouse Grill & Rooms

This is a stylish and delicious restaurant! Had lunch there today with a friend - the steak sandwich with packed with thin steak slices, mushroom relish and salad and was yummy. The accompanying chips were crispy on the outside and soft on the inside - very good! The smoked mackerel pate had loads of flavour, and came with slightly pickled carrot sticks and cucumber slices, plus sourdough toast - a lovely combination of flavours. The coleslaw and the walnut, Stilton and lettuce salads were brilliant. The puddings - chocolate fondant and sticky toffee pudding, both with very good ice cream - were excellent. All the food showed that there is a chef in the kitchen, who cares about providing their customers with a really good experience, and has very good judgment in combining ingredients for tasty results. The Porterhouse is tucked away in Mill Street, just on the Botley Road side of the train station. It is a hidden gem. It deserves to be recognised as one of Oxford’s best restaurants. The room is elegant and sophisticated, but also welcoming and warm. The service is warm and friendly.

The best steak in Oxford, without a doubt! Myself and my partner visited for a business celebration and the Porterhouse far exceeded our expectations. We were quite loyal visitors to a competitor who serve sharing platters, but this establishment blows them out of the water. We shared a cote de boeuf, which came with a very generous portion of chips and salad, cooked perfectly and a really high quality cut of meat. I also had a cocktail which was easily one of the best I’ve ever had, better than some cocktail bars! Nice atmosphere, lovely staff, and an all round great time. Highly underrated, I can’t urge you to visit enough!

Food was amazing. The location is not too far away from city centre if you like to walk, but the road is closed fo roadworks. For that I gave only 4 stars. But at I said,the food is wonderful. The staff was very attentive and friendly. You should try. Nice and clean restaurant. The atmosphere was great, with nice music, which was not too loud, just right.

Enjoyed a Friday lunch here. Lovely decor & ambience, amazing wine & beautiful food. I had the steak, fries & walnut salad, my husband had beer can poulet. Both were absolutely perfect & the wine a perfect accompaniment. The service was extremely friendly. Third visit here for lunch, keen to arrange an evening meal & sample the steak menu.

Visited Porterhouse on a Saturday evening with a group of eleven individuals and have to say everything from start to finish was flawless. The booking arrangements, including follow up on menus and preferences was very slick and when we arrived, we had a wonderful private room. The meal was absolutely delicious and the steak was cooked and seasoned to perfection, some of the best our group had tasted. We were quite a noisy group and the staff were incredibly patient and good natured, even offering a speaker for us to play music. Couldn’t have asked for more from everyone involved - this was part of a stag that I’d organised for my brother, who’s one request was great steak and wine, Porterhouse totally delivered.

Really enjoyed our meal at Porterhouse. Service was great, food excellent. Top 5 steak, and I've had a few in my time. Did well with the aging, the meat just melted in the mouth 😛 If you're in Oxford I recommend it 💯

The staff here are always so friendly and helpful. I have been a few times with my partner and every steak has been better than the last. 100% the best restaurant in Oxford, a steak from anywhere else simply couldnt compare !

We had an enjoyable Thursday lunch here. No one else but us dining, so we did wonder why the service was a bit slower than expected to receive our meal. However the meal itself was nice, my husband and I had a fillet steak each, and our friends had a steak sandwich and steak lunch special. We also had the sticky toffee pudding for dessert. Unfortunately no food pics as we were super hungry by the time the food came so we just went straight for it. Dog friendly. Recommended.

We stopped on our way driving through Oxford. We were hungry and looked on yelp and were so pleased to find this lovely pub. Wonderful ambience and food. Steak was delicious! Great service. And we had a really good chocolate dessert.

A great steakhouse without needing the qualifier in Oxford. I went with my son and had a fantastic sharing steak, comparable to Hawksmoor or a top-US steakhouse. Outside of the pedestrian menu options, they give you a menu of the day's beef, an assortment of sharing rib eyes, porterhouses and chateaubriands, with the size and recommended number of people very clear. Our ribeye (cote de beouf) was incredible, cooked perfectly as ordered with a great char. Nice wine list with good options by the glass, 500 ML carafe or bottle. The only downside was a very, very limited number of starter options. Also nice to get out of the tourist area but stilll only a 10 min walk from the city centre. Hope to get back to Oxford again for another visit.

A great cozy old school steakhouse with delicious steaks. Even better service (Francesca was super sweet and helpful) and excellent draught beer!! A bit pricey but well worth it. Make sure to make time to stop by this amazing place when visiting Oxford.

I am from the United States and know what a great steak taste like. I can tell you, The Porterhouse has some of the best steak I've ever had in my life. Staff is superb and the ambience is excellent. I have been twice now and have left fat and happy both times!

This is a steak-lover's paradise with a bounty of aged-beef cooked to perfection, knowledgeable staff with a passion for sharing the best of British produce and aged steaks with their customers. Tucked away on a quiet residential street, it's worth the visit. The restaurant, which includes a small number of rooms for overnight guests, is tastefully decorated and creates a welcoming atmosphere. Truly worth the visit!

This restaurant is AMAZING!!! One of the best steak restaurants ever and I have been to some of the best Cut, Ruth Chris, Arnie Morton's. The quality of the meat is really top notch. Organic, grass feed - really great. Good wine list, service is great. A must go to in Oxford.

The service is very kind. The restaurant is very convenient to find, the environment is very warm, more and more people will come in.

Grassfed steak is the reason why I came here to see if the UK lives up to standards better than America. Tender and juicy and didn't have to send any back. You made us Men happy!