Oxford's top 10 budget eats

27.08.2010 : Kayleigh Hellin

More great news here at Modern Art Oxford - Our café featured number 7 in The Guardian's top ten budget eats in Oxford.

Here's what Tony Naylor had to say...

7. The Yard at Modern Art Oxford

Even in its normal indoor incarnation, the Modern Art gallery's cafe is worth a visit. It does a strong, fruity flat white (coffees from £1.50) and bake a mean cake. Its crazily rich, inch-thick banana, walnut and chocolate brownie has a dense, fondant consistency, more chocolate truffle than cake. You can almost feel your arteries furring up, but what a way to go. It also serves fat gourmet sandwiches (£4.50), salads and savoury tarts, as well bottles of Friel's cider and St Peter's ales (£3.50). However, at the moment, and until 12 September, it's not just food that's attracting people to the Modern Art, but the space itself. In collaboration with architects, dRMM, artist Richard Woods, who specialises in all-encompassing installations, has transformed the Modern Art's delivery bay into a playful temporary cafe, The Yard.

Read the full feature here.

Coffee & Cake in the The Yard

The Yard, photography by Andy Keate

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