JoJo's Cocktail & Pizza Bar Oxford

You'll find yourself on Cowley Road, that stretched-out artery of Oxford nightlife where things actually happen, pushing through the door of somewhere that doesn't feel like it's trying too hard. JoJo's has the kind of energy that suggests the bartenders know what they're doing and the kitchen takes pizza seriously—not the Instagram-bait kind, but the actual good kind. The cocktail list reads like someone's been thinking about it properly, and when your pizza arrives from the wood-fired oven, you'll understand why people keep coming back. It's got that rare quality of being genuinely buzzy without ever feeling pretentious or overcrowded in the way so many places on this stretch do.