New Dancing Dragon Bar & Restaurant

Head up Banbury Road towards Summertown and you'll find New Dancing Dragon doing what it does best: no-nonsense Chinese food that actually tastes like someone knows what they're doing. The room's got that comfortable, lived-in feel—the kind of place where regulars have their tables and the staff remembers your order. You're looking at proper Cantonese dishes alongside the familiar hits, executed with enough care that you can tell the kitchen isn't phoning it in. The bar's a genuine draw too, not just an afterthought, which makes it a solid option for drinks before or after dinner.