Oscar's Wine Bar & Bistro

You'll find Oscar's wedged into that particular stretch of Swinegate where the medieval city starts feeling actually lived-in rather than purely touristic. It's the kind of place where locals genuinely outnumber visitors, which tells you everything. The wine list is taken seriously—genuinely seriously, not performatively so—and the food sits somewhere between classic French bistro and something with a bit more contemporary edge. The room itself has that warm, slightly worn-in charm that comes from actually being somewhere people want to return to, rather than somewhere designed to look like people should want to return to.