Boundary House

A nice place in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Great service and good place to have a family meal and a drink.

the boundary house is awesome since it’s been refurbished! i think it was near the end of the summer it reopened as a surf and turf and it is quality!
it’s not part pub, part snotty restaurant, it’s just one big pub now. food is amazing value and atmosphere is excellent, just a fun, nice pub.
if you haven’t been there since the refurbishment it’s worth a visit, order the surf and turf cluck burger, it’s around £5 and will probably fill you up for the rest of the day.

A recent visit to the Boundary House was shocking! Have previously visited this pub for food and drinks and used to find it a good place to lunch with colleagues.
The latest visit was a shock to the system! I had lunch with a friend, the service at the table was good but the food was very poor — the steak was more fat than meat which left it inedible and the other meal was very mediocre. I agree with the previous review about the processed foods — it was not of the high standard it used to be. But having been happy with the service thought we ought to point out the poor quality of the steak. As I was on a working lunch I had to answer a phone call as the manager attended to our table and took the full plates away, he didn’t seem bothered about our comments about the food but came back to offer coffees. I stopped the conversation as so I could answer his offer and asked if my friend could have a coffee on the house to make up for the lack of food she had eaten to which he told me I was being rude! He told me off for being on a phone call and when I asked about the complaints procedure to Greene King he laughed at me and said they would never believe me! He then coaxed the young bar staff to laugh at me and single me out in the establishment. Obviously, very disappointed I left. I would not recommend visiting this pub unless you are a well known local! I have visited many Greene King pubs and found them reasonable with good service so please try another before this one!

I used to go to the Boundary House a lot, because it was the pub of choice for company leaving dos! It has been through a lot of changes over the last few years. The bar area is fine, nothing special, with a certain amount of seating and a good choice of drinks.
The restaurant is much larger, with plenty of seating and an open fire place. The menu is varied, with pub favourites, and there’s table service so you don’t have to order at the bar. I think they do special meals — a curry night and a carvery for Sunday lunch — but I haven’t been to any.
I have stopped going now, because the last few meals I had were mediocre — they tasted as though they had been put together from bought in processed foods rather than cooked on site, and the service wasn’t up to much either. There are nicer places to go for a pub meal in Abingdon.

I live very near the Boundary House pub, and have seen it change hands a few times and go through different phases.
When I was 17 – 18 and going out on a Friday and Saturday night we very rarely went in the boundary house, even though it is right next to the bus-​stops into Oxford and Abingdon. This was mainly because the drinks were very expensive compared to the pubs in Oxford.
Now Im older the prices dont seem so bad, but maybe that is because I have more money!
There isnt much seating inside for just having drinks, most of the pub seems to be dedicated to the food side of the business, and to be honest the food there hasnt been that great for a while.
But the huge garden seating area is nice in the summer, with lots of room for everybody. It is a bit odd that you are sitting next to a main road, but after a while you dont notice it!
There is a large car-​park, with extra parking on the grass if the car-​park gets full.
Basically, just an average pub, not anything special about it but it’s not awful!