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The thing about a day at Bicester Village is that it takes longer than you plan. What begins as a focused couple of hours has a habit of drifting into the mid-afternoon, and by the time you’ve done what you came for, the idea of a two-hour drive home on an empty stomach has lost most of its appeal.
We opened The Double Red Duke at Bicester Village in November 2025, and dinner is a large part of the reason to stay. The same open-fire kitchen that made the original Double Red Duke in Clanfield one of the more talked-about restaurants in Oxfordshire — described by Harper’s Bazaar as a serious culinary destination — is the kitchen that runs here. Here’s what the evening looks like.
The dinner menu runs from bar snacks through to full mains, which gives it some flexibility depending on how much you want to commit to after a day of walking around.
Bar snacks are a reasonable choice if you want something substantial without a full sit-down: the Westcombe cheddar toastie with pickled walnut, chipolatas with mustard, a proper sausage roll. For something more, starters include beef tartare with beef-dripping toast and wood-fired scallops with chervil and tarragon butter.
Mains are the open-fire kitchen at its most direct: flat iron steak, veal chop, rotisserie half chicken with burnt lemon and garlic mayonnaise, fish and chips with peas and tartare sauce. The kind of cooking that makes the drive to Bicester feel secondary to the meal.
Puddings are the kind you order when you’ve told yourself you won’t: sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream, apple and blackberry crumble with Neal’s Yard double cream.
If dinner isn’t the plan but something after shopping is, the bar is a self-contained proposition. A concise cocktail list — the Duke Dirty Martini, a Gimlet, Whiskey Ginger — alongside Allsopp’s Best Bitter, Double Diamond and English fine ciders. The wine list is short and considered. It’s the kind of bar you can sit at for an hour without feeling like you need to be doing something else.
Booking is always a good idea but we always take walk ins too. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays are when the village is busiest and we’d recommend rather than arriving and hoping, it takes two minutes and avoids the situation of having to negotiate a table after a long day.
Bar seats are always available on a walk-in basis and that works well if you want a drink and a snack rather than a full table booking. Come to the bar, order, see how the evening develops.
Bicester Village has its own railway station, with direct trains from London Marylebone, which takes around 46 minutes. The village is well-signposted from the M40 and parking is available, which makes arriving by car for an evening meal straightforward.
The Double Red Duke is just inside the village. If you’re arriving specifically for dinner rather than after a day of shopping, the entrance is the same and we’re just inside the main gates.
If the evening warrants it, our original Double Red Duke in Clanfield is about 35 minutes by car and has 19 bedrooms and the same kitchen ethos. There’s also a shepherd’s hut spa for the morning after. Not a plan for everyone, but if a day at Bicester Village is the kind of trip that benefits from an overnight somewhere good, it’s there.
Bicester Village has a handful of other restaurants; Cecconi’s, La Tua Pasta, and Farmshop among them. All are reasonable for what they are. What the Double Red Duke offers that they don’t is a specific cooking approach: flame, British produce, and a menu that was built around a kitchen philosophy rather than around what fills a restaurant in an outlet village. We’re not for everyone, but we are the right choice if the day deserves a proper ending.
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