Eat and drink · Woodstock
The Missing Bean, Woodstock
A coffee shop on Oxford Street, Woodstock, run by the Missing Bean, the Oxford coffee roaster, with pastries and cakes from its own bakery, open from 8am on weekdays.
The place for a proper coffee before Blenheim opens. It is a café rather than a restaurant: pastries, cakes and sandwiches, and it closes at 4pm.
- Good: Opens 8am on weekdays, 9am at weekends
- Good: Bread and pastries from its own bakery in East Oxford
- Good: Coffee beans ground to order to take home
- Good: Dogs welcome, as in all the company's cafés
- Worth knowing: Closes at 4pm every day
- Worth knowing: Counter food only: no hot meals listed
About
The Missing Bean is an Oxford coffee roaster, started on Turl Street in 2009, with cafés in Oxford, at Abingdon, Maidenhead and Charlbury, and here, on Oxford Street in Woodstock, the main road into the town from the south. It has roasted its own beans since 2014 and buys some of its coffees direct from named farms, and the café serves a seasonal house espresso alongside single-origin filter coffees.
The food is counter food: bread, pastries, cakes and sandwiches made at the company's own bakery in East Oxford, with lunchtime options. There is no kitchen menu of hot meals on its website, so think of it for breakfast, a light lunch or an afternoon cake rather than a sit-down meal. The shelves sell the roaster's beans, which the staff will grind to order, along with brewing kit and its own merchandise. The company says all its cafés are dog friendly, and this one can be hired outside opening hours for small gatherings of up to 10 people.
It opens from 8am to 4pm on weekdays and from 9am to 4pm at weekends, which makes it the early stop before Blenheim Palace, whose park opens at 9am and palace at 10am. The Oxfordshire Museum, free and with a garden, is a few minutes' walk away on Park Street.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 to 16:00 |
| Sunday | 09:00 to 16:00 |
The details
- Food
- Café food · Bakery
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch
- Booking a table
- Walk-ins only
- Features
- Café · Shop
- Parking
- Town-centre parking in Woodstock; check the signs for charges and time limits, the café says.
- Without a car
- Buses from Oxford stop in Woodstock, a short walk away. Hanborough station is about 3 miles (5km) off.
Photos
The bakery window 
Coffee and pastries 
Coffee to take home 
Coffee and a pastry to take away
Location
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