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Heat African Restaurant

+44 1865 247802
189 Cowley Rd, Oxford OX4 1UT United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Open Today: 01:00 PM - 12:30 AM

Amenities

Service options
  • Outdoor seating
  • Delivery
  • Takeaway
  • Dine-in
Highlights
  • Great cocktails
  • Live music
  • Sport
Accessibility
  • Wheelchair-accessible entrance
Offerings
  • Alcohol
  • Beer
  • Braille menu
  • Cocktails
  • Coffee
  • Free water refills
  • Halal food
  • Happy-hour drinks
  • Happy-hour food
  • Healthy options
  • Late-night food
  • Organic dishes
  • Salad bar
  • Small plates
  • Spirits
  • Vegetarian options
  • Wine
Dining options
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Catering
  • Seating
Amenities
  • Bar on site
  • Toilets
Atmosphere
  • Casual
Crowd
  • Family friendly
  • Groups
  • LGBTQ+ friendly
  • Transgender safe space
Planning
  • Reservations required
  • Accepts reservations
Payments
  • Credit cards
  • Debit cards
  • NFC mobile payments
Children
  • Good for kids
  • High chairs
  • Kids' menu
Other
  • LGBTQ+ friendly

Best KPortal Reviews

Just been refurbished - looks far brighter inside than the outside signage suggests.
Had Puff Puff and beans, which was really good (basically sliced banana + Kidney beans).
Also a Magnum drink - somewhere between an energy drink and vodka & coke.
Barman and waiter were friendly and was a great atmosphere. Some photos attached... to share their Good vibes. ????
I just ordered food from this restaurant on deliveroo, I paid £35.59 for everything you’re seeing here. I’ve never been to a Nigerian restaurant, that you had to order rice and meat separate. The jollof rice alone , cost £7.80, that cost would’ve given me a huge hunk of meat or chicken from all the other restaurants I’ve been to, that includes restaurants in Bournemouth, Luton even London. To the point I thought it was standard practice….until today. You might be wondering “you saw jollof rice on the page, why would you assume it would come with meat?”, and for this I’ll say refer back to my previous statement.
Now, take a moment the guess the price of the soup you’re seeing…..whatever you guessed you’re wrong.
The soup alone cost—£21.10
the pounded yam—£5.20
And it wasn’t even freshly pounded yam, it’s the stuff you can buy from supermarkets. It was my Nigerian friend that ordered this for us to eat for lunch, in the hopes it would last a long time at her house(the soup I mean). Nope, this is what she got.
It really makes you wonder, what exactly is giving this food such an exorbitant price?.
i added the price here so you guys can be the judge of it, does this make sense to you?
Returned to a newly revamped Heat restaurant.
It is more relaxed and serves up a nice selection on the food menu.
I've tried the wings, rice, fries and puff puffs.
All of the food was to a high standard and tasted great.
Nice light afro tunes in the background.
If you're looking for a chilled evening with a few drinks and some food, this is the spot to try.
New and improved!!
Came to heat for relaunch and was pleasantly surprised by the makeover, the owner has done a great job with the decor and overall feel.
We had a few sample plates and they were all served promptly and delicious.
This is the second time coming to heat restaurant. First time I was more angry than a mad man but this second time. Met load of renovations and upgrade. This is classical, best meal... platter at its best... chef has a 5star. I'm sure he got a ph.D in barbecue. Fantastically spontaneous meal... Great meal ????
I ordered from here yesterday just to receive extremely hard jollof rice, salty plantain and suya that was cold and burnt. I called it in and the lady on the phone gave such an apathetic ‘sorry’ and was trying to get me off the phone. I spent £27 for really bad food and service.
Very bad experience. The lady who served the food was arrogant with no hospitality and food we ordered for my partner in veg option they added cray fish and we said the food smells like a fish smell can you please check she confirmed with chef and simply said its cray fish and we didn’t even touched that bean porridge and the lady didn’t even bothered to apologize and simply took the payment .no hospitality at all never advise anyone to visit.
Excellent meal and excellent service. If you're up for something a bit different then this is the place for you. Staff were lovely and explained what all the dishes were, making excellent recommendations.
We had spicy chicken gizzards and dried spicy beef to start (pictured) then I had a really nice spicy beef offal stew with smashed yams and Gordon had curry goat with Jollof (spicy rice).
Washed down with Staropramen. Lots of other drinks available.

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Opening Hours

Monday 01:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Tuesday 01:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Wednesday 01:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Thursday 01:00 PM - 12:30 AM
Friday 01:00 PM - 01:30 AM
Saturday 01:00 PM - 01:30 AM
Sunday 01:00 PM - 12:30 AM

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