Kitchen Food Company

Kitchen Food Company occupies 215 Banbury Road in Summertown, the same address that, until January 2022, was home to The Oxford Kitchen, chef Paul Welburn’s Michelin-starred restaurant (rebranded briefly as 215 Kitchen & Drinks before closing). This is a different business under new ownership, not a continuation: a chef-led delicatessen and daytime bistro, built around a grocery counter, cheese and charcuterie, and a changing seasonal menu, rather than a tasting-menu fine-dining format.

The format is deliberately more casual and daytime-oriented than its predecessor: a deli counter stocked with a large range of curated grocery products alongside a bistro serving lunch through the day, plus event catering and grazing-board platters for anyone planning something at home rather than dining in. Outdoor terrace seating is available for anyone who’d rather eat outside than inside the deli itself.

Anyone who remembers this address as an occasion-worthy tasting-menu restaurant should reset that expectation: this is a neighbourhood deli and daytime bistro, not a special-occasion dinner destination, and it should be judged and chosen on those terms rather than compared directly against Summertown’s other, more formal dining options.

Given the business is relatively recently established under its current name and ownership, several practical details (exact menu pricing, dietary accommodation on bistro dishes specifically, and its pet policy) are worth confirming directly before a visit, rather than assumed from what’s published on general marketing pages.

The business is run by Sam Wilson and Steve Quinn, and the deli side of the operation carries genuine range: over 1,500 curated grocery products, including organic options, alongside a dedicated cheese counter and a meat chiller stocked with daily homemade dishes. That grocery depth is what most separates Kitchen Food Company from a standard café-bistro: it functions as a proper neighbourhood deli that happens to also serve food to eat in, rather than a restaurant with a small retail counter bolted on.

Hours run Wednesday and Thursday from 8am to 5pm, Friday and Saturday from 8am to 6pm, and Sunday from 9am to 4:30pm, with Monday and Tuesday closed entirely: a five-day week built around daytime trade rather than evening dining. Confirmed seasonal closures do happen (the business shut for part of early-to-mid August 2026, for instance), so treating the published weekly hours as a baseline rather than an absolute guarantee is the safer approach for anyone planning a specific visit.

For anyone weighing it against Pompette or OXTWO further along Banbury Road, Kitchen Food Company fills a different role entirely: it’s the daytime, grab-a-grazing-board-or-a-bistro-lunch option in Summertown, not a dinner destination to book ahead for, and the two shouldn’t be treated as substitutes for each other.