The Railway Inn Botley

This week in reviews 📸

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Making this one official! 📝

Our 2 for £20 pizza launch deal is here to stay. Mondays - Fridays, lunch and evening, you can get 2 of these beauties for £20, until the end of summer (at least). And that goes for takeaways too, just give us a call 💁‍♀️

We’re also adding a couple more to the menu from tomorrow. Full lineup:

🥗 Chicken Caesar - Mozzarella, parmesan & garlic base, pulled chicken, cesaer sauce, loaded with baby gem, local tomato & crispy onions

🍄‍🟫 Wild Mushroom & Goats Cheese - Garlic roasted wild mushrooms, goat’s cheese, caramelised onion, truffle oil, DOP sauce, mozzarella

🐑 Harissa Lamb- Goats cheese, tomato, pomegranate seeds, mint yogurt drizzle, DOP sauce, mozzarella

🧀 Margherita - Fresh basil, extra virgin olive oil, DOP sauce, mozzarella

🍖 The Railway Meat Feast - Pepperoni, chorizo, nduja, jalapenos, DOP sauce, mozzarella

🥵 Chorizo & Hot Honey - Spanish chorizo, roasted red peppers, chilli-infused honey, DOP sauce, mozzarella

🍕 Pepperoni - Crisped pepperoni, oregano, DOP sauce, mozzarella

All served with San Marzano Tomato Sauce, Fior di Latte Mozzarella & Garlic and herb dip 🇮🇹

We’ve got the facilities for takeaway, so if you want to eat one in and take the other home thats fine by us. We’re still ironing out the details on pizzas but they look and taste magnifico, and they’ll only be getting better with practise 💪

Deliveries might be in the pipeline too 🤐

Who you bringing?

A note on upcoming road closures 🛑

As you may know, a section of the A334 will be closed next weekend because some genius built the new road into the Botley bypass a metre too high. The current mini roundabout (outside pinkmead car wash) will have to be raised (I guess?) which means getting from Botley to Curdridge will require a trip around the world. Shortcuts are also being closed to stop the back roads getting jammed.

Pedestrian and cycle access is still available, and we’ve been told access is still fine from the East (Wickham or Bishops Waltham way). The info from the website states:

Friday 22 May – Monday 25 May

From 9pm on Friday 22 May, both the A3051 (YMCA Fairthorne to A334) and the A334 (Sherecroft Way to Hilson Road) will be closed to traffic.
The A334 will reopen at 6am on Monday 25 May to all traffic via a temporary new road layout.
A signed diversion will be in place throughout the closure.

Monday 25 May – Monday 1 June

A section of the A3051 (YMCA Fairthorne to A334) will remain closed and will reopen at 6am on Monday 1 June.

A signed diversion route will be in place, this will differ from the first diversion to utilise the A334.

So yeah, total nightmare. We’re preparing for a quiet weekend as this essentially isolates us from half of the world, but we’re still open in case you find yourself on the east side!

And while we’re talking closures, we’ll be closed Monday- Wednesday next week to accommodate Wickham Horse Fair. We have some maintenance and refurb bits we’ll be completing in the time, so we’ll see you all when things start opening up again 😘