Patrons Pizza — Restaurant in South Oxfordshire

SHORT ANSWER: Tasty Food, Friendly Deliverers, Inhumane Prices. I weep.

EDIT: To be fair, their Pizza is actually pretty good and not as high Priced compared to other Pizza places, but only if you like Bready Bases, it's not traditionally aerated Pizza Dough!

The food is tasty enough, though many of the sides are overly greasy (Potato Skins with Bacon is a great lower-grease choice when they serve it as 4 baked potato halves, and don't just give you wedges with cheese instead). However, the price was already too high when I first started going here and it is only getting more expensive, far faster than any other local takeaway I use.

I was happy to make expensive orders when they had 2 for 1 burgers, but 8 pounds for an untoasted, plain bun Burger with less than a teaspoon of sauce? I could get 2-4 similarly massive Cheeseburgers for that at other venues, toasted with seeded buns, loaded with salad and sauce - and maybe even with small fries and a drink.

They do a Kebab wrap which is great with their Coleslaw, but additions like Coleslaw are expensive, and exist on top of expensive base prices. 1 Kebab that I would consider close to filling will cost me 11-15 pounds, which is a new book, or 2 or 3 months of streaming service, or 3 or 4 days of infinite bus travel in and around London, etc, etc.

Their Hot Dogs are also tasty and come as a decent deal, but as their fries are usually overcooked and you cant substitute any other side, I almost never get them.

A great Takeaway made annoying and sometimes awful by: lack of order versatility; occasionally sending things you didn't order- presumably to save time or money, ignoring all customer contact (phone-line has been ringing out for years and they turn off website functions as they please, with no warning or schedule, you just have to eat what arrives and go to hell otherwise), suddenly shutting off their online orders when you are in the middle of paying; and confusingly unpredictable, sometimes even seemingly arbitrary markups.

Just a personal, philosophical note: Junk food is a staple for Junk People, and Junk People don't usually have 30k a year to spend on food... I would order from here so regularly if it were more affordable, or the nuanced efforts matched the high price. Sometimes it pays to know...

Pizza box kebab or kiddies meal?! 🤨

So yesterday afternoon, I ordered a kebab...large - £9.50 + 50p for chilli sauce + 50p for Mayo sauce (who would sell a kebab without sauce, god knows.) Having gone to collect it, it arrived in what looked like a small pizza box. Once I opened it, it was thick as two Frankfurt sausages put side by side with a load of veg! And having to spend £10.50 on a kebab, it was not worth it as my 4 year old daughter would demolish that in minutes. I was expecting meat upon meat upon meat. Kebab wasn’t bad but it was size of a kiddies meal which would be worth about £4.50. If you fancy a kebab in Thame, on a Sunday, I would highly recommend waiting till the kebab van (voted UK kebab of the year) opposite hsbc is open during the week, cooking at home or going to the fish and chips shop. You can get a decent size fish and chips PLUS sauces for free, all for...

They have recently rebranded their takeaway to 'Patron's Pizza' from 'Pizza Parlour' for anyone wondering. I question the logic behind this seeing as their only customers are locals changing a tarnished brand would have little effect to people's awareness of their previously poor products compared to the likes of Atalay's kebabs and even store bought pizzas. But I did take all of that aside and visited them again and must say improvements have been made, both physical and mental attitude. The staff attempt to be friendlier and they have provided a larger and better portion of fries for purchase. Although their burgers tasted the same I still think this place is heading in the...