The Big Bang Caters Jazz on the Ark!

The Big Bang is the sole caterer for the highlight event of the upcoming Oxford Ciao! Festival - Jazz on the Ark! On Friday 25 June, there will be a huge jazz concert on the front lawn of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, taking place on the Ark which will have been built earlier in the week. A night of the UK’s finest jazz on the Ark is brought to you in partnership with the Oxford Jazz Festival. The evening line up starts with the Dunajska Kapelye Balkan Gypsy Jazz Band playing their rhythmically stomping sounds. The young JazzFactor winners Quaking Ducks will perform an interval set, before headliners Juliet Kelly Quintet featuring virtuoso saxophonist Tommaso Starace perform their toe-tapping grooves. Venue: The front lawn of Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Ticket info: £25.50 (includes Big Bang BBQ and salad bar), £22.50 (concession & BBQ), £18.50 (concert only), £15 (concession).

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Oxide radio spot

Oxide Radio (Oxford Student Ratio - www.oxideradio.co.uk) has created a fantastic spot for The Big Bang, which will run on air in the lead-up to Christmas. Listen to it here (mp3, 549kb):

The Big Bang to participate in Christmas Light Night

COME AND CELEBRATE THE START OF THE FESTIVE SEASON at this special, late night opening of all your cultural favourites and Christmas lights switch-on. Join together with artists and children to enjoy the real spirit of Christmas, with lanterns, music, fire and dancing in the streets and art and music in everyone’s favourite museums, galleries and theatres. The Big Bang will be offering up some hearty fare from Broad Street - come down and say hello!

The Big Bang is the official caterer for the Oxford Christmas Market

Oxford's first ever German style Christmas Market will be at the Castle from 10-20 December 2009. The Big Bang is the official caterer for the event, so come down to the market and sample some sausages, pick up some restaurant vouchers, and warm yourself with some mulled wine while you shop.

May Day Morning at the Big Bang

Join us from 6am on May Day Morning (Friday 01 May) and get a free shot of bloody mary with every breakfast!

Anti-Valentine's Day

Thanks to everyone who entered our Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Competition. Read the winning entry and some selected poems.

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The Big Bang meets WinterLights

It may sound a recipe for an astronomic disaster but this is a far from a calamity. This is definitely a win, win situation. Local entrepreneur Max Mason is supporting Oxford Inspires for the second time. His sponsorship of the 2007 Luminox brought his sausage restaurant, Big Bang, the exposure he wanted whilst supporting the people it serves.

Max Mason, proprietor of the Big Bang, a much praised and popular sausage restaurant based in Walton Street, sees his sponsorship of this year's WinterLights once again as a way of supporting his local area and its people.

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First Great Western

We have teamed up with First Great Western to offer fantastic 2for1 savings when you travel by train.  All you need to do is visit www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/2for1offers to download a voucher, and present it on arrival with two valid train tickets.  It’s as easy as that.

More Bang for your Buck for the Bigger Tables

The economy is in dreadful shape, so we have 2 offers:  Drop in for our "Credit Crunch Lunch" - Only £5.50 for a full plate of bangers and mash as long as the economy remains so gloomy. 

And, as if that wasn't bargain enough, during the month of October, every booking for a table of more than ten people who mention "More Bang for your Buck" will get an additional free sausage added to every diner's plate.

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And on the Seventh Day, he created Sausage

God created the original Big Bang, Max Mason created the second one. Now, to celebrate the CERN Big Bang experiments on 10th September, the Big Bang on Walton Street has created a Swiss-Franco inspired sausage ring served over a simple creamed mash with a rich red wine gravy accompanied by garden peas and braised red cabbage. It will be followed with a Black Hole chocolate dessert doused in custard.

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May Morning

May Day is upon us again and we have teamed up with the superb new radio station Jack FM (who are now broadcasting spectacular tunes across Oxfordshire) to offer a May Day breakfast. Come try our "Breakfast Banger" - an amazing invention of a sausage containing bacon, hard-boiled egg, mushroom, tomato and even the humble baked bean.  If you would like to book a May Day breakfast of Bangers and a Bloody Mary, we shall be open from 6am but will have limited space. Ring Lucy on 01865 511441 or click here to book your spot.

Awards Evening at the House of Lords

We were recently awarded the Best Rural Retailer for 2007 for the South of England in the Best Local Food category. Max and Lucy of The Big Bang attended the Countryside Alliance awards evening at the House of Lords.

Pictured on left is Dr Evan Harris (the Member Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon), Max Mason (owner of The Big Bang Restaurants), Lucy Wendon (manager of The Big Bang Oxford), and Simon Hart (Chief Executive of Countryside Alliance). We are extremely pleased and flattered to be recognized for this award.

To see the official website of the Best Rural Retailer awards, including the other winners, click here.

Winner: Anti-Valentine's Day Poem Competition

We received a lot of really creative entries this year and it was tough to choose, but we did choose a winner in the end. Congratulations to A. Pirate for the winning entry below:

Send me no cards; please spare me from cupid,
For it’s well known that winged-babies are stupid.

Don’t speak to me in your sickly-sweet rhymes,
Or I’ll pack you off to a college for mimes.

Bring me no roses, white, pink or red.
For if one thorn pricks me, you’ll wish you were dead.

Don’t leave me chocolates, shell-shaped or not,
I’m allergic to sugar; I’ll break out in spots.

Take me for no loving walks by the Isis,
I’d much rather work through a dire essay-crisis.

Buy me no drinks, no gin and no tonic,
I’ll just pity you for the gesture moronic.

If, on this Thursday, you make my teeth gnash,
It best be because of my sausage and mash.

~ A. Pirate

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Last year's winner:

Do they have a day each year,
Where they serve tee-total people beer?
Each year, do they take the chance,
To humiliate the injured by having a dance?
Once in every solar path,
Do they point at the unfunny and laugh?
When twelve months have passed them unawares,
Do they give free money to millionaires?
When a whole year has gone by again,
Do they hand out umbrellas when there is no rain?

No.

But, once a year they group and mingle,
In a concerted effort to humiliate the single.
They buy each other chocolates and flowers,
And stare at each other for hours. And hours.
The worst thing, when push comes to shove,
Is that they get rewarded for being in love!
As if love wasn’t reward enough –
Being single on Valentines’ day is tough!

So to help me circumvent my Valentine’s rage,
Give me and five others some mash and sausage.

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Start sharpening your quills for next year's competition!

Anti-Valentine's Day Poem Competition

For the second year in a row, The Big Bang is running our popular Anti-Valentine's Day poem competition. The winning entries from Oxford and Bristol will receive dinner for 6 on or around Valentine's Day. To enter, or for more details, click here.

Winner - Best Local Food!

We are very pleased to announce that The Big Bang Oxford has been awarded the Best Rural Retailer for 2007 for the South of England in the Best Local Food category!

Sara Rutherford, Regional Director for the South and leader of the local judging panel says: “This wonderful restaurant offers nothing but sausages from the local area, ensuring that food miles are reduced to a minimum, and that each time a customer dines there, they are supporting local suppliers. Their food is sourced from within a 20 mile radius and their message is focussed on buying local - their tag line is 'smile you're buying local'. They really support local farming and production, and their carbon footprint is tiny.”

Thank you to everyone who voted for us!

To see the official website, including the other winners, click here.

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