From early mornings ...
Café Oasis is open from 8am every day including Sunday. The daytime menu includes various breakfast options, home made burgers, curries, chilli, baguettes with all sorts of fillings, scallops, mussels and home made cakes and puddings.

Ingredients are fresh and the many dishes are created in house. During the day customers are required to at least start the meal off by ordering at the counter and then with an open tab they can order puddings, more wine and coffee as they go.

The service is surprisingly quick considering everything is freshly made and cooked daily. It can be a crush some lunchtimes but even so the elegant staff cope very well. The coffee is offered in varying cup sizes and is absolutely outstanding.

If it's an early breakfast with the papers there is a newsagent opposite if you have been unable to borrow one from Paul. There can be few more satisfying experiences than a quiet hour in the sun with a coffee and a paper, perhaps watching the boss floating on the mirror like sea making phone calls in the staff kayak.

... to late evenings!
Having first started offering evening meals in 1999 when Barbarra Perry was head chef, the formula since then has evolved but has always maintained a philosophy of reasonably priced fine dining.

Together with this more cosmipolitan and contemporary dining style, there is also now a different style and pace to the evening service.

With our new head chef Ben's arrival, a more innovative variety of food can now be offered. With this the management team at Oasis have decided on a new approach; the contrast between the daytime menu and the evening menu is now much less pronounced. Many of the new daytime special dishes are now also being made available in the evening. Evening opening hours will also be extended, with first orders taken earlier and last orders later.

For the customer this has two particular advtanages; first, there is a wider selection of dishes available, which now changes every week. Second, as can be seen from the accompanying sample menu, the cost of a high class evening out can be very reasonable indeed (although there are more expensive signature dishes still available). The ambience is now also intended to be more relaxed.