Quod Restaurant & Bar

What Quod Restaurant & Bar does

Quod Restaurant & Bar is a single all-day dining venue located at 92-94 High Street, Oxford, operating as the food and beverage hub of the adjoining 43-room, 5-star Old Bank Hotel. Founded around 1999 (with the Oxford Collection tracing back to 1987), the business is privately held by Mogford Limited, an independently owned hospitality group led by founder Jeremy Mogford that also operates Old Parsonage Hotel, Gees Restaurant, and Parsonage Grill under The Oxford Collection brand. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, and cocktails, with a Head Chef-led European classics menu featuring seasonal, locally sourced ingredients, and operates a striking onyx bar plus an Italian Garden Terrace. Quod is licensed for civil ceremonies and runs private event and weddings business via the Red Room (up to 30 guests) and the adjoining Gallery at Old Bank Hotel (up to 70 guests), alongside corporate meetings and conferences.

The business model is straightforward hospitality revenue generation from four streams: à la carte and set-menu dining (with weekday set lunch positioned as a value offering), private dining packages from £55 per person and premium packages from £70 per person, canapés from £18.95 per person, and wedding packages from £95 per person. Distribution combines walk-in footfall on Oxford's High Street, captive spend from hotel guests at Old Bank, OpenTable-managed reservations, and a dedicated events team handling direct private-event bookings. The technology stack is standard hospitality infrastructure — Oracle Opera and P3 Hotels for hotel property management, OpenTable for restaurant reservations, SK Chase for gift vouchers, Campaign Monitor for email marketing, and Creventa for pre-ordering — with no proprietary technology, patents, or AI capabilities.

Quod serves a diversified customer base split across Oxford tourists and visitors, university academics and students, business and corporate diners, celebration and event hosts (weddings, anniversaries, birthdays), local Oxford residents, and Old Bank Hotel guests. Marketing relies on the website, Instagram (@quodrestaurant), an email newsletter, and earned media coverage in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and GQ. The restaurant is led by General Manager Gosia Coloszynska (joined 2015, promoted through the ranks) and Head Chef Rohan Kashid (since 2016, also Head of Menu Development across The Oxford Collection), with a front-of-house team of 30+ and a kitchen brigade under Senior Sous Chef George Reaney.

Name

Quod Restaurant & Bar

Legal name

Mogford Limited

Website

https://quod.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quod Restaurant & Bar is an all-day European classics restaurant on Oxford's High Street, operating as the on-site F&B venue of the 43-room Old Bank Hotel within the privately owned Oxford Collection (Mogford Limited). It serves tourists, academics, business diners, private events, and hotel guests across breakfast through dinner service.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant & Bar Services

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Food Services and Drinking Places (722)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Casual Dining Restaurants (THAFACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hotel & Resort Restaurants (THAFACAH), Lounge Bars & Hotel Bars (THAFAEAI)

Keywords

• Restaurant dining
• Private dining events
• Wedding venue
• Bar service
• Hospitality services

Headquarters

HQ city

Oxford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Dining: All-day dining service including breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner. Revenue from food and beverage sales to walk-in guests, hotel guests, and tourists.
2. Private Dining & Events: Private dining packages, weddings, conferences, and celebrations. Revenue from per-person dining packages and event hosting.
3. Wedding Packages: Wedding receptions starting from £95 per person, including catering and venue hire within the restaurant's private spaces.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Quod Restaurant & Bar operates a contemporary British restaurant and bar from a heritage 1920s venue on Oxford's High Street, serving individual diners from the main floor. The business also offers private dining rooms and event hosting for weddings, corporate functions, and private celebrations under The Oxford Collection umbrella.

Product overview

Quod Restaurant & Bar is a single all-day dining venue located at the Old Bank Hotel on Oxford's High Street. The offering centers on the main restaurant with its full menu portfolio spanning breakfast, all-day dining, set lunch, afternoon tea, cocktails, wine, Sunday lunch, children's menu, and desserts/puddings. The venue includes private dining capabilities through the Red Room (up to 30 guests) and the Gallery at Old Bank (up to 70 guests), plus an outdoor Italian Garden terrace. Additional services include weddings (licensed for civil ceremonies), meetings and conferences, and gift vouchers. The restaurant is part of The Oxford Collection, which also operates Old Bank Hotel (43 rooms), Old Parsonage Hotel (35 rooms), Gees Restaurant & Bar, and Parsonage Grill.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Restaurant Dining Contemporary British à la carte and bar menu served to individual diners and walk-in guests in the main restaurant and bar at 92-94 High Street, Oxford. Open to the public for lunch and dinner service.
• Private Dining Private dining rooms within Quod Restaurant & Bar available for booking by groups for celebrations, business lunches, and smaller private events, with a tailored menu and dedicated service.
• Wedding Venue Hire Wedding receptions and ceremonies hosted at the Quod venue, leveraging the heritage 1920s setting, dining, and bar service for wedding parties and their guests in central Oxford.
• Corporate & Private Events Full or partial venue hire for corporate functions, private parties, and celebrations, including bespoke catering, bar service, and event coordination at the Oxford High Street location.

Quantifiable outcome

• Oxford's busiest city centre restaurant - most popular lunch destination in the city

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• OpenTablecoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenTable manages table reservations for all three Oxford Collection restaurants, storing customer information in relation to bookings. Provides online reservation capabilities for walk-in and advance bookings.
• Opera by OraclecoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides hotel property management system for room reservations at both Old Bank Hotel and Old Parsonage Hotel, including private dining and conference bookings.
• P3 HotelscoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides property management system for room reservations for both Oxford Collection hotels.
• SK ChaseminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorProcesses and supplies gift vouchers for Quod and other Oxford Collection properties.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• The Ivy: Established UK destination casual dining brand with multiple sites. Comparable all-day dining, weekend/celebration focus, and press-driven brand equity, though operating at much larger scale across cities.
• Brasserie Blanc: UK casual French brasserie chain by Raymond Blanc. Comparable full-service casual dining with set-lunch menus, private dining, and hotel-restaurant crossover in multiple UK cities.
• Claridge's Restaurant: Five-star London hotel restaurant offering destination dining, afternoon tea, and private events. Comparable hotel-integrated luxury all-day dining model with press recognition and private function business.

Direct peers

• The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels: Iconic Oxford hotel with F&B outlets serving tourists, academics and corporate guests in central Oxford. Competes directly with Quod for Oxford's hospitality guests and event business in the same geography.
• Gees Restaurant & Bar: Sister property under The Oxford Collection (Mogford Limited), offering Mediterranean-influenced dining in a Victorian conservatory in central Oxford. Directly comparable business model, ownership, and target customer base within the same local market.
• Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons: Belmond-owned destination restaurant with hotel in Oxfordshire offering tasting menus, private dining, weddings, and cookery school. Comparable UK destination dining with events focus, though at ultra-luxury price point and rural setting.
• Head of the River Restaurant: Long-established Oxford full-service restaurant near Folly Bridge. Comparable casual-to-mid-market dining model targeting tourists, locals, and pre-theatre diners in central Oxford.
• Parsonage Grill: Third restaurant in The Oxford Collection, located at Old Parsonage Hotel, serving modern British comfort food. Shares ownership, management, and operational systems with Quod, competing for overlapping Oxford diner segments.
• The Wolseley: Grand European all-day restaurant in London operated by Corbin & King. Comparable format combining breakfast-to-dinner service, iconic location, private dining, and press recognition at a similar price point.

Emerging players

• Soho House & Co. Private members' hospitality group with hotels, restaurants, and event spaces across UK cities. Comparable integrated restaurant-hotel-event business model targeting similar affluent professional and creative audiences.

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/quodrestaurant
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/quod-restaurant-bar

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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