It's all go for Oxfordshire’s eateries this week with countless places opening and closing and others winning AA awards and Michelin stars, leaving me panting hard to keep up.

* Congratulations then to the Sir Charles Napier, The Nut Tree and Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons for holding onto their Michelin stars.

Felicitations also go to the Kingham Plough and Sudbury House for their three AA rosettes and Le Manoir again, on its AA hospitality award.

* News has also reached us that The Bull in Charlbury has been bought as an investment and is being properly financed to turn it into a family-run pub, with a massive refurbishment project, new chefs, rooms and a kid friendly onus on the cards. We can’t wait. It’s been a long time coming.

* Secondly my two favourite people, head chef Phil Currie, one of The Guide’s recipe gurus, and maitre d’ extraordinaire Lidia Dhorne have left the Killingworth Castle to take on a new project in Warwickshire. Lydia was the best front of house this side of the channel and will no doubt be sorely missed by all her customers. Killingworth Castle is however replacing them with an admirably able team. We wish them all the best.

* The Fishers in St Clements has closed for a refurbishment and is due to reopen in the autumn.

* The Randolph’s new concept restaurant Acanthus will not be re-opening this week after all. The Oxford’s hotel’s original restaurant will be reopening after the fire instead, but Acanthus has now been postponed until January, according to general manager Michael Grange, when all will be revealed.

* The new Oxford Wine Cafe in Jericho is opening tonight. The second wine cafe is on the corner of Little Clarendon Street and Walton Street and will be run along the same lines as the existing cafe in Summertown. The two venues will work closely together to offer not only top class coffee and light food but also an excellent choice of more than 150 wines, 22 of which are offered by the glass. The Cafe will be managed by George Sandbach, son of MD Ted Sandbach, who has extensive bar experience. George has assembled a crack team of staff that will be headed up by Wine Manager Ronald Exenberger, who joins them from Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons. Ted Sandbach said: “The opening of a second branch of The Oxford Wine Cafe is a logical step following the success of the first wine cafe in Summertown.