OXFORDSHIRE restaurants feature heavily in a new guide described as 'the most comprehensive in the UK'.

Some 24 eateries in the city made the cut in the latest edition of Harden's Best UK Restaurants 2018 which was published yesterday.

The yearly guide is based on detailed surveys of regular restaurant-goers with 8,500 participants contributing 50,000 reviews.

Nominations are then curated by editors and used to form the basis of what is included and how it is rated.

The Oxford Kitchen in Banbury Road, Sojo in Hythe Bridge Street, Arbequina in Cowley Road and Oli's Thai in Magdalen Road were the top scorers in Oxford.

But no Oxford venues made the top 100 list of best places to eat in the UK.

The nearest restaurant for hungry punters wanting a taste of the top 100 is the perennial critics' favourite Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons in Great Milton.

On top of that four other Oxfordshire restaurants were included with Orwell's in Shiplake, The Sir Charles Napier in Chinnor, Restaurant 56 in Faringdon and The Feathered Nest Inn, Nether Westcote all taking places in the prestigious list.

Oxford has the UK's ninth largest number of high scoring restaurants, on a par with Cheltenham and Leeds, and the eighth highest number of restaurants listed in the guide as a whole, tied with Liverpool.

Harden's lists over 1,400 eateries at all price levels outside London and a similar number of restaurants inside the capital

It claims to have approximately twice the number of listings as The Good Food Guide.