Two established hospitality businesses have achieved great scores for hygiene, the Food Standards Agency’s website shows.

The Market Tap at 60 - 62 Covered Market was handed a four-out-of-five rating after assessment on July 17.

The venue was opened by Oxford-based craft brewery Tap Social in May.

Tap Social offers employment and training to people who are serving prison sentences or have recently been released.

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It is one of several traders to benefit from the historic market’s new extended evening hours on Thursday to Saturday until 11pm.

And The Magic Cafe, a vegetarian cafe at 110 Magdalen Road, Oxford, was also given a score of four on July 14.

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The cafe owned by Jahan Rahman and Deki Dakar was reopened by Oxford’s Green Lord Mayor Craig Simmons following the Covid lockdown in September 2020.

Mr Simmons described the cafe as "a long-standing independent business that has been feeding East Oxford’s mind, body and soul with vegetarian food for decades".