Guest Nights and Formal Hall
Guest Nights and Formal Halls are served meals, open to all members of College and Common Room. Both events are booked using the Wolfson Gateway.
Guest Nights
Guest Night dinners are elaborate, dignified, served formal dinners. There are four courses, with wines carefully selected to complement the menu. They provide a convivial atmosphere for academic entertaining, and the chance to meet other Wolfsonians. Dress code is smart, academic gowns are not worn, and ties are optional.
Guest Night dinners usually take place every Thursday during weeks 1-8 of term. Pre-dinner drinks are normally at 19.00, followed by dinner at 19.30.
Booking
Booking for guest nights opens shortly before 0th week of each term, and should be made via the Wolfson College Gateway.
The cut-off time for bookings, changes, cancellations and seating requests is 09.00 on the Monday before each guest night. All dinners that are booked when the list closes will be charged for.
Pricing
| Student Members – own meals (50% subsidy) | £22.16 |
| All GS/RF/JRFs get two Discounted Guests per term. | £30.71 each guest |
| All other members, and all other guests | £51.18 |
Please Note:
- Dietary requirements must be noted on the online booking form. Diners will be provided with a place card to assist delivery of any special meals. Please display the card during dinner. Retain the card during the ‘remove’ after dessert, and display it again for the cheese course.
- Drinks are included in the price of dinner. This includes both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
- Please refrain from using phones at Guest Night dinners.
- Seating requests should be made via the ‘additional information’ field on the booking form.
- Children aged 11 years and over are welcome to attend Guest Night. Younger children are welcome at Family Formals.
- Student diners are charged immediately via their top-up account. Other diners will be charged via their monthly Battels.
- Student tickets and subsidies are non-transferrable. If a ticket is used by a person who is not the booked student member, they will be asked to leave and/or pay the full price.
- All guest bookings must be made under the name of their host. Guests booked under another member’s name to obtain a discount will be asked to leave and/or pay the full price.
- As a matter of courtesy to our staff and other members of the Wolfson community, we ask that you please refrain from ‘block booking’ and then cancelling.
Please email catering.administration@wolfson.ox.ac.uk with any further questions.
Formal Hall
Formal Hall is a served three-course meal that takes place two or three times each term. Dress code is smart, though black tie is not required, and academic gowns are not worn. Drinks are at 19.00, with dinner at 19.30. Formal Halls are open to all members of College, and members may invite up to three guests to attend with them.
Booking
All bookings for Formal Hall should be made via the Wolfson College Gateway. The booking list opens 14 days before each dinner.
Bookings, changes and cancellations cannot be made after 09.00 on the day that the booking list closes. For Friday dinners this is normally 09.00 on Tuesday. List closing dates are shown on the dinner details in the Gateway. Please note that each cancellation made 7 days or fewer before the list closes will incur a cancellation fee of £5.
All dinners that are still booked when the booking list closes will be charged for at the full rate.
Pricing
| Student Members – own meals (50% College subsidy) | £15.57 |
| Guests of Student members | £26.17 |
| Children aged 3-10 ** (Children aged under three years may attend but no meal is served.) | £12.98 |
| All other members, and all other guests | £37.38 |
Please note:
- Dietary requirements must be noted on the online booking form. Diners will be provided with a place card specifying their dietary requirements, which should be retained between courses and during the ‘remove’ after dessert. Diners should place the card in front of them when they return for cheese.
- Wine is not included in the price of Formal Hall, and it is not permitted to bring your own. Wine may be purchased from the Kitchen by the bottle.
- There is no seating plan. Seating is as diners choose among the places available.
- Student diners are charged immediately via their top-up account. Other diners will be charged via their monthly Battels.
- Student tickets are non-transferrable. If a ticket is used by a person who is not the named student, they will be asked to leave and/or pay the full price.
- All guest bookings must be made under the name of their host, any guests brought on behalf of another person to obtain the lower price will be asked to leave and/or pay the full price.
- As a matter of courtesy to our staff and other members of the Wolfson community, we ask that you please refrain from ‘block booking’ and then cancelling.
- There is no informal supper on the night of a Formal Hall.
Please email catering.administration@wolfson.ox.ac.uk with any further questions.
