You’ll find great restaurants in the Cotswolds scattered throughout the rural and hilly area. Some can be found in historic country pubs, where you’ll walk over worn, centuries-old flagstones to your table. Others are smart city affairs, sophisticated and stylish, or more humble family-run restaurants bringing decades of experience that allows the food to take centre stage.
What this eclectic mix of establishments has in common is their commitment to using fresh, local produce, which is often sustainably and seasonably sourced. The results will delight your tastebuds and sate your appetite. Read on to find out where to eat in the Cotswolds and what to try.
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The Potting Shed
An authentic Cotswolds country pub
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The Potting Shed is a gastropub within easy reach of Tetbury, Malmesbury and Cirencester. The place has a rustic charm, with exposed brick, characterful beams and agricultural-themed decor. Outside, there’s plenty of additional seating in a lovely garden with a mature weeping willow tree.
The dishes on the menu elevate classic English pub fare. Start with twice-baked double Gloucester soufflé, with spinach and wholegrain mustard, for instance. Follow with dry-aged ribeye, pan-fried sea bream and pork chops with fennel, which supplement more common pub dishes such as beer-battered fish and chips.
ที่ตั้ง: The Street, Crudwell, Malmesbury SN16 9EW, UK
เปิด: Daily from 11 am to midnight
โทร: +44 (0)1666 577833
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The Wild Rabbit
Modern British cuisine in the heart of Chipping Norton
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The Wild Rabbit occupies an elegant, characterful inn with original fireplaces and exposed Cotswold stone. It was extensively renovated in 2013. The restaurant’s name references Conygree Farm (Conygree is Anglo-Saxon for ‘rabbit enclosure’), while wall art displaying tolls is a nod to the old Tollgate Inn that was here before.
Ingredients are sourced locally where possible, many picked daily from the Wild Rabbit’s market garden at Daylesford Farm. They emerge from the kitchen as exciting fine-dining dishes, such as slow-cooked Daylesford egg, with nasturtium velouté, Morteau sausage and peas, or herb-crusted Daylesford organic lamb saddle with wet garlic, chervil-glazed carrot and aged balsamic.
ที่ตั้ง: Church St, Kingham, Chipping Norton OX7 6YA, UK
เปิด: Wednesday–Saturday from noon to 2 pm and 7 pm to 9 pm, Sunday from noon to 2.30 pm and 7 pm to 9 pm
โทร: +44 (0)1608 658389
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The Old Butchers
A former butcher's shop turned restaurant
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The Old Butchers is an English restaurant located in the charming village of Stow-on-the-Wold. A family business, it was set up in 2005 by a chef and his partner who each take responsibility for the kitchen and front of house respectively.
They promote what they call a ‘nose-to-tail’ ethos, meaning that no part of the animal or plant that’s edible will go to waste. On the menu, you’ll find plenty of seafood alongside the meat. Share a whole grilled Dover sole with Béarnaise sauce and new potatoes, or keep it local with Gloucester Old Spots pork chop, accompanied by black pudding and apple and Calvados sauce.
ที่ตั้ง: 7 Park St, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cheltenham GL54 1AQ, UK
เปิด: Tuesday–Saturday from noon to 2 pm and 6 pm to 9 pm (closed on Sundays)
โทร: +44 (0)1451 831700
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Le Champignon Sauvage
Sophisticated French dining in a stylish setting
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Le Champignon Sauvage is a critically-acclaimed fine-dining restaurant in Cheltenham. The talent of its chef and owner has earned it a Michelin star and 4 AA Rosettes. His wife has also played a crucial role since they opened in 1987 – warm, welcoming and efficient at front of house.
The set menu changes regularly, but you might start with pigeon served with a black pudding and chocolate ganache, cherries and radicchio. Move on to roast Cotswold lamb chump, accompanied by romaine lettuce, peas and sheep's curd. Round off the meal with blueberry cannelloni, wood sorrel cream and yoghurt sorbet.
ที่ตั้ง: 24-28 Suffolk Rd, Cheltenham GL50 2AQ, UK
เปิด: Tuesday–Saturday from 12.30 pm to 1.15 pm and 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm
โทร: +44 (0)1242 573449
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The Rose Tree Restaurant
Riverside dining with pub-style food
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The Rose Tree Restaurant enjoys an enviable location on the bank of the River Windrush in Bourton-on-the-Water, one of the Cotswolds’ prettiest villages. It occupies a Grade II-listed cottage and if you’re lucky enough to be seated in the garden on a summer’s day, it’s hard to imagine a more bucolic setting for a meal.
The menu reads like that of a typical British pub, featuring classics such as slow-cooked pork belly, steak and kidney pie, pan-fried sea bass and lamb shank. Round off your meal in a similar fashion with panna cotta or sticky toffee pudding.
ที่ตั้ง: Riverside, Victoria St, Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham GL54 2BX, UK
เปิด: Daily from 11.30 am to 3 pm and 6 pm to 8.30 pm
โทร: +44 (0)1451 820635
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Toro Lounge
A casual, welcoming eatery in central Cirencester
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Toro Lounge is part of the Lounges chain – its name references Cirencester’s old cattle market. Independently run by 3 friends, the business began in Bristol and spread across the south-west. The restaurants are characterised by their quirky decor, though that’s pared back a little here to some interesting wall art and mismatched furniture colours.
Dog- and kid-friendly, Toro Lounge is a good choice for families looking for variety. The menu is heavily influenced by the USA and you’ll find brisket, buttermilk fried chicken and a good selection of burgers. Ask for a table on the 1st-floor terrace when the weather’s fine.
ที่ตั้ง: 34 Cricklade St, Cirencester GL7 1JH, UK
เปิด: Sunday–Thursday from 9 am to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday from 9 am to midnight
โทร: +44 (0)1285 656551
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Wilder
A fine spot to dine in Stroud
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Wilder is a fine-dining restaurant catering to discerning foodies in Stroud. The 8-course tasting menu changes with the seasons and imaginatively combines the best local, fresh ingredients. Bold flavours, contrasting textures and beautiful presentation ensure that what’s on the plate is a treat for all the senses.
The menu will be a surprise on the night. But you can expect playful and well-executed dishes such as venison served with Jerusalem artichoke, celeriac, blue cheese and prunes, or smoked eel accompanied by crispy chicken skin and beetroot.
ที่ตั้ง: Market St, Nailsworth, Stroud GL6 0BX, UK
เปิด: Wednesday–Saturday from 7 pm to 11.30 pm (closed Sunday–Tuesday)
โทร: +44 (0)1453 835483
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Tierra and Mar
Authentic Spanish cuisine in Cirencester
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Tierra and Mar is a restaurant in Cirencester with a name that means ‘land and sea’ in Spanish. That’s a clue to the kind of tapas it serves. Owned by a husband-and-wife team, it’s heavily influenced by the family’s smallholding in the Cotswold countryside and the wife’s Mediterranean roots.
The dining room interiors are blue-hued and the menu is creative and imaginative. Order a selection of dishes to share, such as pineapple gazpacho, goat cheese mousse, pan-fried octopus or the Iberian platter with Manchego cheese, chorizo, salchichon (a Spanish summer sausage), sobrasada (raw, cured Balearic sausage), and more.
ที่ตั้ง: 29 Sheep St, Cirencester GL7 1QW, UK
เปิด: Tuesday–Saturday from noon to 2 pm and 6 pm to 8.30 pm
โทร: +44 (0)1285 642777
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5 North Street
Exceptional modern British cuisine with French influences
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5 North Street is a Winchcombe gem of a restaurant serving Anglo-French dishes. Its husband-and-wife team work to their strengths, taking what they learnt under the tutelage of the late French chef and restaurateur Michel Roux Sr. at the Waterside Inn in Bray, Berkshire. The couple has run their successful restaurant since 2003.
With just 26 covers, dining here is an intimate affair. 5 North Street offers a regularly changing menu with dishes that can be enjoyed separately or as a 7-course tasting menu. Typical dishes include chicken liver parfait, Orkney scallops, wild sea bass and free-range duck breast.
ที่ตั้ง: 5 North St, Winchcombe, Cheltenham GL54 5LH, UK
เปิด: Tuesday–Saturday from noon to 10 pm, Sunday from noon to 5 pm (closed on Mondays)
โทร: +44 (0)1242 604566
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Purslane
An upscale and elegant Cheltenham restaurant specialising in seafood
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Purslane is an independently-owned fine-dining restaurant in Cheltenham. Its head chef grew up in a family of butchers, so his passion for seafood is perhaps an understandable reaction to being served fish as a rare treat when he was a child.
Though meat is also served at Purslane, the majority of the dishes on the menu showcase sustainably-caught fresh seafood. The chef’s techniques include sous vide, barbecued and salt-baked. There’s an a la carte menu which changes twice a month, or if preferred, the whole table can opt for a fixed, multi-course tasting experience.
ที่ตั้ง: 16 Rodney Rd, Cheltenham GL50 1JJ, UK
เปิด: Thursday–Saturday from noon to 2.15 pm and 6 pm to 9 pm
โทร: +44 (0)1242 321639
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