No shop, no till, no opening hours just a field gate, a vending machine, and some of the best organic produce in the Cotswolds. Moral of the story: always carry a spoon, because you never know when you'll stumble upon genuine home-made Cotswold ice cream in a field.
Jeremy Clarkson's Cotswold brewery has grown from a regional lager maker into one of the UK’s fastest-growing drinks brands on the strength of a crisp lager — and a taproom with one of the bumpiest approach roads in Gloucestershire.
Seven-times CAMRA North Cotswold Pub of the Year, with its own brewery and two AA Rosettes for the kitchen.
A village green, a Saturday afternoon, and a pub within walking distance for lunch and a G&T — our guide to the Cotswolds' best village cricket, and where to watch it properly.
A 300-year-old coaching inn with its own long-vanished brew-house, still pouring guest ales and cooking with produce from nearby farms every day.
Named for a Civil War viscount, this partly thatched ironstone pub has been pouring pints in Great Tew since the 17th century. And almost right next door to another favourite, Quince & Clover
Witch marks in the cellar, a 2022 refurbishment and produce straight from the Daylesford farm shop just down the road; a lovely place to linger.
Hand-picked classic cars and events at this former WWII RAF Fighter Command base near Bibury; the home of our 1968 Bentley and our 1968 EType Jaguar.
The Bull at Burford wears more than four centuries of history lightly, pairing genuine coaching-inn heritage with a dining concept — open-fire, theatrical, communal — that feels thoroughly of the moment.
Quince and Clover is a genuinely lovely village café rather than a fine-dining destination; the kind of unhurried, well-made brunch stop, with its own coffee and ice cream to match, that rewards a detour through Great Tew ... any excuse really.
Copsegrove Farm Feast offers something genuinely different from a conventional restaurant booking: a communal, seasonal supper on a working Cotswolds farm, built around good food, good company and the calendar of the countryside itself.
Another of our long term favourites, where Laurie Lee drank, wrote about it in Cider with Rosie, and to where we return time and again for a great atmosphere, good company and fine food. Authentic is overused but this is the real deal.
A 1637 coaching inn two miles from Blenheim Palace, now one of the Cotswolds' most decorated gastropubs ... and a firm favourite of ours.
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