Eat and drink · Ampney Crucis
The Crown at Ampney Brook
The pub and restaurant of Wild Thyme & Honey at Ampney Crucis, a sixteenth-century coaching inn by the Ampney Brook, formerly the Crown of Crucis, open from breakfast to dinner.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues
The old Crown of Crucis, now the pub and restaurant of the Wild Thyme & Honey hotel: breakfast from 8am, a cheaper fixed-price menu midweek and a smarter dining room upstairs. Well-behaved dogs are welcome.
- Good: Open from 8am for breakfast, every day
- Good: Fixed-price menu Monday to Thursday, £24.95 for two courses (2026)
- Good: Well-behaved dogs welcome
- Good: Cosy pub dining room and a smarter restaurant upstairs
- Worth knowing: Part of a hotel and wedding venue; private events happen
- Worth knowing: On the A417; take care walking to the village
About
The Crown at Ampney Brook is the pub and restaurant of Wild Thyme & Honey, the boutique hotel at Ampney Crucis, about 3 miles east of Cirencester. It is the old Crown of Crucis, a coaching inn of the sixteenth century, by its own account, where the Ampney Brook passes under the A417.
It keeps long hours: breakfast from 8am to 11.30am every day, brunch on Saturdays until 3pm, then lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, with the à la carte menu served until 9pm from Monday to Saturday and a grill night on Thursdays from 5pm. Downstairs is the pub dining room, for soup, a fish finger sandwich or a burger after a walk; upstairs is a smarter restaurant. The fixed-price menu, served from noon to 5pm from Monday to Thursday, was £24.95 for two courses and £29.95 for three in 2026, and there is a Sunday roast and an aperitivo menu. Well-behaved dogs are always welcome.
The kitchen calls its cooking farm to table, with seasonal ingredients and classic dishes given global influences, and the bar mixes cocktails. There are private dining rooms, and the hotel hosts weddings and parties, so book ahead at weekends. The pub was the Gloucestershire county winner at the National Pub & Bar Awards in 2025.
Holy Rood church and its fifteenth-century cross are a few minutes' walk up the village street, and the Saxon carving at Ampney St Peter is a mile east along the brook.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Tue 10, 08:00
| Mon | Opening | Breakfast | Restaurant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 11:30 | 11:30 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 22:00 | 08:00 to 11:30 | 12:00 to 20:00 |
Breakfast: Brunch on Saturdays, 11.30am to 3pm
Restaurant: À la carte Monday to Saturday; Sunday roast from noon (the site gives both 8pm and 9pm as the end)
À la carte Monday to Saturday to 9pm; Sunday roast from noon. Fixed-price menu Monday to Thursday and afternoon tea Monday to Saturday, noon to 5pm. The pub is open to 11pm, Sunday to 10pm.
The details
- Food
- Modern British · Pub classics
- Serving
- Breakfast · Brunch · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Garden or terrace · By the water · Bar · Restaurant · Private dining · Dogs inside · Events and meetings
- History
- A sixteenth-century coaching inn
Photos
Sunday lunch 
Tea on the terrace 
The bar 
The private dining room
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