Eat and drink · Blockley
Blockley Café
A licensed, chef-led café on Bell Lane in Blockley, joined to the community-funded village shop, open every day for breakfast, lunch and cream teas, with booked dinners from Wednesday to Saturday and dogs allowed downstairs.
Dog-friendly
Better cooking than the word café suggests, from a chef who grew up in the village. Walk in by day. Book for dinner, Wednesday to Saturday. Dogs are fine downstairs.
- Good: Open seven days, 363 days a year
- Good: Chef-led, seasonal menus
- Good: Dogs allowed downstairs
- Good: Licensed, with dinner from 6.30pm, Wednesday to Saturday
- Worth knowing: No daytime bookings: walk in
- Worth knowing: Dinner must be booked online
About
Blockley Café is on Bell Lane in Blockley, in a Cotswold stone building paid for by the village and the Lottery Fund, joined to the village shop. It is licensed and chef-led: Craig Stanley, who grew up in Blockley and cooked at Buckland Manor, the Slaughters Manor House and helped open Soho Farmhouse, has run it since 2017.
By day it serves breakfast and brunch, lunch, sandwiches, salads, cakes and cream teas, from seasonal menus built on local suppliers, with as much as possible made from scratch. From Wednesday to Saturday evenings it serves the Kembleford Seasonal Supper, a menu of more ambitious dishes that changes every four weeks, and there is wine, gin and artisan boards to share.
It is open every day of the year except two. Between 9am and 5pm it is walk-in only, and dinner, from 6.30pm on Wednesday to Saturday, is booked online. Well-behaved dogs are allowed downstairs, and there is free wifi.
The walk to Batsford Park starts from Bell Lane, outside the door, and comes back in about two and a quarter hours, which leaves time for lunch.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
Walk-in from 9am to 5pm every day. Dinner Wednesday to Saturday from 6.30pm, booked online, closing at 9pm. Open 363 days a year.
The details
- Food
- Café food · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Brunch · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner
- Features
- Café · Wi-Fi · Dogs inside
- History
- Run by the chef Craig Stanley since 2017
Photos
Cured salmon 
A pudding 
A table by the window 
Doughnuts and coffee
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Great Western Arms 0.3 km away
- Cotswold Falconry Centre 2.4 km away
- Batsford Arboretum 2.4 km away
- The Horse and Groom 2.6 km away
Sights nearby
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St Peter and St Paul, Blockley
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St Peter and St Paul is Blockley's church by the square, founded about 800 by its own account: a late twelfth-century chancel, medieval brasses, Childe and Rushout monuments and a tower of 1725 to 1727 attributed to the Woodwards. Grade II*, open daily and Father Brown's church.
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Russell Spring, Blockley
Sight · Monument · Blockley
The Russell Spring is a small gabled niche on Blockley's High Street, inscribed "Water from the Living Rock God's Precious Gift to Man", built in the middle of the nineteenth century by men out of work in winter, in the wall below a raised walkway. Grade II; seen at any time.
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St Mary's Church, Batsford
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St Mary's is the estate church of Batsford, near Moreton-in-Marsh: rebuilt in 1861 and 1862 for the Mitford family in a neo-Norman style, with a spired tower, an apsidal chancel, Kempe glass and monuments to the Freemans and Mitfords. Grade II*.
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Market Hall, Chipping Campden
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The open arcade of 1627 in the middle of Chipping Campden's High Street, built by Sir Baptist Hicks as a sheltered market for butter, cheese and poultry, saved from sale to America in the 1940s and now the National Trust's. Grade I; the Cotswold Way starts beside it.