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Eat and drink · Burford
The Cotswold Arms
A family-run pub on Burford High Street, known in the town as the Coty, with food all day, live music on Friday and Saturday nights, a hidden garden and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
The livelier pub on Burford High Street: food from 11am to 9pm every day, dogs everywhere, and a band at the weekend. Come for lunch if you want it quiet.
- Good: Food every day from 11am to 9pm
- Good: Dogs allowed in the bar, restaurant and garden
- Good: Live music on Friday and Saturday, 9pm to 11pm
- Good: Whole menu available to take away
- Worth knowing: Busy and loud on music nights
About
The Cotswold Arms is on the High Street in Burford, known in the town as the Coty, and it has been run by its landlady, Kizzy, since 2007. Historic England lists the building Grade II and dates it to the late Middle Ages and the late seventeenth century, with a front remodelled in the early to mid nineteenth century. Look for the Tudor arched doorway in its moulded surround and the Gothick door beside it. The pub calls itself fifteenth century.
It is the pub on the High Street with the most going on. Food is served every day from 11am to 9pm, from a menu of pub dishes with a Sunday menu and one for children under 11, and the whole menu can be ordered to take away. On Friday and Saturday evenings a musician plays a two-hour set in the main bar from 9pm, and most people eat first in the restaurant. Dogs are allowed in the bar, the restaurant and the garden, and the staff keep treats behind the bar. The beer garden is hidden: you reach it through the back of the restaurant. A function room seats up to 25, and the raised decking in the garden can be booked for parties of up to 15.
Book through its website or by email. The free car park behind the church is about three minutes away, and St John the Baptist and the Burford town and river walk start a few minutes' walk away, by the church.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 10:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 to 01:00 | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00 to 01:00 | 11:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 11:00 to 21:00 |
Food every day from 11am to 9pm. Live music in the main bar on Friday and Saturday from 9pm to 11pm. The pub stays open to midnight, and to 1am on Friday and Saturday.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Bar · Real ale · Garden or terrace · Live music · Private dining · Dogs inside
- History
- Late medieval and late 17th century, 19th-century front; Grade II
- Parking
- Street parking outside, and the free car park behind the church, about three minutes' walk, the pub says.
Photos
Outside on Priory Lane 
The covered garden 
The log burner 
The Cotswold Arms in autumn Photo: Rodw, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Sights nearby
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Burford Priory
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St John the Baptist, Burford
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St John the Baptist is Burford's great wool church by the Windrush: Norman at its core, with a fan-vaulted porch, the Tanfield and Harman monuments, and the font where a Leveller carved his name before three were shot in 1649. Grade I; open daily, free.
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Burford Bridge
Sight · Bridge · Burford
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River Windrush
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The River Windrush rises on the high wolds of Gloucestershire and runs south-east through Naunton, Bourton-on-the-Water, Burford, Minster Lovell and Witney to join the Thames at Newbridge. Public footpaths follow much of it, and eight of our walks meet it.