Eat and drink · Charlbury
The Bell at Charlbury
A seventeenth-century coaching inn on Church Street in Charlbury, run by Daylesford Stays, with a modern British pub menu using produce from the Daylesford farm, log fires, an orchard garden of nearly an acre and rooms.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
The Daylesford touch on a town pub: farm produce on a pub menu, fires and board games in winter, an orchard garden with a pizza oven in summer. Dogs are welcome by the fire in the bar.
- Good: Produce from the Daylesford farm
- Good: Orchard garden of nearly an acre, with a pizza oven in summer
- Good: Dogs and families welcome
- Good: Food every day, lunch and dinner
- Worth knowing: Garden closed in the colder months
About
The Bell is a seventeenth-century coaching inn on Church Street in Charlbury, once a place to dine and stable a horse for the night. It belongs to Daylesford Stays, the hospitality side of Daylesford, whose pubs include the Wild Rabbit at Kingham, and it has twelve bedrooms above the pub and the Barn.
The dining room serves a modern British menu that mixes pub classics with dishes built round seasonal produce, much of it from Daylesford's organic farm. There is a Sunday lunch, a pudding menu, a breakfast menu and one for children. The bar, made from ash from the Daylesford estate, pours cask ales, craft beer from independent British breweries and draught cider.
Food runs from noon to 2.30pm and from 6pm to 9pm, to 9.30pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and on Sundays from noon to 3pm and 6pm to 9pm. A bar menu runs from noon to 9pm, Monday to Saturday. The pub opens from 10am to midnight every day. Inside are large inglenook fires where families play board games and dogs settle down, and a snug behind the bar.
Behind the pub is an orchard garden of just under an acre, with apple trees, wildflowers, a stream and a garden bar over two terraces. In summer a wood-fired oven turns out sourdough pizzas there. The garden closes for the colder months. The Barn, a private dining room for up to 28, cooks over a wood-fired grill.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 10:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:30 |
| Saturday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:30 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
The details
- Food
- Modern British · Pub classics · Pizza
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Open fire · Real ale · Restaurant · Bar · Private dining · Dogs inside · Dogs in rooms
- History
- Seventeenth-century coaching inn
Photos
A bedroom 
The dining room 
Sunday lunch 
Food in the bar
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