Eat and drink · Cirencester
Sam & Jak
An owner-run restaurant, café and wine bar on Cricklade Street, Cirencester, open from breakfast, with dinner Wednesday to Saturday and supper clubs.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
A café by day and a wine bar and restaurant by night, run by its owners. Dinner is Wednesday to Saturday only.
- Good: Breakfast from 8.30am, Tuesday to Saturday
- Good: Supper clubs and private dining
- Good: Dogs welcome in the bar and downstairs
- Worth knowing: Closed Mondays
- Worth knowing: Dinner Wednesday to Saturday only
About
Sam & Jak is an owner-run restaurant, café and wine bar at 2 Cricklade Street in the centre of Cirencester, a short walk from the Market Place and St John the Baptist. It serves breakfast and lunch from Tuesday to Sunday and dinner from Wednesday to Saturday, and the bar stays open until 12.30am on Fridays and Saturdays.
The cooking is modern British from a menu that changes often with the seasons. The kitchen says it can cater for any dietary need, including vegan, and many dishes can be adapted; ask your server. There are supper clubs through the year, such as a steak-frites night for Beaujolais Nouveau, and the restaurant does private dining, events and outside catering.
Children are welcome; add high chairs and buggies to your booking, though prams may not fit on busy days. Well-behaved, moderately sized dogs can sit in the bar and the downstairs seating, but not upstairs. Book online, or call during opening hours; if a date is full, ask to go on the waiting list.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Tue 10, 08:30
| Mon | Opening | Breakfast | Restaurant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Tuesday | 08:30 to 16:00 | 08:30 to 10:30 | 12:00 to 15:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 08:30 to 10:30 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 08:30 to 10:30 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 08:30 to 00:30 | 08:30 to 10:30 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 08:30 to 00:30 | 08:30 to 10:30 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 09:00 to 16:00 | 09:00 to 11:30 | 12:00 to 14:00 |
Restaurant: Lunch and dinner. Dinner Wednesday to Saturday only.
Closed on Mondays. The opening hours are the bar's.
The details
- Food
- Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Vegan dishes
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Bar · Private dining · Events and meetings · Dogs inside
Photos
The dining room 
Lunch at Sam & Jak 
From the kitchen 
Upstairs
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- New Brewery Arts 0.1 km away
- Black Horse 0.1 km away
- The King's Head 0.1 km away
- Igloo 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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St John the Baptist, Cirencester
Sight · Church · Cirencester
Cirencester's great wool church on the Market Place, free to visit: a fifteenth-century tower you can climb on set Saturdays, a three-storey porch of about 1490 that served as the town hall, fan vaults, medieval glass and the Boleyn Cup. Grade I.
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Cirencester Park
Sight · Common or park · Cirencester
The Bathurst family's landscape park on the western edge of Cirencester, planted from 1714 by the first Earl Bathurst with Alexander Pope: 8km of rides and woods along the Broad Ride, with Pope's Seat and Alfred's Hall. Grade I registered; a day pass is needed.
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Pope's Seat, Cirencester Park
Sight · Historic building · Cirencester
A small stone pavilion of the early eighteenth century at Seven Rides in Cirencester Park, with a Doric portico and POPE'S SEAT cut in its pediment, named after the poet who helped Lord Bathurst lay out the park. Grade II*; a park day pass is needed.