Eat and drink · Guiting Power
The Cotswold Guy
A chef-run farm shop and takeaway on Church Lane, Guiting Power, with seats inside and in the garden, which also does catering and events, open every day.
The village's farm shop and café, open seven days a week.
- Good: Open every day, from 9am
- Good: Eat in, in the garden or take away
- Good: Ready meals to order with 72 hours' notice
- Worth knowing: Bank holiday hours vary; check Instagram
About
The Cotswold Guy is a farm shop and takeaway on Church Lane in Guiting Power, near St Michael's Church. It is the original premises of a food business that grew out of private cheffing and also runs catering and private events and an online farm shop.
The shop sells locally sourced British ingredients for cooking at home, and the kitchen makes food to take away or eat in, at tables in the shop or in the garden. The cooking takes its lead from British classics. Pre-prepared meals can be ordered by email with 72 hours' notice. Private events and pre-orders are arranged by phone or in person; prices are not published.
It opens every day from 9am, until 4pm on weekdays and Sundays and 5pm on Saturdays. It suits a coffee and lunch in the village, or supplies before or after the Guiting Power and Naunton walk. Bank holiday hours can differ, so check its Instagram.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 09:00 to 16:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 09:00 to 16:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 to 16:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 to 16:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 to 16:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Sunday | 09:00 to 16:00 |
Bank holiday hours may differ; the business posts changes on Instagram.
The details
- Food
- Café food
- Serving
- Lunch
- Features
- Shop · Café · Garden or terrace
Photos
Fresh produce 
The shop shelves 
From the kitchen 
The butchery counter
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Farmers Arms 0.1 km away
- Guiting Guest House 0.1 km away
- The Hollow Bottom 0.5 km away
- Zonda at the Halfway 2.0 km away
Sights nearby
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Naunton dovecote
Sight · Historic building · Naunton
Naunton's dovecote is a square stone pigeon house of the sixteenth century or earlier, with a gable on each face, a lantern on top and its nesting boxes still inside. Listed Grade II*, it is looked after by a charity, the Naunton Dovecote Trust.
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St Andrew's Church, Naunton
Sight · Church · Naunton
St Andrew's is Naunton's parish church in the Windrush valley: largely rebuilt around 1500 on an older site, with a pinnacled tower carrying two painted sundials, a stone pulpit of about 1500, a Saxon cross and a ring of six bells. Grade II*; open daily.
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St Michael's Church, Guiting Power
Sight · Church · Guiting Power
Guiting Power’s Norman church of about 1180, open daily, with two carved twelfth-century doorways (one capital a head with its tongue out), a fifteenth-century tower, transepts of 1820 and 1844 and Green Men in its roof. Grade II*; accessible toilet in the churchyard.
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Clapper bridge, Lower Harford
Sight · Bridge · Naunton
The clapper bridge at Lower Harford Farm near Naunton is a low bridge of limestone blocks laid flat on stone piers across the Windrush, of the eighteenth century or earlier: a rare survival here of a kind of bridge more often found in upland country. Grade II.