Places to eat in Lechlade

Where to eat in Lechlade

Lechlade-on-Thames eats by the river. The Riverside on Park End Wharf has a garden whose edge is the Thames itself, and the Trout Inn, about half a mile out at St John's Bridge, has its own riverside garden beside St John's Lock and its statue of Father Thames. In the town, a café on the square does breakfast and a brasserie on Burford Street does seafood.

Lynwood & Co began here, on the Market Square, in January 2015, and opens from 8am every day for granola, eggs, sandwiches and its Reuben melt, with bread from the group's bakery at Carterton. New Wave Brasserie, opened in October 2022 by the fish merchant Tim Boyd and the chef Bob Parkinson, serves fish mainly from Cornwall, Devon and Scotland, from oysters to whole fish, and sells fish from a market in the passage beside it on Fridays, from 8.30am to 2pm.

The two riverside pubs

The Riverside, an Arkell's pub, serves food every day and all day from Friday to Sunday, with pizzas, a Tuesday pie night and breakfast at weekends. It takes no table bookings: find a table, then order at the bar. The Trout, which dates its life as an inn to 1472 and its name to 1704, is family-run, with a log fire in winter and a marquee and garden bar in summer. It serves lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Sunday, with roasts from noon to 3pm on Sundays, and closes on Mondays.

Under a mile out on the Fairford road, Mulberry and Thyme, the restaurant at Hillier Garden Centre, serves breakfast until 11.30am, lunch and afternoon tea, from 9am to 4.30pm, Monday to Saturday, and 10am to 4pm on Sundays, with hot food until 3.30pm (3pm on Sundays). Afternoon tea needs at least 48 hours’ notice.

Booking, Sundays and children

Book New Wave for dinner, and say when you book if you want lobster or a platter. It opens from Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 3.30pm and 6pm to 10.30pm, and on Sundays only on set dates. The Riverside cannot be booked, so on a sunny weekend arrive early for a table in the garden. On Sundays the Riverside, the Trout and Lynwood & Co (until 3pm) are all open. The Riverside and the Trout both have children's menus, and the garden-centre restaurant is an easy stop with a car full of children.

Prices, dogs and parking

At New Wave, oysters cost £4.50 each or £23 for six in 2026, and mains at the Trout ran from about £16.50 to £24.50. Dogs are welcome in all the Riverside's eating areas, but not in its bedrooms. New Wave asks diners to park at the Memorial Hall, and Mulberry and Thyme has the garden centre's car park. For Kelmscott Manor and the rest of the day, see things to do in Cirencester and the Coln Valley.