Eat and drink · Nailsworth
Wilder
A tasting-menu restaurant on Market Street, Nailsworth: eight courses at one 7pm sitting, Wednesday to Saturday, with no menu.
One sitting, eight courses and no menu: an evening to book ahead for. The Friday lunch and Saturday brunch are a cheaper way in.
- Good: Eight courses at one 7pm sitting
- Good: Alcohol-free drinks pairing as well as wine
- Good: Friday lunch and a Saturday Champagne brunch
- Worth knowing: No menu; book online for up to four, by phone for more
- Worth knowing: £145 to £160 a head with drinks
About
Wilder is a tasting-menu restaurant on Market Street in Nailsworth, run with Wild Garlic, its partner for rooms across the road. Wilder opened in November 2017 as Wild Garlic's sister restaurant; the chef, Matthew Beardshall, who runs both with his wife Hannah, has more than thirty years in kitchens, and the restaurant shows AA Rosette, Michelin and Trencherman's logos on its site.
Dinner is a surprise tasting menu of eight courses at a single sitting, at 7pm from Wednesday to Saturday, with no printed menu. It costs £145 with five matched alcohol-free drinks or £160 with five matched wines, both including water, tea or coffee and a petit four.
There are two shorter ways to try it: a four-course lunch on Fridays at midday for £48, and a five-course Champagne brunch on Saturdays at 11.30am for £70. The Front Room, at the front of the restaurant, serves grazing boards and wine at a few small tables and a window bar, from 6.30pm to 9pm on the same evenings. Tables for up to four are booked online with a card; ring 01453 835483 for larger groups. The restaurant gets in touch beforehand about allergies and preferences. Parking in the town is free, and the restaurant advises booking a taxi home in advance, for about 10pm after the tasting menu.
Opening hours and season
Dinner Wednesday to Saturday at 7pm; the Front Room 6.30pm to 9pm. Friday four-course lunch at midday; Saturday five-course Champagne brunch at 11.30am.
The details
- Food
- Fine dining · Modern British
- Serving
- Brunch · Lunch · Dinner
- Booking a table
- Booking required
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar
- History
- November 2017, as Wild Garlic's sister restaurant
- Parking
- Free town car parks; the nearest, on Old Market, is 20 paces from the door. Daytime limits of two or four hours; park overnight after 6pm.
- Without a car
- Buses from Stroud and Cheltenham, but the last ones leave early: book a taxi back. There is no Uber here.
Photos
Caramelised aubergine 
The dining room and kitchen 
A sharing plate 
A salmon starter
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Wild Garlic Rooms 0.1 km away
- William's 0.1 km away
- The Olive Tree, Nailsworth 0.3 km away
- Waterloo House 0.3 km away
Sights nearby
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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.
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Whitfield's Tump, Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
Whitfield's Tump is a Neolithic long barrow on Minchinhampton Common, a low mound 26m long where early farmers buried their dead, named from the tradition that the preacher George Whitefield spoke from it in 1743. A scheduled monument on free National Trust land.
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The Bulwarks, Minchinhampton
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
The Bulwarks is a Late Iron Age bank and ditch that sweeps across Minchinhampton Common north and north-west of the town: a bank 10m to 12m wide with a stone face, dated by pottery found in the 1937 excavation. It lies on free National Trust common land.
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Market House, Minchinhampton
Sight · Historic building · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton's Market House was built in 1698 by the lord of the manor, Philip Sheppard, for the wool and yarn trade: an open arcade on stone piers with a hall above. Listed Grade II*, it still holds a country market on Wednesday mornings.