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Eat and drink · Painswick
Painswick Golf Club Bar and Café
The clubhouse bar and café of Painswick Golf Club on Painswick Beacon, open to non-golfers and dogs, with a sun terrace, breakfasts, lunches and a monthly carvery.
Dog-friendly
A clubhouse on Painswick Beacon that welcomes visitors and their dogs as well as golfers: coffee and cake on the terrace after the climb, or a booked carvery on one of its set Sundays.
- Good: Golfers, guests and dogs welcome
- Good: Sun terrace over the 18th hole and the Slad valley
- Good: Breakfast, lunch, cakes and afternoon tea
- Good: Sunday carvery on set dates, £20 (2026)
- Worth knowing: Opening hours are not published
- Worth knowing: Carvery must be booked ahead
About
Painswick Golf Club's clubhouse bar and café sits on Painswick Beacon, under a mile north of the village of Painswick, by the course David Brown of the Malvern Club laid out in 1891. The club says golfers, guests and dogs are all welcome, so it works as a stop for walkers on Painswick Beacon as much as for golfers.
The café serves breakfast, light lunches and more substantial dinners, with hot drinks and cakes through the day and afternoon tea as an upgrade. A large sun terrace at the back looks over the 18th hole towards the Slad valley.
On set Sundays a carvery is served by Tom Horton: in 2026 the dates were 27 September, 25 October, 29 November and 20 December, at £20, or £25 with pudding, booked on 01452 812180 or by email to [email protected]. The clubhouse can also be hired, for anything from a small gathering to a party of 100 guests.
The club does not publish the café's opening hours, so ring before you set out. The walk from Painswick to Painswick Beacon climbs past the course, and the Rococo Garden is on the way back into the village.
Opening hours and season
Hours are not published; ring the restaurant. Sunday carvery on 29 November and 20 December 2026, booked ahead.
The details
- Food
- Café food · Pub classics
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Afternoon tea · Sunday lunch
- Features
- Bar · Views · Garden or terrace · Events and meetings · Dogs inside
- History
- Golf club founded in 1891
Photos
The terrace 
Crème brûlée 
A buffet in the clubhouse 
A green inside the hill fort Photo: Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
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- St Anne's 1.2 km away
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Sights nearby
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Painswick Beacon
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Painswick
Painswick Beacon is a hill north of Painswick, about 280m high, crowned by a large Iron Age hill fort with triple ramparts. Royalist troops camped here in 1643. It is open common land on the Cotswold Way, shared with a golf course, with views over the Severn Vale.
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Quaker Meeting House, Painswick
Sight · Historic building · Painswick
Painswick's Friends Meeting House is a plain stone meeting house of 1706 off Vicarage Street, built on land given by the Loveday family and still used by Quakers every Sunday. Its walled garden, an old burial ground, is open for quiet reflection. Grade II.
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Painswick Stream
Sight · River · Painswick
The Painswick Stream runs south in the valley below Painswick to the River Frome at Stroud. It drove the town's cloth trade: 25 mills stood in the parish in 1820. Footpaths follow it past Loveday's Mill, Skinners Mill and Kingsmill, old mills that are now homes.
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St Mary's Church, Painswick
Sight · Church · Painswick
St Mary's is Painswick's Grade I parish church, of the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with a tall stone spire, set in a churchyard of clipped yews and carved table tombs that is on the national Register of Parks and Gardens. Open daily; the clipping is each September.