Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eat and drink · Swinbrook and Asthall
The Farmer's Dog
Jeremy Clarkson's pub on the A40 at Asthall Barrow, near Burford, opened in August 2024, serving only British food and drink, with a food truck, a butcher and the Diddly Squat farm shop.
Dog-friendly
A pub people travel to for the television connection, run seriously: everything British, from the beef to the fizzy drinks. Tables go fast, but the food truck in the tent needs no booking.
- Good: British-farmed food and drink, as far as it can manage
- Good: Food truck, grill and pizza with no booking needed
- Good: Dogs welcome
- Good: Butcher, bottle shop and Diddly Squat farm shop on site
- Worth knowing: Pub tables must be booked online, and go fast
- Worth knowing: Closed on Mondays, and no phone number
About
The Farmer's Dog is on the A40 at the Asthall Barrow roundabout, about 3 miles (5km) east of Burford and above the village of Asthall in Swinbrook and Asthall. It is Jeremy Clarkson's pub, opened on 23 August 2024 in what had been The Windmill, its making seen on his television series about Diddly Squat farm, and its whole idea is to sell only food and drink grown or reared by British farmers. That means no avocado and no Coca-Cola. Clarkson's own note on its website admits it cannot manage everything, tonic water among them, because quinine cannot be grown here.
There are several ways to eat. The pub itself serves a British menu and a Sunday menu, and its tables must be booked online: each month's tables are released at 9am on the first day of the previous month and go quickly, especially at weekends, and the biggest table seats eight, and the pub takes no bookings by phone, email or message, having no phone at all. Without a booking you can eat from The Farmer's Puppy food truck in the tent, from the pizza counter or from the grill, first come, first served. Every drink is British, from Hawkstone beer and cider to Knollbury Fort wine, and there are bars in the garden.
Beside the pub are Hops and Chops, a butcher and bottle shop, and a branch of the Diddly Squat farm shop. Our story on Clarkson's Farm and Diddly Squat covers the farm itself. Dogs are welcome. The pub opens at 11am from Tuesday to Sunday and the shops at 9.30am, and everything is shut on Mondays. For a quieter meal, the Three Horseshoes is down the hill in Asthall.
The pub's help centre answers the practical questions. Blue Badge parking needs no notice, and the pub is step free, but as a historic building it has no accessible toilet; there are accessible facilities in the Grand Tour tent next door. Motorhomes can use the car park during opening hours but not overnight, and there is no electric car charging. There is no children's menu, though some dishes suit children, and roasts are served on Sundays only. Outside, breakfast runs from 9.30am to noon and lunch until 5pm, or 7pm from Friday to Sunday, and the tent shops close at 7pm, or 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Tue 10, 11:00
| Mon | Opening | Shop |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Closed | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 09:30 to 19:00 |
| Wednesday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 09:30 to 19:00 |
| Thursday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 09:30 to 19:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 09:30 to 20:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 09:30 to 20:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00 to 22:30 | 09:30 to 19:00 |
Shop: The shops in the Grand Tour tent. The site itself opens from 9.30am to 11pm (10.30pm on Sundays)
Closed on Mondays. The pub opens at 11am; the rest of the site from 9.30am. Pub tables are booked online only.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Grill and steak · Pizza
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Booking a table
- Booking required
- Features
- Bar · Restaurant · Garden or terrace · Shop · Parking · Dogs inside
- History
- Opened in August 2024 by Jeremy Clarkson, as seen on Clarkson's Farm
- Without a car
- Stagecoach's 234 between Witney and Burford stops at the pub (Asthall, The Farmers Dog), about hourly from Monday to Saturday and every two hours on Sundays.
Photos
The pub from the lawn Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
The pub sign and garden wall Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
The Hawkstone filling station Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Asthall Manor 1.2 km away
- The Three Horseshoes, Asthall 1.2 km away
- Crocodiles of the World 1.4 km away
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Sights nearby
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St Mary's Church, Swinbrook
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St Oswald's Church, Widford
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St Oswald's is a small thirteenth-century church alone in a field above the Windrush at Widford, between Burford and Swinbrook: built on a Roman villa, the last trace of a lost village, with medieval wall paintings and box pews. Grade II*; reached on foot only.
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St Kenelm's Church, Minster Lovell
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St Kenelm's is the church beside the ruins of Minster Lovell Hall on the Windrush: rebuilt in the mid fifteenth century, probably by William, Lord Lovell, with a vaulted crossing under its central tower and an alabaster tomb thought to be his. Grade I; open daily.
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St John the Baptist, Burford
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St John the Baptist is Burford's great wool church by the Windrush: Norman at its core, with a fan-vaulted porch, the Tanfield and Harman monuments, and the font where a Leveller carved his name before three were shot in 1649. Grade I; open daily, free.