152 places · every place verified by us
Village pubs from the local breweries, farm shops and markets, and a few restaurants with stars. Here is how to eat well in the Cotswolds, and where the good food is.
152 places
Cafes and tearooms · Malmesbury
A café inside Malmesbury Abbey, open Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 3.30pm, with Fairtrade coffee, soup, toasties and cakes, and tables in the Cloister Gardens in warm weather.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Burford
An inn on Witney Street, Burford, run by the King family since 2011, with an AA Rosette for its cooking, a walled garden and sun terrace, three bedrooms and food from breakfast onwards.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Woodstock
A pub, wine bar and small-plates restaurant on Park Lane in Woodstock, with two AA Rosettes in 2024 and 2025 and a Sunday roast.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Charlbury
A seventeenth-century coaching inn on Church Street in Charlbury, run by Daylesford Stays, with a modern British pub menu using produce from the Daylesford farm, log fires, an orchard garden of nearly an acre and rooms.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Sapperton and Frampton Mansell
A village inn at Sapperton, above the Golden Valley, known for its food and its Wine Wall of bottles at shop prices, with rooms, horse parking and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · EV charging
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Avening
The village pub on Avening High Street, a Cotswold inn that also serves Indian food in its restaurant and as a takeaway, open from mid-afternoon.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Moreton-in-Marsh
A Donnington Brewery town pub on Moreton-in-Marsh High Street, with a restaurant serving hearty pub food, Sunday roasts and Donnington ales.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Shipston-on-Stour
A pub with a Thai restaurant on Station Road, Shipston-on-Stour, which says it is the town's oldest pub, with a licence going back to 1540.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Amberley
A traditional pub at Littleworth on the edge of Minchinhampton Common, with a conservatory looking across the valley, over 70 whiskies and food every day; children, dogs and muddy boots welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Charlbury
An inn on the corner of Sheep Street in Charlbury, there since the early 1500s by its own account, with a dining room built around open-fire cooking, vegetables from its own market garden, rooms, and breakfast for anyone from 8am.
Dog-friendly · Car-free
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Painswick
A free house in the Sheepscombe valley, about two miles by road from Painswick, in Laurie Lee country, with dogs on a lead welcome in the garden and bar.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly · EV charging
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Tetbury
A village pub with eight en suite bedrooms at Shipton Moyne, about 2.5 miles from Tetbury, with well-behaved dogs welcome throughout.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Bibury
A family-run pub and restaurant in Arlington, the upper part of Bibury, cooking from local suppliers since 2009, with a garden, an open fire and four rooms.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Marshfield
A Grade II* listed seventeenth-century inn on Marshfield's High Street, about 8 miles north of Bath by road, with real ales, three bed and breakfast rooms, a private dining room and dogs welcome in the pub.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Kingham
A Lionhearth Group gastropub on Church Road in Churchill, about 2 miles from Kingham, with an open fire, a garden terrace, two private dining rooms and dogs and children welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Longborough
A Donnington Brewery pub on a bank above the green and war memorial in Longborough, with a log fire, a garden, a changing menu of local produce and Sunday roasts.
Verified Nov 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Fairford
A small coffee shop and custom cake maker on Fairford's Market Place, open weekday mornings and Saturday mornings, that also sends boxes of its cakes by post.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Burford
A family-run pub on Burford High Street, known in the town as the Coty, with food all day, live music on Friday and Saturday nights, a hidden garden and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Farm shops and delis · Guiting Power
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.
Verified Oct 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Bourton-on-the-Water
A café and restaurant on Riverside in Bourton-on-the-Water, by the Windrush, serving breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea daily and dinner on Fridays and Saturdays.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Restaurants · Ampney Crucis
The pub and restaurant of Wild Thyme & Honey at Ampney Crucis, a sixteenth-century coaching inn by the Ampney Brook, formerly the Crown of Crucis, open from breakfast to dinner.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Sapperton and Frampton Mansell
An old village inn at Frampton Mansell, by its own account a seventeenth-century cider house, with log fires, local ales, a big garden and views over the Golden Valley, open every day.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Minchinhampton
A Young's pub in the old coaching inn on Minchinhampton's High Street, opposite the Market House, with a hidden garden, Sunday roasts and a monthly quiz.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Bourton-on-the-Water
A village inn with rooms on Sherborne Street, Bourton-on-the-Water, serving food from noon to 9pm every day, with deal nights in the week, a Sunday carvery and live sport.
Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Three breweries supply many of the region's pubs. Donnington Brewery's pubs include the Black Horse at Naunton, the Mount Inn at Stanton and the White Bear at Shipston-on-Stour. Hook Norton runs the Great Western Arms at Blockley, and Wadworth the White Hart at Castle Combe and the George and the Red Lion at Lacock. Our guide to Cotswold pubs and the breweries behind them tells their stories, and our pub walks end at many of their pubs. Our pick of the best pubs in the Cotswolds goes from village greens to riverbanks.
Bybrook, the restaurant at the Manor House at Castle Combe, kept its Michelin star in the 2026 guide. The Trough at Daylesford Farm, near Kingham, holds a Green Michelin star, as do the farm's other two restaurants, the Legbar and the Old Spot.
Daylesford's farm shop opens every day, from 8am to 6pm and from 9am to 5pm on Sundays. Stroud's farmers' market fills the streets around Cornhill every Saturday morning, and Cirencester's Charter Market runs on Mondays and Fridays. In Coln St Aldwyns the village shop, café and post office is owned by the people of Coln St Aldwyns, Hatherop and Quenington, through a community company set up in 2012; Anne Robinson opened the refurbished shop in June 2013. Our page on Stroud Farmers' Market has the trains and parking.
Near Biddestone, Allington Farm Shop has its own butchery, a deli, a bakery and a licensed café.
In the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, the Kingham Plough on the green opens daily from 8.30am, and the Wild Rabbit, also at Kingham, serves dinner from Wednesday to Sunday. In the Coln valley, the New Inn at Coln St Aldwyns and the dog-friendly Keepers Arms at Quenington are in neighbouring villages on the Coln, a short walk apart. The Eight Bells in Chipping Campden opens daily from noon, and the Lamb Inn at Burford welcomes dogs.
At Northleach, the café in the Georgian Old Prison opens daily from 9am to 4pm, and at Cogges in Witney the café sits in a manor farm's grounds. For scones and cream, see afternoon tea in the Cotswolds, from country house hotels at the Slaughters to tearooms in Chipping Campden and Stow.
Nailsworth has William's, a seafood restaurant, fishmonger and deli that William Beeston set up in 1975. Tetbury and Stroud both hold weekly markets.
Region by region, see where to eat in the North Cotswolds, the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, the Coln Valley, Stroud and the Five Valleys, the Cotswold Edge and the South Cotswolds.
Six village pubs a short way out of the towns, from Childswickham to Shipton Moyne.
Pubs · Broadway
A village pub and brasserie at Childswickham, about two miles from Broadway, with cask ale and ciders, a daily specials board, a garden and a dog-friendly bar.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Tetbury
A village pub with eight en suite bedrooms at Shipton Moyne, about 2.5 miles from Tetbury, with well-behaved dogs welcome throughout.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Kingham
A Lionhearth Group gastropub on Church Road in Churchill, about 2 miles from Kingham, with an open fire, a garden terrace, two private dining rooms and dogs and children welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Guiting Power
A pizza pub at the Halfway in Kineton, about a mile from Guiting Power, with small plates, Sunday roasts and a set lunch, open Wednesday to Sunday.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Winchcombe
A traditional Cotswold inn at Toddington, about 3 miles north of Winchcombe, with homemade food, Donnington ales and a beer garden.
Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Chipping Campden
A village pub in Ebrington, about 3 miles by road from Chipping Campden, with a landscaped terrace and garden, food every day and five rooms.
Verified Oct 2026
Breakfast to dinner in Cirencester, Nailsworth and near Malmesbury.
Restaurants · Cirencester
A family-run restaurant on Castle Street, Cirencester, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, with coffee, wine and cocktails, and dogs welcome downstairs.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Farm shops and delis · Cirencester
A sandwich deli on Black Jack Street, Cirencester, from the team behind the Gilbertine Kitchen in Tetbury.
Verified Nov 2026
Farm shops and delis · Cirencester
An organic farm shop and café at Abbey Home Farm on the Burford Road outside Cirencester, which began its organic conversion in 1990, with walks round the farm and EV charging.
EV charging
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Nailsworth
An independent bar and kitchen on George Street, Nailsworth, open Thursday to Sunday from 9am for brunch, with burgers and pizza Thursday to Saturday.
Verified Nov 2026
Restaurants · Nailsworth
A tasting-menu restaurant on Market Street, Nailsworth: eight courses at one 7pm sitting, Wednesday to Saturday, with no menu.
Verified Nov 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Malmesbury
A café, kitchen and bar at Bradfield Manor Farm, Hullavington, about 5.5 miles by road south of Malmesbury, open Wednesday to Sunday since August 2026.
Verified Nov 2026
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Yes. Bybrook at the Manor House, Castle Combe, kept its Michelin star in the 2026 guide, and the Trough and the farm's two other restaurants at Daylesford hold a Green Michelin star.
Every Saturday morning, on Cornhill and the streets around it.
Donnington, Hook Norton and Wadworth among others.
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