The Plough, Cold Aston
 Delicious
food and excellent friendly service in a small unspoiled village pub. Closed on Mondays. Advance
booking advised. Now with their own
new website too.
Telephone: +44 (0)1451 821459
The Inn at
Fossebridge
 This
300 year old traditional coaching inn set in a dramatic dip on the Fosse Way was
refurbished in 2007 and is now receiving
excellent reports from contented diners. Telephone: +44
(0)1285 720721
The Old Butchers,
Stow-on-the-Wold
 Excellent
food and a London ambience in the heart of Stow which has thereby graciously
risen above Adrian Gill's critique of this chocolate-box town. Notoriously
slow service coupled with "needing the table back" and need to book makes you
feel more SW3 than GL54.
Telephone: +44 (0)1451 831700
The Hare and Hounds,
Foss Cross, Chedworth
 The
Hare and Hounds deservedly won an AA rosette award last year. With three
or four dining rooms in a traditional country inn setting this has become one of
the Cotswolds top pubs since its refurbishment four years ago. Telephone:
+44 (0)1285 720288
Hollow Bottom, Guiting Power
A comfortable pub with great food and a well-known destination for the
local racing crowd who make it a convivial as well as a gastronomic evening.
Also a useful and welcome stopping-off point close to many of the lovely local
walks, although getting going again may prove tricky...
Telephone: +44 (0)1451 850392
The Fox, Lower Oddington
 A busy, social pub with great simple food, a solid feel and even its own wine museum.
One of our favourites.
Telephone: +44 (0)1451 870555
Fox Inn,
Broadwell
A recent guest 'find', and another pub going under the Fox name, a couple of
miles from Stow-on-the-Wold. An attractive and welcoming traditional pub,
not too "restaurant-y", but with a particularly good selection of vegetarian
alternatives.
Telephone: +44 (0)1451 870909
Kings Head, Bledington
 A
classic Cotswold pub with a brasserie feel inside and
traditional ducks on the village green outside (about which there has been some recent local controversy...)
Telephone: +44 (0)1608 658365
Seven Tuns, Chedworth
A crossroads of the Cotswolds: convenient for walkers, cyclists and
visitors to the Roman Villa nearby.
Unpretentious food and fine for ‘just a drink' too and with a very pro-family
feel (Great, unless you are trying to avoid the kids!) Telephone: +44 (0)1285 720242
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A little further afield
Churchill, Paxford
 No reservations and a chef on her way to celebrity
status make this a favourite,
drawing customers from far and wide. Certainly worth the extra distance if making a trip to Chipping
Campden.
Telephone: +44 (0)1386 594000
The Plough, Ford
 Loads
of horsey atmosphere and great food at this traditional 16th Century inn right
next door to Jonjo O'Neil's Jackdaws Castle racing stables in the tiny hamlet of
Ford. Telephone: +44 (0)1386 584215
Bell, Sapperton
Horses have been seen tied up outside this excellent pub which
uses local produce in imaginative
ways and where dogs are welcome too. Telephone: +44 (0)1285 760298
Fox
Inn, Great Barrington
 A traditional inn in a pretty sitting by the
Windrush, just round the corner from the Inn for All Seasons.
They recently announced that they were creating a 'no smoking' bar, which may be a
Gloucestershire first. Telephone: +44 (0)1451 844385
Lamb Inn, Great Rissington
A quiet, but substantial village pub near Bourton-on-the-Water.
Telephone: +44 (0)1451 820388
New Inn, Coln St Aldwyns
 Fishing and drinking are as central to the New
Inn as their excellent food. A (slightly unsteady)
riverside walk to Bibury is a traditional undertaking here after a fine evening's consumption.
Telephone: +44 (0)1285 750651
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