Gloucestershire Restaurants

Restaurant at The Close Hotel

Located in the heart of the well preserved and even better connected town of Tetbury, Close Hotel is the archetype ruris in urbe with the best of both. An attractive garden offers opportunity for a sharpener in the cool of a summer's evening or a post-prandial stroll before the nightcap.

• Address: 8 Long Street, Tetbury, GL8 8AQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £48.00

Restaurant at The Crown of Crucis

Standing beside the Ampney Brook and overlooking the village cricket green, the 16th century Crown of Crucis has adapted well to the needs of the 21st century and offers a lovely English country house hotel ambience to its guests.

• Address: Ampney Crucis, Cirencester, GL7 5RS (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Restaurant at The Dial House Hotel

Welcome to the Which Awarded Most ravishing restaurant with rooms 2005. Now that's quite a title to live up to but indications are that it's all in a day's work for this charismatic, mellow stone manor house in deepest Gloucestershire where there is a constant round of log fires, fresh flowers and the sort of service that in some parts of England seems to have disappeared for ever.

• Address: The Chestnuts, High Street, Bourton-on-the-Water, GL54 2AN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £27.00, Dinner: £41.00

Restaurant at The Fox Inn

Every so often you come across a restaurant, or as they would have said in the 1662 Prayer Book if they'd been talking about food instead of singing, "dining rooms and places where they eat", where you instinctively know as you walk through the door that they've got it right.

• Address: Lower Oddington, nr Stow-on-the-Wold, GL56 0UR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £36.00

Restaurant at The Greenway

Part of the Von Essen Group, a name known for restrained luxury in its hotels and restaurants, The Greenway is no exception. No more than 10 minutes drive from the M5, The Greenway was built in 1584 and takes its name from the pre-Roman path that runs through the outstanding gardens, that surround this unspoiled Cotswold country house.

• Address: Shurdington, Cheltenham, GL51 4UG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French, Modern
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £30.00, Dinner: £60.00

Restaurant at The Kings Arms Hotel

The Kings Arm, a rather resplendent Gloucestershire pub with rooms, is one of those wonderful survivals, some 500 years old, mullioned windows, welcoming interior, particularly now that it has been given a good shake-up and decorated in a way which encourages thoughts of long lunches, lazy afternoons and general indulgence.

• Address: Market Square, Stow-on-the-Wold, GL54 1AF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £38.00

Restaurant at The Malt House

Imagine a cosy 15th-century Cotswold cottage, complete with such accessories as wood panelling and oak beams, and you have The Malt House. The atmosphere is well laid back, but certainly not on the part of the staff who are completely on the mark.

• Address: Broad Campden, Chipping Campden, GL55 6UU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Restaurant at The Malvern View Hotel

The Malvern View Hotel's location is certainly enviable, with sweeping vistas of the Malvern Valley in the front and Cleeve Common, designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, to the rear.

• Address: Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham, GL52 3PR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £11.00, Dinner: £36.00

Restaurant at The New Inn At Coln, The

This ancient inn has a long history of lifting the hearts of travellers and visitors with the excellence of its victuals and warmth of its welcome. It is, of course, for debate as to whether or not the Cotswolds produces more congenial hotels and pubs with restaurants than anywhere else in Britain but I know where my money would go.

• Address: Colne St Aldwyns, nr Cirencester, GL7 5AN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, French, Mediterranean
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £42.00

Restaurant at The Old Manse Hotel

The thought occurs that ministers of religion did not fare too badly in the 18th century, and this handsome house makes an ideal place to eat in the middle of a setting as delightful as this picture-book village, with the River Windrush flowing gently past a few yards from the front door.

• Address: Victoria Street, Bourton-on-the-Water, GL54 2BX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00