Gloucestershire Restaurants

Champignon Sauvage, Le

Cheltenham conjures up images of rows of wonderful Regency houses and a thoroughly elegant image. However, you will find Le Champignon Sauvage is situated in a rather more mundane street, though quite close to the centre of town.

• Address: 24-26 Suffolk Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2AQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £40.00, Dinner: £64.00

Churchill Arms, The

There must be numerous 'heart-of-the-Cotswolds' villages all with picturesque reasons for the claim but villages like Paxford lend reality to the picture. There are views but they don't get in the way of a working village that has at its heart The Churchill Arms.

• Address: Main Street, Paxford, Chipping Campden, GL55 6XH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): European, Gourmet, Restaurant
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £25.00

Conservatory Restaurant

Calcot Manor has an excellent reputation as one of the most attractive English country house hotels - but not at all grand as it is actually a converted farmhouse - it manages to combine the right balance between formality and friendliness, and many praise the responsiveness of the staff, fortunately there is also excellent food in the restaurant to match to quality elsewhere.

• Address: Calcot Manor, Tetbury, GL8 8YJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, Mediterranean
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £47.00

Conservatory Restaurant, The

Taking its name from the black Hamburg grapes which suspend seductively above you as you dine in the Conservatory restaurant, the Grapevine is well sited in the centre of the town that styles itself 'the antiques centre of the Cotswolds'.

• Address: The Grapevine Hotel, Sheep Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, GL54 1AU (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British, French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £30.00

Crown Inn Restaurant

Not only is the Crown Inn a wonderfully relaxing place to be, Blockley itself must be one of the most attractive of its kind. For those who mourn the passing of the old England this should be a place of pilgrimage thought it is hard to see its faithful guardian inhabitants allowing anyone to change it one jot.

• Address: High Street, Blockley, nr Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9EX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English, Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Daffodil, The

Featured Restaurant

Think Cheltenham, think Regency, think horseracing - and then think Daffodil. Whoever had the wit to acquire an art deco cinema and convert it into a stylish restaurant redolent of the roaring 20s, deserves a medal.

• Address: 18-20 Suffolk Parade, Montpellier, Cheltenham, GL50 2AE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European, Brasserie, Gourmet
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £35.00

Daneway Inn

Elsewhere on this site a nearby place, and very different sort of establishment to the Daneway Inn, is reviewed. Both are completely relevant to the age in which we live, both can appeal to the same sorts of people depending upon their mood and circumstances.

• Address: Daneway, Sapperton, Cirencester, GL7 6LN (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

D'Fly

Cheltenham's D-Fly is the ultimate place for those who want to relax in luxurious comfort while sipping on Oriental themed drinks made from sake and fresh exotic fruit. Not only does it have a welcoming and discreet bar perfect for business meetings, there's also a Buzz Venue on the first floor where wedding receptions and other events can take place.

• Address: 40 Clarence Street, Cheltenham, GL50 3NX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Japanese, Modern British, Thai
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Eight Bells

In the charming market town of Chipping Campden, where most places can be reached on foot, the Eight Bells is just minutes away from the town square. This fourteenth century pub accommodated the stone masons who built the church and later became a home for the tower's bells.

• Address: Church Street, Chipping Campden, GL55 6JG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English, Gastropub
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Eton's Restaurant & Scholar's Lounge

If there is one quality that English country hotels excel in, it must surely be tranquillity. Perhaps this is nowhere more evident than in the Cotswolds, which is peppered with beautiful houses like Washbourne Court, close to the River Eyre and in the centre of the oddly-named Lower Slaughter.

• Address: Washbourne Court Hotel, Lower Slaughter, Cheltenham, GL54 2HS (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French, Modern British, Dinner
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £45.00