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Twin open fires and flagged floors set the tone at this old Cotswold inn turned gastropub, where the kitchen cooks over flame and changes the menu as often as the farmers call. The team behind London's The Pelican came home to Charlbury to restore it, and the terse, ingredient-led dishes feel like the point rather than the ambition. It ranks in the Top 50 Gastropubs and is in the Michelin Guide. Rooms upstairs if you miss the last train.
The awards strongest first
- Great British Pub Awards 2025 · Best Pub for Food · Great British Pub Awards
- Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 · #28 · Top 50 Gastropubs
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
One number, weighted & current 91
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Salt baked celeriac
“Delights on the menu include salt baked celeriac, green sauce; rump, black cabbage; cuttlefish, celery and chicken liver, pickles and whole partridge, bacon, cabbage.”
Top 50 Gastropubs, 2026 -
Whole partridge
“Delights on the menu include salt baked celeriac, green sauce; rump, black cabbage; cuttlefish, celery and chicken liver, pickles and whole partridge, bacon, cabbage.”
Top 50 Gastropubs, 2026 -
Peppercorn cured sausage
“bar snacks include peppercorn cured sausage, game tea, liver toast and sausage roll.”
Top 50 Gastropubs, 2026 -
Cod with smokey kipper sauce
“There is a relaxed and intimate feel to the place, and an understated quality to the tersely described dishes that simply let the first-rate ingredients shine, such as cod with smokey kipper sauce and juicy leeks.”
Michelin Guide
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- The Bell Modern British Eat · 69
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