Cotswolds

Fancy heading out of London for a short break in the countryside? Here's our pick of the new openings with interesting food offerings, that you should consider. 

Instead of watching The Holiday on repeat in the run up to the festive season, we took a quick jaunt into the Cotswolds to live that life ourselves for a night or two and try a hot new restaurant and hotel into the bargain.

Just a few weeks ago, The Bull in Charlbury was in the news because of an American politician. Turns out that Kamala Harris (and her security team) had been spotted attending a pre-wedding dinner at the pub before the wedding of Eve Jobs. Fast forward a month and the pub is once more hitting the headlines because of an American politician, but this time it's for who they allegedly didn't serve.

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Having had his plans to run a restaurant at his farm scuppered by local planning restrictions, presenter Jeremy Clarkson has responded by buying a pub instead. Announcing the news in his weekly column for the Sunday Times Clarkson said he's just bought The Windmill - a pub/wedding venue just outside the picture-postcard town of Burford.

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Close enough to London to make it doable for lunch or an overnight stay, the Cotswolds hits that cottagecore spot that Londoners  (and tourists) love. We've scoured the area's country lanes and market towns to find the best places to eat when you're there.

Making plans for a staycation this year? Here's our pick of the UK's newest hotels, inns and restaurants with rooms where you can be sure the food is going to be great.

It sounds like a movie pitch for an indie British movie - returning to your childhood home to buy up the pub there. But that's the actual story behind The Bull at Charlbury where the team behind Notting Hill's The Pelican are now running the show. 

The arrival of Estelle Manor has really shaken up the Cotswolds hotel scene. Hot Dinners checked in to check out the English countryside's most gorgeous new hotel.

A few weeks back we brought you news of Aynho Park, a frankly epic undertaking opening in the Cotswolds with five new restaurants. Now we're back with details of a new place to entice Londoners out of the city, Estelle Manor. Twenty miles away from Aynho you'll find this seriously swanky new