March 2024 by Paul Newman
Stayed for 2 nights with a dog. The room was spacious and tastefully decorated but in need of freshening up. The carpet was stained, but this is to be expected when it's a dog friendly room.The restaurant was quite dark but served great food. We had a steak and burger and both were delicious. The bar area was heaving and made for a great atmosphere.The staff were all really polite and helpful, and would probably stay again if we return to the area.
March 2024 by Jenna Luvin
Wow, wow, wow. Tom Noest knows how to deliver an exceptional pub experience. We visited midday for lunch on Monday - the atmosphere was cosy and tastefully decorated with the fire burning, incredibly welcoming staff, candles lit on every table and jazz roaring in the background. The food was sensational, it was the type of meal that as soon as your food hits your lips you feel cool. A must visit if in the area.
March 2024 by William Wintercross
This is everything a country pub should be warm, warm, cosy, atmospheric with open fires and wonderful historical charm.The food was delicious and service impeccable.
February 2024 by Ana Laura Mohirta
A snug pub, great atmosphere and amazing food and service. Pub food elevated to a unique experience, come for the butter sauce on that cod..
February 2024 by Karen Boyle
Booked a table for Sunday lunch with friends. Food was very good (although a bit more gravy on the roasts is always welcome). The service really let this atmospheric pub down unfortunately- errors made and quite a long wait each time something was requested. Pub was very busy and I wonder if a few more staff working would?ve helped the situation
February 2024 by Sarah Dempsey
Much more than a village pub! Delicious food. Amazing service. Dog friendly, comfortable surroundings and can?t wait to go back!Food & drinks: Shared starters of padron peppers, salt pig speck and flatbread. Mains roast cod, calves liver and chicken Milanese. Pud sticky toffee pudding, salted caramel ice cream and marmalade steamed pudding. All absolutely delicious and will be back for Sunday roasts!
January 2024 by hillybills
Sunday lunch - superb! Faultless food, friendly helpful efficient and well trained staff. But it is so GLOOMY! It?s fine to aim for subtle lighting to create an ?atmosphere? and if you were just going for a drink it would be fine. But to try and eat half tidily you do need to be able to see what?s on your plate, especially if it?s a whole partridge (delicious!) which needs dissection. We love this place but please shine a light on your glorious food - it deserves it!
January 2024 by Jonathan Cons
Good cotswold pub with excellent food menu and service. Looking forward to going back.
December 2023 by normanb917
The Bell is in a great location and makes all the right impressions when you pull into the car park and then step through the front door onto proper flagstones and sit down at proper tables. The menu has a broad selection to cater for all and a superb range of wines and ales. Service was efficient without being overbearing. We selected drinks while deciding on menu choices and once we?d ordered starters and mains didn?t have to wait too long for our first course to be served. The starters were 5* so we couldn?t wait for the mains to arrive. Again they were good ingredients well cooked and presented unfortunately though, 3 of the 4 mains were only warm at best, as were the sides, hence the 3 stars. We perused the desserts but decided that we?d had enough, then within 5 mins of this decision we were informed that the table was required back in 10 mins which we thought was a little zealous because if we?d have ordered desserts we?d probably been eating for at least another 25-30mins.
December 2023 by Nathan Phillips
Can't comment on the rooms as we just went for lunch. Great food. Very busy. Super friendly service. Lovely location.
December 2023 by peter moule
We had our Christmas meal here,amazing food,beer's and very friendly service. Would highly recommend.
December 2023 by Win Scutt
Great food and service. Lovely comfortable rooms. Beautiful part of the world.
December 2023 by James Good
First time at The Bell today, lovely cosy atmosphere and food was fantastic - we wanted a proper country pub lunch and The Bell did not disappoint - shared venison pie fab. Puds too tempting and excellent. Great friendly service too. We?ll be back!
December 2023 by Tammy M
(Pub review)Reserved specifically for a roast dinner and only when seated were we told that?s only served at lunch time. No indication of that on the website where the menus including Sunday menu are listed or the opening times. Incredibly disappointing.The evening didn?t really improve from there; taking over 2h to get through 3 bites worth of starter and a main. A silly amount of that time was waiting for menu (why not just give it when we?re seated??) and an even longer wait to order. Being busy on a Sunday evening shouldn?t really come as a surprise for a pub regularly featuring Cotswolds pub recommendation lists or magazine features, yet the staff seemed unable to keep up.Drinks were empty when the mains were delivered, with no offer for more or ask if anything else was needed.We were in fact only asked if everything was fine after we paid the bill. Undoubtedly would have ordered more drinks and dessert but had no patience left to wait any longer.10/10 food, cosy authentic interior and fair prices but overshadowed by service, or rather lack of.
November 2023 by Rutika Dodeja Hathiramani
We went to the restaurant for dinner.If I had the option of additional stars, they would get them.The food, the service and the atmosphere were on point making it an exceptional evening!
