I'm not sure I can say enough good things about this place. A 17th century pub and restaurant with…read moremore modern sleeping quarters. The patriarch was running the bar when I was about, and the conversation was pleasant and warm and the beer was cold. The multiple fireplaces, exposed beams and leather couches gave me a sense that besides eating, it would be a great place to pass some time with a friend or in thought. The food: simple yet amazing, the rooms: clean and good enough, the bar and restaurant: a winner.

Traditional English pub with friendly staff and a warm fireplace. I would live here if it was an…read moreoption built in 1843.

This has been my favorite restaurant as we travel through the Cotswolds. It's also an inn with…read moreseven en-suite rooms. They source as much food as possible from the local area. They even have a raised bed garden behind the inn. The inn is in a stunningly beautiful building in the stunningly beautiful village of Upper Oddington, east of Stowe on the Wold. We had a 7:00 pm reservation and were seated immediately in the period dining room. The patrons consisted of local residents at the bar, inn guests and other travelers. The dining room was very clean. The wait staff was very attentive, sharpely dressed and very polite. Norman, the owner, explained the difference between cask and keg beers and allowed me sample several ales and ciders. I selected the cask drawn amber ale from North Cotswold Brewery. It had excellent flavour and a clean finish. Norman also checked on our meal several times. He was very engaging and fun to talk with. Next we ordered dinner. My wife had the ribeye steak with peppercorn sauce, chips, sautéed mushroom and onion rings. The steak was prepared exactly as ordered. The peppercorn sauce was so good she used it on her chips also. The mushroom had excellent flavour and complimented the steak and peppercorn sauce. She had a 1/2 pint of Thatchers Golden Cider, which was also very good. I ordered the special, crispy pork belly with a sweet patato purée, fondant potatoes and roasted new carrots. Everything was excellent and complimented each other. We finished the evening with coffee and the sticky toffee pudding. It was moist, flavourful, drizzled with a caramel sauce and accompanied by a dollop of excellent vanilla ice cream. We didn't need it but finished the whole thing. My wife said it's the best dessert she has ever had. We had an excellent meal and a wonderful time in a lovely setting. People from Stowe, Bourton on the Water, Chipping Camden and even Cheltenham need to get out there. I would go every week if I didn't live 3,000 miles away.

After three weeks of hitting pubs across England and Wales, we hit the jackpot with this one. Great…read moretraditional pub feel, but gastro-pub quality cuisine in addition to the usual. Gourmet desserts. Salmon encruste was excellent as was the whole Sole. Tried a standard pub dish, beef and mushroom pie and it was heavenly homemade with a delicate crust. Plus the owner is an oenophile, so there's a very nice wine list including an extensive list of wines by the glass. Friendly staff. What an unexpected treat and a great blend of traditional and new. Well done!!!

A glorious country pub that is nicely decorated, warm and cosy situated in the beautiful…read morecountryside of Ewen. Stuffed animals line the walls and hops hang from the beams. The bar staff are friendly with regulars chatting to the staff. The pub was packed on a Saturday afternoon, but we managed to find a nice spot reading the weekend papers. There is a courtyard here - perfect for the warmer weather and a restaurant towards the back of the pub. This pub has a very relaxed feel about, and as a result is homely. Added bonus is they have a open log fire too - a real winner in my book!

Fantastic ambience, warm and welcoming. Fireplace roaring,dried hops hanging over the old beams…read more Perfect English pub with good food and great service. Lovely.

My team and I were in Swindon on business from the US last October. My boss said we should go the…read moreThree Crowns for dinner one night, because she was there on a previous visit. I'm a vegan, so my expectations for finding something tasty at a UK Pub didn't seem very high. Even in the US, I find pub menus about the most vegan-unfriendly. I didn't see anything on the menu to eat, so I e-mailed them in advance to see if there were some options available. Not only did they get back to me right away, but they offered me several off-menu options for starters, dinner, and even dessert: Starters: Soup of the day (we can do a veg soup if you book) Orange & Walnut Salad with Watercress & Balsamic Dressing Sun-Blushed Tomato, Olive & Artichoke Salad Dinner: Mushroom Stuffed Vine Tomatoes with Tempura Veg & Salsa Verde Dressing Cous Cous Stuffed Peppers with Mixed Salad & New Potatoes Marinated Tofu & Noodle Stir fry with Bean Sprouts Dessert: Red Wine Poached Pear With Sorbet Fruit Salad with Fruit Coulis Glazed Pineapple with Mango & Chlli Are you kidding me? I don't get great options like this even when eating at restaurants with vegan options. I got the orange/walnut salad, cous cous stuffed peppers and glazed pineapple and everything was fantastic! Some of the best food I've ever eaten. This place can really cook. (By the way, my non-vegan colleagues loved their food as well) If you are vegan and want to go here, please e-mail them in advance, so they can provide some options and plan for your visit. Not only was the food great, but the place has a nice cozy atmosphere and the owner and staff are great. Not only was the service great, but the owner actually drove us all back to our hotel in Swindon, which isn't that close. I can't say enough about this place, because it was such a surprise. I wish they would come to Minneapolis and set up a restaurant here, because it would beat every pub in town. The next time I go to Swindon, I will be back.

Oh Three Crowns! I've waited eight years to write this review! So glad Yelp has finally crossed the…read moresea to reach you! I discovered Three Crowns while working as a consultant in nearby Swindon one summer. This cozy pub was the "go-to" spot whenever the team needed a break from our normal routine (hotel food or late night kebab trucks). Particularly memorable was the "Taste of the Wild"-- kangaroo, ostrich, and venison. The meat wasn't too gamy, and cream sauce was amazing! The homemade desserts are also fantastic. They even have a proper English cheese tray that they roll right up to your table. The Stilton I tried was far and away the best I've ever eaten. And cheese for dessert! Boy, the British sure know how to live! It's a lovely drive into the countryside (including some sketchy single-lane roads!) and well worth it once in a while to splurge on a great meal!

This place was awesome! We stayed directly across the street at The Dozing Duck (Airbnb) so of…read morecourse made a reservation for dinner here. (No reservation needed on the pub side-we ate in the restaurant) The food is locally sourced, fresh and authentic rustic farm to table. Even my side salad was delicious. I highly recommend!!

Our go to whenever we are in Oxford visiting family. They have a nice outdoor area, not a lot of…read moretables with umbrellas but no worries if it is nice out. If you eat in the bar area you go to the bartender order your drink of choice and meal. Hint...if you only feel like a half portion of fish and chips you can order a half order and for me it's a perfect portion of food. They do have a bar menu too if you don't want fish and chips. But really who goes to a pub in England and not order fish and chips. This is the place to do so. They do have a restaurant but I believe you need a reservation for that. Worth every bit for a nice meal out and I believe that the menu is a bit different.

5 stars for ambiance - awesome quintessential English countryside pub…read more 5 stars for food - bacon jam burger was awesome. Fish and chips was awesome. Charcuterie platter was amazing. Beer was great. Everything we ordered we loved. 5 stars for service - very friendly, came around constantly to check on us. Bonus - sat right next to the fireplace on a cold English winter night. Next time we will spend more time here. This is on the short list of getaway spots going forward.

So have we been too harsh giving it a 2/5? We run an award winning inn in Woodstock VT USA and thus…read moredo have high expectations of what is good and what is not. The place is certainly atmospheric and has good food and beer. The staff were very approachable but we feel a fundamental design flaw allows the noise from the bar or other bedrooms to be really unacceptable and it made for an unpleasant stay. To start with the bedroom we were in. A good comfortable four poster bed with great linen, efficient free wi-fi and the obligatory flat screen TV as well as some fresh biscuits and tea making facilities got us off to a good start. The bath was a free standing one that needed a bloody good clean, as it was marked from the shower hose, had dirt and fluff around the waste pipe outside of the bath and the shower attachment squirted water when the taps were running. The condition of the painted walls in the bathroom and bedroom was very scruffy. The large bathroom would also have easily taken a separate free standing shower and we felt corners had been cut with the design and fit out. The carpet on the landing and the stairs was very grubby and badly marked, not helped by having to enter via the outside courtyard, and we felt this was a very poor design feature as had the floors been wooden or tiled they could have at least been cleaned daily. These are all minor individual points but they add up to show a poor level of house keeping. Onto the noise.....the bar below our bedroom was luckily fairly quiet on a Sunday night in November so the level of bar noise could be lived with, but not when the bar is full. The big negative was that in our bedroom you could hear EVERY word of the folks in the next door bathroom, and when the toilet flushed we thought that the cistern was in our bedroom right behind our head board. The bath was filled later that night and we again believed we could touch the water by the noise it created! When ever the next door room was up in the night, or in the morning, our sleep was badly disturbed. They were not being particularly loud and blissfully unaware of the disturbance they were creating. The bad design issue we feel makes the bedroom unacceptable as the basic ingredient of a country B & B/Inn/hotel is a quiet bedroom, as the majority of time spent there should involve SLEEP and not disturbing your fellow residents! The breakfast was fine, but I never got the offered black pudding on the menu and my partners tasty smoked fish omlette was swimming in too much cream....for breakfast does one need cream except in maybe coffee or on porridge? The staff member serving breakfast did a sterling job, but she had to keep moving around, and we had to stare at, the cleaning mop and bucket sitting right next to the bar.. We again feel this is not how a professional hospitality establishment should operate. In conclusion our stay left us disappointed and tired hence our 2/5...we would certainly eat & drink here again but not stay. However if you do decide to stay take ear plugs, drink a fair amount and be an early riser!

Absolutely top notch food - no-one in our group of 4 was disappointed with anything they ordered…read more.. Cheryl was a fabulous waitress - a great sense of humour and many good recommendations. ...only wish we could have got a reservation for the second night we were there ;-) (definitely book in advance!). Absolutely a HUGE recommend...

We had a terrific meal. Simple, well prepared hake and super filling superfood salad by prepared…read morePaul . Molly our server friendly and quite helpful .

Without any hesitation I'll state that I had the best burger of my life here, the Bull Burger! A…read moresubstantial burger in itself accompanied with fries. What stood out most was the quality of the beef, the most tender, succulent cut of ground meat you can ever hope for, and grilled to perfection. I don't get overly excited about burgers, but this was the apex and I thought I had died and gone to burger heaven. All this is a very charming, tasteful pub in the Cotswolds countryside. Comfortable, cozy and oh so pleasant. We came for lunch just after noon at seated in the restaurant. We were given a choice of that or the pub/bar section. I washed it down with a pint of Cotswold Pale Ale... a great choice with the lunch. Service was professional, friendly and fun. They were very engaged and thoughtful and I highly recommend going out of your way to visit and enjoy this establishment.

A very cozy pub with wonderful service. The food was the best we've had in the UK so far…read more Everything was delicious!

Loved this place and was about 6 min away from our Airbnb cottage and was recommended by a few…read morepeople , including the Airbnb owners. It lived up to our expectations indeed. I had the hanger steak entree that came with fries, salad, and onion rings. My bf had the beer battered cod, fries , peas, tarter sauce- both were tasty and yummy to our tummies. To wash it all down, we had Carling beers to help with it... a favorite of England. Service was good, the waitress was busy since a rush of patrons started pouring in and it was basically her, a bartender, and 2 younger girls in training. The restaurant is part of an inn , which we wouldn't mind staying in one day since we do love the area and this restaurant now.

Popped in for lunch today based on a friends recommendation…read more Parking nearby was easy and food and atmosphere really nice and reasonable value for money. We sat in the restaurant area just off the bar so relatively quiet and relaxed. Menu choice was good and the food was nicely cooked and presented. Service was friendly and efficient too. A really pleasant lunch and may well go back.