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Bath & Cotswolds has 4 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, alongside wine-shop bistros, small-plates restaurants and country-house dining rooms. Bath has the largest selection of venues in the destination, with modern British tasting menus, natural wine and Mediterranean small plates among its dining styles. Cheltenham brings seasonal French cooking, modern Indian tasting menus and a wine bar recognised by the World's Best Wine Lists Awards. Extensive lists accompany both tasting menus and smaller plates across these cities. The wine programmes vary in style as well as setting. Corkage has a Eurocentric list with skin-contact wines, while Beckford Bottle Shop leans towards French and Italian producers. The Grape Escape offers guided wine flights alongside cheese and charcuterie. Beyond those cities, Broadway has an intimate open-kitchen tasting menu, Castle Combe combines starred country-house dining with a village gastropub, and Stow-on-the-Wold adds charcoal-grilled seafood and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.

Bath tasting menus and wine-led small plates

Bath combines Michelin-starred modern British cooking with wine-shop dining and Mediterranean small plates. Its tasting-menu restaurants also include an open-kitchen format and an intimate French-led kitchen.

  • Olive Tree

    Olive Tree in Bath city centre serves Michelin-starred modern British tasting menus with an extensive wine list. The kitchen uses local and regional produce, and chefs present and explain the courses at the table.

  • Corkage

    Corkage on Chapel Row pairs Mediterranean small plates with an extensive, hand-selected Eurocentric wine list. Skin-contact wines and by-the-glass options feature in its wine programme, which has recognition from Star Wine List.

  • Beckford Bottle Shop

    Beckford Bottle Shop in Bath city centre combines a wine shop with a Michelin Bib Gourmand bistro serving modern British small plates. Its extensive list leans heavily towards French and Italian producers, with over 30 wines by the glass.

  • Menu Gordon Jones

    Menu Gordon Jones in Bear Flat serves a daily-changing surprise tasting menu combining English, Indian and Asian influences with seasonal local produce. The intimate restaurant has an open kitchen, an extensive wine list and Michelin Plate recognition.

  • wilks

    wilks offers intimate modern French fine dining with tasting menus, set menus and prix fixe formats. James Wilkins combines a classical French foundation with British fish and shellfish, acting as cook, waiter and sommelier in a Michelin Plate-recognised restaurant.

Cheltenham French and Indian dining with serious wine lists

Cheltenham has Michelin-starred French and seasonal fine dining alongside modern Indian tasting menus. Its wine selection also includes guided flights and an internationally recognised wine bar.

  • Lumière

    Lumière in Regency Cheltenham serves Michelin-starred seasonal tasting menus drawing on produce from the owners' smallholding. The intimate townhouse restaurant combines classical technique with playful dishes and holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for its extensive wine list.

  • Le Champignon Sauvage

    Le Champignon Sauvage on Suffolk Road is an independent Michelin-starred restaurant run by David and Helen Everitt-Matthias. Seasonal French cooking accompanies an extensive, sommelier-led wine list, with tasting menus, à la carte and set menus available.

  • The Grape Escape

    The Grape Escape on Regent Street serves cheese and charcuterie alongside over 20 wines by the glass and 120+ by the bottle. The owners guide interactive wine flights, and the wine bar holds World's Best Wine Lists Awards recognition.

  • Prithvi

    Prithvi on Bath Road serves modern Indian fine dining through tasting menus and à la carte dishes, reworking classic flavours. Its extensive wine list accompanies a meal divided between an upstairs drinks lounge and the dining room below.

Dining in Broadway, Castle Combe and Stow-on-the-Wold

These villages bring open-kitchen tasting menus, country-house fine dining and charcoal-grilled seafood to the destination. Wine programmes include sommelier-led lists and a Wine Spectator award-winning selection.

  • MO

    MO in Broadway has 12 seats around an open kitchen, where chefs prepare and explain an 8-course modern European tasting menu. Its extensive, wine list is sommelier-led, and the restaurant holds Michelin Plate recognition.

  • Bybrook

    Bybrook in Castle Combe serves Michelin-starred modern British cooking in a manor house hotel surrounded by formal gardens. Tasting menus and à la carte dining accompany an extensive, sommelier-led wine list, with oak panelling and open fires in the setting.

  • Castle Inn

    Castle Inn in Castle Combe is a historic gastropub with Michelin Plate recognition and a wine list. Its à la carte cooking includes seasonal game, blackboard daily specials and pub classics in a cosy village setting.

  • The Old Butchers

    The Old Butchers in Stow-on-the-Wold centres its modern British cooking on charcoal-grilled seafood and steaks. The family-run restaurant occupies a former butcher's shop and has an extensive wine list holding a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.

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Which neighbourhoods have distinctive wine lists in Bath & Cotswolds?

Chapel Row, Bath city centre, Regent Street and Suffolk Road have distinctive wine programmes. Corkage on Chapel Row offers Eurocentric and skin-contact wines; Beckford Bottle Shop in Bath city centre leans towards French and Italian producers. The Grape Escape on Regent Street offers guided flights, while Le Champignon Sauvage on Suffolk Road has an extensive, sommelier-led list.

How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in the guide for this destination?

Our guide counts 4 Michelin-starred restaurants in Bath & Cotswolds, with 4 stars in total across the destination's cities. The starred restaurants are Olive Tree, Lumière, Le Champignon Sauvage and Bybrook, with modern British, seasonal and classic French fine dining among their styles.

Where can I find tasting menus?

Olive Tree, Menu Gordon Jones, wilks, Lumière and MO all serve tasting menus. Olive Tree has tableside course explanations, Menu Gordon Jones uses a daily-changing surprise format, and wilks has an intimate French-led approach. Lumière draws on produce from the owners' smallholding, while MO places guests around an open kitchen.

Which places hold Wine Spectator awards?

Lumière and The Old Butchers hold Wine Spectator awards. Lumière in Regency Cheltenham has the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence alongside seasonal tasting menus. The Old Butchers in Stow-on-the-Wold holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and serves charcoal-grilled seafood and steaks.

By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards

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Le Champignon Sauvage

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Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Le Champignon Sauvage

On a quiet residential street in Cheltenham's Montpellier district, Le Champignon Sauvage has held a Michelin star since 1987 and a La Liste ranking through 2025–26, making it among the more consistently decorated restaurants outside London. David and Helen Everitt-Matthias have spent four decades refining an Anglo-French repertoire that balances classical technique with genuinely daring combinations, backed by a wine list priced well below comparable starred venues.

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Where to eat in Bath & Cotswolds

Selected entries from the current guide for Bath & Cotswolds.

Le Champignon Sauvage restaurant in Cheltenham

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Le Champignon Sauvage

On a quiet residential street in Cheltenham's Montpellier district, Le Champignon Sauvage has held a Michelin star since 1987 and a La Liste ranking through 2025–26, making it among the more consistently decorated restaurants outside London. David and Helen Everitt-Matthias have spent four decades refining an Anglo-French repertoire that balances classical technique with genuinely daring combinations, backed by a wine list priced well below comparable starred venues.

Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Upstairs at Landrace restaurant in Bath

Bath, United Kingdom

Upstairs at Landrace

Above one of Bath's most respected artisan bakeries on Walcot Street, this Michelin Plate-recognised small-plates bistro turns locally sourced British produce into seasonal sharing dishes with real confidence. The setting is unpretentious, stone walls, scruffy wood floors, natural wine on the list, and the cooking matches that register: direct, produce-led, and carefully executed. A ££ price point makes it one of the stronger-value dining propositions in the city.

Bath, United Kingdom
The Grape Escape restaurant in Cheltenham

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

The Grape Escape

The Grape Escape on Regent Street holds the distinction of a World of Fine Wine Awards Global Winner for Europe alongside a 3-Star Accreditation, placing it among a small group of wine-focused venues on the UK's regional circuit that operate at international recognition level. For Cheltenham, a town that has quietly built a serious dining and drinking culture, this is the address that carries particularly credible wine credentials in the city.

Cheltenham, United Kingdom
The Old Butchers restaurant in Stow-on-the-Wold

Stow-on-the-Wold, United Kingdom

The Old Butchers

A Michelin Plate holder for consecutive years, The Old Butchers has anchored Stow-on-the-Wold's dining scene for over two decades under the Robinson family. Peter Robinson's kitchen centres on a charcoal grill and confident seafood work, Cornish scallops, Dover sole meunière, in a quirkily decorated former butcher's shop. At the ££ price point, it sits well above the Cotswolds pub-lunch bracket without reaching into destination-tasting territory.

Stow-on-the-Wold, United Kingdom
Beckford Canteen restaurant in Bath

Bath, United Kingdom

Beckford Canteen

A 2025 Michelin Plate recipient occupying a converted Georgian greenhouse on Bartlett Street, Beckford Canteen operates at the accessible end of Bath's serious dining tier with a concise all-day menu built around quality produce and restrained technique. Window counter seats are reserved for walk-ins, and the sister Beckford Bottle Shop arrangement makes this one of the city's more intelligent corkage setups. Rated 4.8 on Google across 228 reviews.

Bath, United Kingdom

Bath & Cotswolds

Where to stay in Bath & Cotswolds

Selected entries from the current guide for Bath & Cotswolds.

Malmaison Cheltenham hotel in Cheltenham

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Malmaison Cheltenham

A Michelin Selected hotel on Bayshill Road in Cheltenham's Montpellier quarter, Malmaison occupies a converted Regency building that places it inside the town's most architecturally coherent neighbourhood. The brand's signature approach to service, direct, personality-led, and deliberately informal, reads differently here than in its city-centre counterparts, measured against a local market that has grown noticeably more competitive in recent years.

Cheltenham, United Kingdom
No. 15 Bath by GuestHouse hotel in Bath

Bath, United Kingdom

No. 15 Bath by GuestHouse

A Michelin Selected townhouse hotel on Great Pulteney Street, No. 15 Bath by GuestHouse occupies one of Bath's most architecturally significant Georgian addresses. Part of the GuestHouse collection, it pitches itself toward guests who want close access to the city's historic core without the formality of Bath's grand-hotel tier. The property draws repeat visitors with a service model built around ease and familiarity rather than ceremony.

Bath, United Kingdom
The Lygon Arms hotel in Broadway

Broadway, United Kingdom

The Lygon Arms

One of the Cotswolds' oldest coaching inns, The Lygon Arms on Broadway's High Street carries nearly five centuries of continuous hospitality inside a honey-stone facade that defines the village's architectural character. Michelin Selected in 2025, it occupies a different tier from Broadway's smaller boutique properties, trading intimacy for historical weight and the sense of a building that has genuinely accumulated its atmosphere rather than designed it.

Broadway, United Kingdom

Bath & Cotswolds

Where to go for a drink in Bath & Cotswolds

Selected entries from the current guide for Bath & Cotswolds.

The Grape Escape restaurant in Cheltenham

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

The Grape Escape

The Grape Escape on Regent Street holds the distinction of a World of Fine Wine Awards Global Winner for Europe alongside a 3-Star Accreditation, placing it among a small group of wine-focused venues on the UK's regional circuit that operate at international recognition level. For Cheltenham, a town that has quietly built a serious dining and drinking culture, this is the address that carries particularly credible wine credentials in the city.

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Bath & Cotswolds

Which wineries to visit in Bath & Cotswolds

Selected entries from the current guide for Bath & Cotswolds.

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