Wild Thyme

Top choice in The Cotswolds


This little 'restaurant with rooms' thrills palates with top-notch creative dishes packed with flavour, such as asparagus and goat's cheese risotto or steamed Cornish turbot with Japanese pickles. The desserts – from apple crumble to chocolate fondant – are nothing short of sublime. Hidden upstairs are three brilliantly cosy pastel-painted rooms.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby The Cotswolds attractions

1. Chipping Norton Museum

0.05 MILES

Squeezed into the upper floor of a little house facing the imposing columns of the town hall, Chipping Norton’s volunteer-run museum is a small-scale and…

2. St Mary's Church

0.17 MILES

A classic Cotswold wool church, St Mary's has a magnificent Perpendicular nave and clerestory, several alabaster tombs and fluted, diamond-shaped pillars…

3. Bliss Tweed Mill

0.57 MILES

Chipping Norton's most striking landmark, the 1872 Bliss Tweed Mill dominates its western outskirts. Looking much more like a stately home than a factory,…

4. Rollright Stones

2.59 MILES

Linked by a footpath through open fields, the ancient Rollright Stones stand to either side of an unnamed road 4 miles north of Chipping Norton. The most…

5. Chastleton House

4.19 MILES

Four miles southeast of Moreton-in-Marsh, signposted off the A44 halfway to Chipping Norton, Chastleton is one of England’s finest and most complete…

6. Cotswolds Distillery

5.9 MILES

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7. Cotswold Falconry Centre

8.97 MILES

Home to over 150 birds of prey (owl, vulture, eagle and, of course, falcon), this exciting spot stages displays of the ancient practice of falconry at 11…

8. Batsford Arboretum

9.01 MILES

Created from 1880 onwards by Bertie Mitford (Lord Redesdale), and later briefly home to his famous granddaughters, the Mitford sisters, these exotic 22…