The best restaurants in Charlbury and Finstock West Oxfordshire South East

Went here yesterday for lunch with two cousins who were visiting the area. We live in Birmingham, so it was an easy run down to Finstock for us. What a wonderful pub. We arrived there rather earlier (our table was booked for 1 pm), but "mein host" allowed us to sit by the roaring fire, and wait for our cousins - turned out to be an hour, but he didn't have a problem with that. We also had a delicious decaf coffee while we were waiting. He was so very friendly and made us feel very comfortable and at home. Our cousins arrived and we headed over to our table, and were greeted very warmly by a very friendly lady who asked us if we wanted drinks, she gave us menus and then told us all about the dishes on the specials menu. My husband had the steak, I had the pan fried whole plaice, one cousin had the hake steak (there was only one left!) and our other cousin had fish and chips. Two of us asked for no potatoes but extra veg, which was no problem at all! All our four meals were absolutely delicious and my whole pan fried plaice, in particular was absolutely superb - perfectly cooked and came with a large salad and some sugar snaps! None of us had dessert, but had coffees, which were excellent. We are so happy that we found this little Cotswolds gem (my husband and I had been out for a country walk beforehand (the route started from across the road to the pub) and it was a lovely place to meet up with our cousins! We were chatting for s uch a long time that the lady front of house probably had to remind us that they needed to prepare for a kiddies' event being held there in the afternoon! Highly recommended and we will definitely be back!

Absolutely delicious!!, great little place. Staff was soo sweet and so many things to choose from weather it’s cabinet food to menu, so excited to try out more of it !

A really great place, lovely rea and coffee ☕️. Food always looks amazing but I do object to having to pay more just to eat in as opposed to raking away. Staff always nice and very helpful.

Best pub in chipping Norton highly recommend Brilliant bar staff and service they had edzactly what I was looking for. Looking for a meal in the Cotswolds come to bitter and twisted.

Cozy interior with private feeling table. Best fries we had in the Cotswolds. Kids enjoyed their burgers - grateful for a kids menu! Mains were all "heavier" options, so I chose soup and side salad. Celeriac soup was nice.

A gorgeous village pub, turned into a money making eatery. Absolutely packed, so my review will make no difference to their profits. However, for those who would feel ripped off for paying £26 for the tiniest pork chop with a dollop of apple sauce (literally nothing else on the plate), then please avoid. The tiny pork chop was cooked really well and was delicious, but £26? No, no, no! We’ll leave this one for the customers who have more money than sense. Service was pleasant and the tiny chop was tasty, but I’ll cook my own next time and give the monetary difference to charity 😊

Had a takeaway whilst staying at a local campsite and the bhajis were lovy but my curry, a malaya was bland and my husbands curry was so oily, the pilau rice was just wet boiled rice with the odd bit of colour. Not at all worth the money we paid