Guiting Power is a quiet village that most visitors drive straight past, which is partly why we like it. The Cotswold Guy sits on its little high street: part farm shop, part café, entirely the work of someone who genuinely cares about good ingredients.
The man behind The Cotswold Guy came to it from private cheffing, and you can tell. This is not a farm shop that happens to serve coffee; it is a place built around flavour, with shelves stocked from the farms and producers he's spent years getting to know. The breakfast and lunch menus are short, seasonal, and consistently good. Sausage rolls that actually taste of pork. Soups made from whatever the fields have just given up. Cakes that sell out before lunch because word gets around in a village this small. Open every day, Sunday through Saturday, so there is never a reason not to stop in.
It is also the sort of place where you go in for a loaf of bread and come out with a bag full of chutney, local cheese, and something you didn't know you needed. The drive from the cottage takes about twenty minutes through some of the loveliest Cotswold lanes you'll find, the kind lined with dry stone walls and not much else. Pair it with a walk around Guiting Power itself, or carry on to the Windrush valley if the weather is kind. Either way, The Cotswold Guy is the sort of find that makes you feel like you know the area a little better than most.
“The sausage rolls alone are worth the drive. We always leave with far more than we planned to buy.”
All of this on the doorstep, and your own thatched cottage to come home to. Sleeps seven, less than a mile from Soho Farmhouse.