Ebrington is one of those villages that feels like it hasn't changed in centuries, and the pub on its green is every bit as good as the setting deserves. Chef-led cooking, proper fires, five rooms if you're bringing friends who need somewhere to stay.
There are plenty of good pubs in this part of the Cotswolds, but the Ebrington Arms sits in a category of its own. It occupies a honey-stone building on the village green at Ebrington, a quiet hamlet just south of Chipping Campden, and the kitchen takes the whole thing seriously without ever feeling stiff. The menu changes with the seasons, built around proper country ingredients: game in autumn, lamb in spring, vegetables that taste like they were pulled from the ground that morning. In winter there are open fires and low beams; in summer a terrace garden where you can sit with a glass of something cold and listen to absolutely nothing.
It's about forty minutes from Well Cottage, which makes it a lovely evening out rather than a quick weeknight supper. Five rooms above the pub mean you could also send visiting family or friends here for a night. The awards speak for themselves (it has collected quite a few over the years), but really it's the kind of place you remember because the welcome was warm, the food was genuinely good, and you drove home through dark lanes feeling like the evening had been exactly right.
“Order whatever the kitchen is most excited about that day. You won't be disappointed.”
All of this on the doorstep, and your own thatched cottage to come home to. Sleeps seven, less than a mile from Soho Farmhouse.