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Fox

Pub Details

Address
Lower Oddington
Gloucestershire
GL56 0UR
Telephone
(01451) 870555
Opening Times
Weekdays
12 - 3, 6 - midnight
Sundays
12 - 4, 6.30 - 11

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Fox, Lower Oddington, Gloucestershire, GL56 0UR – The Good Pub Guide
Pub Details | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Popular dining inn with excellent food and wines, several real ales, and helpful staff

There is a small pubby part by the bar counter in this welcoming, creeper-covered old place and locals do pop in for a pint and a chat, but most customers are here to enjoy the first class food. The simply furnished bar rooms have beams and flagstones, a mix of wooden dining chairs around pine tables, fresh flowers, hunting scene figures above the mantelpiece and a growing number of hunting pictures, a display cabinet with pewter mugs and stone bottles, daily newspapers and an inglenook fireplace. Greene King Abbot, Hook Norton Bitter and Purity Pure Ubu on handpump, and several wines by the glass.The red-walled, elegant dining room has another open fire, dark wood furniture, and candles. Outside, the cottagey garden is pretty and there are lots of white tables and chairs under an awning on the heated terrace. A good eight-mile walk starts from here (though a stroll around the pretty village might be less taxing).

Good Pub Guide Food

Served by neat, uniformed staff, the interesting modern food might include soup, seared scallops with ginger dressing, chicken in a mild curry and apricot mayonnaise, moules marininère, courgette and pesto tagliatelle, steak and kidney pie, pork fillet stuffed with black pudding with a creamy mustard sauce, bass with lemon and dill butter, braised lamb shank with roast garlic and red wine, and puddings like sticky gingerbread pudding and crème brûlée.

Bar food times: 12 - 2.30, 6.30 - 10; 12 - 3.30, 7 - 9.30 Sun

Awards

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Bar

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (27 votes cast)

Reader Comments

Liz Bell

Sunday 06 December 2009 7:06:29 pm

On our recent lunchtime visit to this creeper clad, golden stoned pub in the delightful sleepy Cotswold village of Lower Oddington, we were greeted by our Antipodean host with the words 'have you booked?' This could have been a little disconcerting especially if one only required a drink. As circumstances would have it, we were hungry, and they did manage to accommodate us. Service was prompt and the food delicious (smoked creamy fish pot and gruyere and red onion tart) and reasonably priced. However, maximising the covers they can serve, they have placed 2 tables for two in front of the inglenook which blocks, not only the view of the fire, but also the heat it might give off. Booking is essential and there seems to be no recession here. The car park was packed and most of the lane outside jammed with vehicles.The pub is now given over completely to dining. It would have been impossible to stand at the bar to enjoy a drink. They have extended at the back since our last stay here. Gone the wine merchants, in its place brand new kitchens (there's a surprise) and the old kitchen has been converted into a small dining room used for breakfasts for residents and overflow from the more atmospheric 'bar'. The back room can now used as a private dining room. High standards remain the norm here.

teresac

Tuesday 10 November 2009 5:44:41 pm

Food good, ordered moules which came with lots of delicious soup. HOWEVER, served without bread and we had to ask for it - and got charged extra! Didn't order water but jug appeared on table and only discovered later we were also charged for that! Ungenerous or what?

dtandsue

Tuesday 01 September 2009 2:05:50 pm

True, it is not really a good old pub but, being in the Cotswold area, it serves the area well as it is a bit gastro. . Clean and well furnished, it is recommended

We were with a walking group and they managed to serve all of us in good time

jwtaylor

Sunday 14 June 2009 4:50:10 pm

A very, very good restaurant - although there really is little to fulfil the notion of a 'pub' anymore - to the extent that one wonders if there ought to be a seperate category of restaurants that used to be a pub. Thoroughly recommended for its seasonal cuisine - advisable to book. Not cheap, so it is a shame that there is no seperate lunchtime menu.

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