Lockdown dining in The Cotswolds
What’s open in our region?
To help you find your next lockdown takeway, we’ve compiled some excellent articles that list the food and drink businesses who are powering on and serving customers in our region!
As the situation is changing rapidly, social media is the best way to check what you’re favourite eateries are up to and when they’re open.
Find local takeaways and deliveries
How We Can Support our Independent Food & Drink Businesses Right Now
Pershore Patty
***On Facebook, join the ‘Pershore Patty Foodie Group’ to keep up to date with the who’s offering food and drink takeaways/deliveries near you***
All the Cotswold pubs and restaurants offering takeaway and delivery
The Cotswold Gentleman
Independent Gloucestershire restaurants offering takeaway services during Coronavirus crisis
Soglos
Gloucestershire businesses adapt their services
GloucestershireLive
Gloucester:
Open for business – Gloucester’s local businesses need your support
supportgloucester.uk
Cheltenham:
Cheltenham businesses offering delivery services
Cheltenham eateries offering takeaway and delivery
Visitcheltenham.com
Oxford:
Oxford food & drink deliveries and takeaways
Bitten Oxford
Cirencester:
Your favourite local restaurants delivered to your door
Cireneats.com
Find your nearest farm shop
The farm shops that are great supermarket alternatives
GloucestershireLive
Find your nearest farm shop in the UK
Farminguk.com
Our lockdown dining diary
To help with the awareness of which food businesses are operating, here’s a list of who we and our nearest and dearest ordered from or shopped with in lockdown.
W/C 1 June:
- The Stone Barn Takeway – Flame cooked, signature BBQ meals to take away – Upper Windrush, Cheltenham
W/C 25 May:
- The Lavender Bakehouse, Chalford, Stroud – takeaway Afternoon Tea
W/C 18 May:
- Cote at Home (Cote Brasserie) – restaurant quality meal delivery – Cirencester, Cheltenham, Stroud and beyond
- Gloucester Brewery – online beer delivery – online, Gloucester
- Gloucester Sausage Co – Meat – Cheltenham
W/C 11 May:
- Kibou Sushi – takeaway soushi – Cheltenham
- Over Farm – Farmshop, butchers, plants, local produce – Gloucester
- Wild and Brie – pretty grazing boxes and platters – Gloucestershire
W/C 4 May:
- Love Brownies Bakery – letterbox brownie deliveries – online
- Marrows Fruit and Veg – Fruit and veg delivery boxes – online/Stroud
W/C 27 April:
- Hobbs House Bakery – bread making supplies – online/Chipping Sodbury
- The Real Peel Co. – ethical letter box treats (choc orange) – online/The Cotswolds
W/C 20 April:
- The Greenshop – local produce, bread, groceries – Bisley, Stroud
- Primrose Vale Farm Shop – farm produce, groceries, excellent fruit and veg – Cheltenham
W/C 13 April:
- Fat Toni’s deli delivery – Stroud and Cheltenham
W/C 6 April:
- Todenham Manor Farm, online meat and grocery delivery-based in Morton-in-Marsh, but deliver around the county
W/C 30 March:
- Moor Brewery, online beer delivery – from Bristol
- Tubby Toms sauces, rubs, marinades, Gloucestershire – online delivery
- Doughnut Time, London – online delivery (decorate your own doughnut kit)
- The Coconut Tree, Sri Lankan street food, Cheltenham
- Cobble Lane Cured, charcuterie meats – online delivery from London
W/C 23 March:
- The Woozy Pig, BBQ – Gloucestershire food truck and catering
- Maison Chaplais Deli, groceries and a takeaway tea – Cheltenham
- Tiny Rebel brewery beer delivery – from Newport, Wales
- Bisley Farm Shop, fresh veg – Stroud
- Severn and Wye Smokery, fish and groceries – Westbury-on-Severn
- Brewdog homebrew kit, something to keep us busy – Brewdog online
- Rojan Josh, Indian – Cheltenham
- VW Lane Butchers – Bath Road Cheltenham
- Fat Toni’s, Pizza – Cheltenham and Stroud
Helpful hashtags
#eatouttohelpout
#InThisTogetherGlos
#StillOpenInOxfordshire
#StillOpenInWorcestershire
#SupportLocal
#WhatsOpen
#townname (e.g. #Cheltenham or #Stroud)
If you can, like and comment on posts from locals business and share your photos of lockdown dining or post a positive review on Tripadviser, to help other customers find out about the takeaway options in their area.
Food banks
Food banks continue to support many people in our region during this unprecedented time. The best way to continue to support them is to make a monetary donation by searching for them on The Trussell Trust.
Find a food bank near you – trusselltrust.org
“We’re all in this together”.
