Five Arrows Restaurant

Oxford & the Cotswolds


Tucked inside a coaching inn that’s now an upmarket hotel, Five Arrows delivers carefully concocted modern British dishes in a cosy yet graceful dining room filled with embroidered chairs and mirrors. Seasonal delights might include pea-and-mint soup, roasted guinea fowl and beetroot and red onion tart.


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