The best restaurants serving British food in Upton St Leonards Stroud South West

When heading south on the M5, Gloucester is always my preferred stop. Southbound is great - brilliant dog walk and outside area. This year we were even treated to carol singers whilst we ate. Toilets immaculate. Prices are high, but you normally get good quality. The gluten free selection is lacking. The one hot meal we could get didn’t taste that great. Kids eating for £1 was helpful though. Since our last visit in 2023, prices have dramatically increased in farm shop. We live in the countryside close to a farm shop so are used to their “bespoke products and pricing”, however £5.25 for a sausage roll is a tad ridiculous. My pie and chips was £9.40. The pie was delicious but the chips well, lacked quantity for over £3 Stopping northbound today, and I was just disappointed. Toilets weren’t clean, and they didn’t have the gluten free option in the hot selection. The cold salads were an option but with nothing to go with it, can’t do that as a meal and the price was overpriced for a salad! Once again, northbound let southbound down. 5 stars for south, -2 for north!

We enjoyed our Anniversary stay and meal at Hatton Court Hotel. All staff were polite, friendly and very efficient ensuring we had an enjoyable evening. The surroundings, atmosphere and ambiance were very pleasant. The menu had an excellent selection of food and wines to choose from, I enjoyed the crispy salt & pepper squid but in my opinion, after being served my ‘Bouillabaisse’ (fish stew!) I was underwhelmed, the lobster bisque was lacking flavour and missing the mussels (I didn’t initially realise there were none) the Sea Bass was very nice, but I did put in a late order of fries which arrived in no time at all. On the other hand my wife really enjoyed the Arancini, followed by Braised pulled beef feather blade. The bottle of Italian wine was very nice and paired well with the fish. We would not hesitate to eat here again, but my choice of mains would certainly be different.