Harden's survey result
Summary
Lady Bamford’s two-decade-old farm shop and café may be “home to the Chipping Norton set” but it’s “delightful” nonetheless, especially “when the weather is pleasant enough to sit out under the brollies in the courtyard and people-watch while having something tasty for lunch”. Popularity doesn’t come cheap, but one reporter found it “very reasonably priced” this year, bucking the usual critiques.
Summary
Lady Bamford (wife of JCB heir, Anthony Bamford) opened this chic farm shop and café near the family’s 1,500 acre Cotswold estate about twenty years ago (and later on, spin offs in London). Fans love it, declaring: “it may have a reputation for being pricey, but the interiors are great and the food is just not as expensive as you might expect, given the exquisite perfection of the place”. Critics can’t get over the lack of value though: “the popularity is undeserved: it is just an out-and-out very expensive tourist trap”.
Summary
Lady Bamford’s Cotswolds headquarters is “an experience worth travelling to” for a gawp at her art-directed farmer’s market cornucopia and a nibble of the ‘mindfully raised’ native breed meat and organic vegetables served in her posh ‘Trough’ café. Though deep in the countryside, expect Chelsea prices.
Summary
Lady Bamford’s “bouji” farm shop is “still doing exactly what it says on the tin” – the “perfect antidote to country pubs”, with its faux-rustic formula of “clean-eating and fresh local produce” consumed amid “posh locals and towny tourists”. Caveat? “We try not to look too closely at the bill as it’s usually extortionate!”
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Restaurant details
Prices
 Drinks |
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|---|---|
| Wine per bottle | £30.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £4.50 |
 Extras |
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|---|---|
| Bread | £0.00 |
| Service | 12.50% |
Opening hours
| Monday | 8 am‑4 pm10 pm |
| Tuesday | 8 am‑4 pm10 pm |
| Wednesday | 8 am‑4 pm, 6 pm‑8:30 pm |
| Thursday | 8 am‑4 pm, 6 pm‑8:30 pm |
| Friday | 8 am‑4 pm, 6 pm‑8:30 pm |
| Saturday | 8 am‑4 pm, 6 pm‑8:30 pm |
| Sunday | 9:30 am‑3:30 pm |
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