Guidebook for Gloucestershire

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Guidebook for Gloucestershire

Food Scene

Good coffee and bakery goods. The best doughnuts in the world, but you have to be lucky to get one, they sell fast!
27 locals recommend
Baker & Graze
48 Suffolk Rd
27 locals recommend
Good coffee and bakery goods. The best doughnuts in the world, but you have to be lucky to get one, they sell fast!
It is a chain but always busy with a nice atmosphere.
39 locals recommend
Brasserie Blanc
Promenade
39 locals recommend
It is a chain but always busy with a nice atmosphere.
Good restaurant with good pavement tables in the summer. Lively and fun bar downstairs with pool table. Good for cocktails.
30 locals recommend
No. 131
131 Promenade
30 locals recommend
Good restaurant with good pavement tables in the summer. Lively and fun bar downstairs with pool table. Good for cocktails.
Excellent Indian restaurant. Need to book a long way in advance, especially for weekends.
42 locals recommend
Prithvi
38 Evesham Rd
42 locals recommend
Excellent Indian restaurant. Need to book a long way in advance, especially for weekends.
Michelin starred restaurant. Expensive. Booking required.
32 locals recommend
Le Champignon Sauvage
24-28 Suffolk Rd
32 locals recommend
Michelin starred restaurant. Expensive. Booking required.
Very stylish restaurant. The inner area is under the rotunda, therefore very high ceilings with great horse racing pictures. The outer part of the restaurant is very colourful and more cosy. Good food. MUST book.
74 locals recommend
The Ivy Montpellier Brasserie Cheltenham
Montpellier Street
74 locals recommend
Very stylish restaurant. The inner area is under the rotunda, therefore very high ceilings with great horse racing pictures. The outer part of the restaurant is very colourful and more cosy. Good food. MUST book.

Drinks & Nightlife

Good place for cocktails.
14 locals recommend
The Clarence Social
1 Clarence Parade
14 locals recommend
Good place for cocktails.
Always busy, small fun bar.
40 locals recommend
John Gordons - Specialist Spirit Merchant - Wine, Whisky & Gin Bar - Food
11 Montpellier Arcade
40 locals recommend
Always busy, small fun bar.

Parks & Nature

Within walking distance - lovely park with the Pitville Pump Room at the top, boating lake and very good playground. British Military Fitness also hold classes there everyday, have a look at their website.
157 locals recommend
Pittville Park
157 locals recommend
Within walking distance - lovely park with the Pitville Pump Room at the top, boating lake and very good playground. British Military Fitness also hold classes there everyday, have a look at their website.

Arts & Culture

Small, good shop, Tourist Info Centre and interesting exhibits.
62 locals recommend
The Wilson
51 Clarence St
62 locals recommend
Small, good shop, Tourist Info Centre and interesting exhibits.
Town Hall hosts talks, concerts, comedy and is a beautiful building.
71 locals recommend
Cheltenham Town Hall
Imperial Square
71 locals recommend
Town Hall hosts talks, concerts, comedy and is a beautiful building.
Frequently changing programme of plays and musicals.
124 locals recommend
Everyman Theatre
10 Regent St
124 locals recommend
Frequently changing programme of plays and musicals.

Essentials

79 locals recommend
Waitrose & Partners
Edith Walk
79 locals recommend

Entertainment & Activities

Complex with multiplex cinema and the more exclusive Screening Rooms - comfortable seats, small theatres, drinks and food. Bowling Alley, Mini Golf, various restaurants and bars.
55 locals recommend
The Brewery Quarter
Henrietta Street
55 locals recommend
Complex with multiplex cinema and the more exclusive Screening Rooms - comfortable seats, small theatres, drinks and food. Bowling Alley, Mini Golf, various restaurants and bars.
Racing through the winter months with The Festival in March being the highlight of the racing calendar.
88 locals recommend
Cheltenham Race Course station
88 locals recommend
Racing through the winter months with The Festival in March being the highlight of the racing calendar.

Getting Around

Plenty of taxis and buses at the railway station to take you into town.
33 locals recommend
Cheltenham Spa Rail Stn station
33 locals recommend
Plenty of taxis and buses at the railway station to take you into town.