Lumière
An intimate Cheltenham restaurant serving seasonal, ingredient-led tasting menus, with herbs and produce grown in its own garden.
Opening hours
Lunch Friday and Saturday 12:30pm–1:30pm. Dinner Thursday–Saturday 7pm–8:30pm. Closed Sunday–Wednesday. Confirm current booking times.
Location: Clarence Parade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 3PA
Lumière is the sort of Cheltenham dinner to choose deliberately. Its dining room on Clarence Parade is intimate, and the kitchen builds a seasonal tasting menu around carefully chosen produce, including ingredients grown in its own garden. It suits an evening where the meal is the main event, rather than a quick stop before something else.
How to plan it
Reservations are required, and the diary opens three months ahead. If the date you want is full, the restaurant offers a cancellation list. Tell the team about allergies or dietary requirements when you book: each menu is prepared for the service, so last-minute changes may not be possible. A vegetarian tasting menu is available, but the kitchen says it cannot prepare a menu entirely free of butter, eggs, alliums or vinegar.
Getting there
Clarence Parade sits just off the Promenade, so it is easy to reach on foot from a central Cheltenham stay. Lunch service is on Fridays and Saturdays, with dinner Thursday to Saturday; check the booking diary for the available sitting. This is a grown-up, unhurried choice for a celebration or a long catch-up, not a restaurant to gamble on as a walk-in.