Singer songwriter James Blunt was serenaded with his greatest hits by fellow diners when he dropped in at a West Oxfordshire restaurant.

The musician rose to fame in 2004 with his debut album Back to Bedlam, one of the biggest-selling albums of the millennium with the ballad You're Beautiful, once the most played song on the radio. 

The star, who has a home in Ibiza, happily posed for pictures when he visited The Spice Lounge in Burford High Street.

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Owner Sam Al-Samad said: “He came in on Tuesday night with some friends who are regulars.

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“I never know when people are celebrities but one of my members of staff recognised him and said, 'that's James Blunt'.

“People were going up and having pictures taken with him.

“And no, he didn't sing but people were singing his songs on the other tables.

“They all had a great evening.”

Although his music divides opinion Mr Blunt, a former captain of the Life Guards who served in Kosovo, has won over a new generation of fans with his humorous and witty comebacks on Twitter, now known as X.

And he got a warm welcome at the restaurant which last year made the final of the Best Restaurant South East category at the British Curry Awards, considered the ‘Oscars’ of the curry world.