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Best Restaurants in Lake District

143 restaurants analyzed out of 740 identified · United Kingdom

The Lake District's dining scene has evolved from pub food and cream teas to include some of England's most ambitious cooking - L'Enclume in Cartmel put the region on the culinary map. Each town has its own character, from Kendal's everyday market-town eating to Ambleside's more ambitious restaurants. Prices are moderate overall, with the tourist towns commanding a small premium.

Lake District has 143 analyzed restaurants. Some of the strongest areas for dining are Lakes, Windermere, Ambleside. Top cuisines include Modern British, British pub food, Mediterranean.

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Ambleside


Serious fell-country dining in a small town, with polished British and European menus built for celebrating big days out

Lakes


Cumbrian produce drives the menus here, and the kitchens actually know what to do with it

Kendal


A market town that dresses up well, with proper dining that rivals far larger places

Keswick


One of the Lakes' best spots for a proper post-fell dinner, from relaxed pubs to considered evening menus

Windermere


Lakeside celebrations done properly, with modern British cooking that justifies the splurge

Penrith


Quietly serious about British cooking, with restaurants that take their food seriously without demanding London prices

Cockermouth

Grange-over-Sands


A Morecambe Bay promenade town with unhurried, generous British cooking and long lunches worth planning around

Ulverston

Coniston

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A+2 restaurants A10 restaurants A-38 restaurants B+50 restaurants B23 restaurants B-11 restaurants C+4 restaurants C1 restaurants C-4 restaurants

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budget3 restaurants expensive74 restaurants extremely_expensive6 restaurants moderate42 restaurants very_expensive18 restaurants

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