Ambleside Tap Yard in South Lakeland

This is a place that nights out are for. Great menu excellent range of drinks, ales, IPAs, Gins, Whisky etc. booking is best so not to be disappointed...

Good value for money. Staff very kind. Dog friendly.

Friendly helpful staff, good food and dog friendly. Will definitely return. Top beers too.

Great for relaxed atmosphere and easy food with family.

Absolutely brilliant meal, staff are welcoming atmosphere was great really enjoyed our night thanks guys would recommend to anyone

Nice to sit outside, superb pizzas and good beer choice. Oh and full of dogs!

Quality can vary depending on the time you visit, first time we visited, the food and service was quick and smooth, a 5 out of 5. Second time we visited, everything that could go wrong went wrong, a 2 out of 5. We waited ages for the drink to arrive but they were both wrong so the waiter had to serve again, then we were served food that was for the other table, then finally our pizza arrived but it was a bit burned.

Was great food all round. The pizza was delicious. Service was great and they went out the way to make sure us and our dog were comfortable.

Great service, cracking dough, tasty DIPS.

Always great food at The Tap Yard. The new burger is awesome ! Service is fantastic !

Amazing food, amazing service from all working and all round great experience

We've love it here. Never had a better pizza anywhere else. Perfect to refuel after a long walk! Special mention to Aaron who made us and our doggies feel super welcome 🐾🍕

Really good food, really good service from Aaron, would highly recommend

Only stopped for a drink seemed a nice place, the food looked good but we didn't eat here. Would cone back though!

Been a few times now! Great service, lovely staff, tasty food and very reasonably prices. Extra shoutout to Aaron for a top service 🍔 100% recommend

Great pizza, great drinks selection, great service (Arron served us)

Very nice little spot in a wonderful village Perfect place to grab a beer and some lunch while navigating a picturesque part of the region

Been here a couple of times now when we stay in Ambleside. Food is always great (especially the pizza). Great selection of beers, really cool décor and friendly staff.

We pre-booked a table to watch the 6N rugby. We were given a warm welcome and excellent seats. Food was great, service fantastic and the atmosphere lots of fun

Nice bar, lovely pizza, lively atmosphere

Great staff , great ambiance, amazing music recently! Robert was fantastic today, Rosana and Iulian are always top class as well, just all round great people!

Nice spot, but the bartender quickly put in the sum to pay and snuck in a 5% service charge just to pour 3 pints. Of course with how quick it was I only realised after I paid he had snuck it in. Cheeky. Did it with my friend who got 1 pint and snuck in a 5% service charge with her as well.

Excellent food. Great staff. Loved the beers

Amazing food, good atmosphere, well priced

had a brilliant trip to the lake district and visited ambleside tap yard. we showed up as a huge group last minute and we were accommodated for so well, despite how much of an inconvenience i'm sure we were! reece our server was brilliant, apparently it was only his second day but he was incredibly attentive as a server and so friendly. the food was great as well, a good selection and great milkshakes!

Unable to call them on the phone - the phone number is just an automated message telling you to visit their website or email them. Would recommend being able to speak to a human!

0 for service, refuse a table as we had toddlers and prams - unwelcoming and rude - avoid for families

First visit to this bar and certainly wouldn't rush back. Tempted in hoping to find some lovely real ales (as its supposed to be a"tap bar"!) to sample and our arrival was greeted with as much welcome as you'd expect from the gestapo! Got told off for omitting to wait to be served. Naughty us! Whole place lacked atmosphere. Very disappointing. Back to the fabulous Unicorn for us

Great experience. Staff are so amazing. Fast service. Excellent ales and pizzas. Good value too.

Excellent pizzas, Burgers, fries and craft beers. Look out for the meals deals which makes it even better value. Give it a try, you may want to book though. Another visit and still the same quality of food and service. Great place.

We popped in to watch rugby and eat. We were so glad we did. The staff couldn't have done any more for us and the food, OMG ... the food was unbelievable! So much, so good, so quick, so wow! We were so glad we got a table (I'll definitely book next time ) . Thank you guys.

Lovely atmosphere, with polite and friendly staff, and the food was delicious!

Had pizza here a few times now and have enjoyed it. The service wasn't bad, but staff didn't seem that invested in making customers feel welcome. The lack of soft furnishings make it feel like an echoing hall with their dance music playing in the background.

Lovely food and a nicely decorated place. There was a large TV on the wall that was playing a random YouTube video on repeat that was distracting from the rest of the environment but otherwise lovely establishment and would happily go again! We were a large group and they were very accommodating.

My partner and I went here for hot drinks today, we were told we may have to wait a while, and staff tried ushering us to empty tables near the entrance, where we had just come in. My partner then decided to have a pinot wine instead because of the wait for hot drinks, they replied that they didn't have any. The whole restaurant was practically empty, so I found it unbelievable when we were told that we would have to wait a while for hot drinks, then told that there was no pinot wine and we were both made to feel most unwelcome by trying to usher us both in to empty tables near the entrance in a half empty restaurant, we didn't sit down we decided to leave. Not a very good first time impression, it was our first time in Ambleside, this was the first place we went to, being this restaurant & it will definitely be the last time, if we ever go back to Ambleside again, terrible customer service, terrible.

Repeatedly get orders wrong on multiple visits. Poor service. Good food - but a shame we repeatedly don’t eat at the same time. No offers of compensation and service charge remains - also challenged why we do not want to pay the service charge!

Our party of 8 occupied a table reserved at 7:30. We elected to leave at 7:20 as a courtesy to staff and the incoming patrons. One of our party had a small amount of drink to finish but the waitress took the glass away and refused to give it back - ‘sorry, you have no table now lovely’

Great food at a good price. Beer was an okay price. Hate the fact they put a service charge on without telling you. I would normal tip more than the 5% but it feels cheeky purposely charging customers more when they have to walk to the bar to order. Edit to the current review: We visited this place again as the food is lovely. This time we had table service however the order was wrong meaning 1 of the members got their food after the rest had finished. Despite this a service charge was still applied. When paying, we asked for this to be removed and was rudely questioned as to why! They said we asked for all food to be brought out at the same time acting as though they knew nothing about the incorrect order (we witnessed the waitress telling the one how took our order it was incorrect). At no point was there apologise for the error and did not offer any form of compensation for the disruption. Also, unlike previous visits, we had to sit there in our coats as the building was cold. Due to 2 negative visit I will not be returning to this venue.

We just went in for a drink, nice atmosphere, good service. Food looked good! We will revisit next month for food.

Went in with my wife and our dog. Food was delicious and very very filling. The portions big. The setting really nice and the service from Mario and team was friendly and helpful. Will be back

Great Pizza, burgers and hotdogs.

Amazing pizza, really good fries, great beer and staff are friendly. We visited for our family New Year’s Eve meal. We will come here again.

I really enjoyable visit food and service was very good nice atmosphere.

Good little pub,restaurant, dog friendly very clean and very busy so my advice is to book a table .

Very busy when we arrived but staff soon cleared a table for us. Good choice of drinks. Food was very good and staff very friendly. Dog friendly too. Very popular venue.

Food was pretty goody, but seating was bizarre. Just know that even if you're told that there's no more tables for the evening, you might want to just wait a little before leaving. We sat by the door, so we saw everyone coming in and out. There were multiple times when a couple would come in, get told that there was no seating left for the night and leave, and then not 5 minutes later a table would open up because other customers would leave.

Food really good, very unwelcoming service...large group and they couldn't accommodate. Staff handled well but left a number of the group unable to get a drink for no reason.

We had a wonderful lunch. The atmosphere was great even though it was a cold day. Staff were very friendly and helpful.

Inedible fires - overdone, hard and cold. Burned pizza - tried to explain it comes this way as it’s wood fired 🤔. Had to move tables when a drink on the floor above soaked me and my food - got moved to a table with a broken foot and piece of card to jam under it - which was just lent against and radiator and we were told it’s not broken. People on tables within entrance needing to sit in coats due to the draft !! Very defensive management when dealing with valid complaints.

Poor customer service; food variable in quality. I don't recommend.

This is a must do for anyone in Ambleside, it offers great range and beers and the food looks good pizza and burgers...

Pizza was nice, garlic bread and focaccia were disgusting. Save your time and look elsewhere as it want impressive at all. Staff didn’t really seem to care that the food wasn’t great and tried a lot of excuses to make up for it. Not impressed for the price.

fantastic food here,thoroughly enjoyed my pizza, the ullswater blonde ale was a pleasent beer to drink. happy to come back here again

We came here after a hike, everything was perfect. They're home made IPA Chaff Session, the samali pizza and to finish off a black coffee. Was perfect, including the music in the background.

Great hotdogs (huge!) and beer. Splish Splash was a particularly good pint. Friendly service and a really nice atmosphere. It was understandably rammed, as it was Christmas Lights switch on night, and we'd not booked, but we were offered the only table available. It was by the front door, which unfortunately didn't stay fully closed, so it was pretty chilly and drafty. It soon became apparent that the people there before quickly moved to the next table that was available, as their food came to our table initially. Other than that, definitely recommend, just don't sit by the door!

Delicious food, friendly staff and really good atmosphere. We are definitely going again when we are near by.

Great settings, beer was good. Service was slow and food was okay. 1 of two burgers arrived burnt but promptly replaced.

Visited for a few drinks on Saturday. They had a Excellent choice of drinks, the Guinness was particularly on form.

Didn't eat here but tried some lovely real ales on more than just one occasion,

Our family of 4 went here today about 3ish, place was busy but managed to get sat straight away. My husband and son had a burger and chips and garlic bread to share, and me and my daughter both had pizzas and dirty chicken fries to share; food was lovely, tasty and piping hot. Service was fast and delivery of food to our table was about 20 mins, a lovely amount of time to have a chat and get settled. Atmosphere was really nice to, the only tiny down side was the table was small to fit our plates but to be honest that's being super critical... We would be back 100% on our next visit. Thank you all 🙂

Great place for food, really tasty and reasonable, me and my wife shared the pollo pizza and dirty fires. Nice pint of pravha to. Bands play on occasion as well.

Good service, but it should be noted that tax is added on separately at the end. Very unusual for UK and therefore may take some by surprise

Great! Delicious! Good portions, friendly staff, great variety of drinks and food!

Busy place, we were told there was a wait for the food, but it was worth it. Good buzz around the place. Friendly staff.

Food was absolutely delicious. Live in the area and haven’t had food as good as that in a long time. ordered the mushroom and ham pizza and it was devine. definitely will be back

Great food, great service, Asha (hope I've spelt her name right!) was really helpful and great with the kids! Would highly recommend.

So good we went two nights in a row.

Table service didn't eat this time but definitely had food envy 😋

Really good value for money. Chicken was cooked really well in the burgers which came with lots of fries. Good selection of local ales and IPAs on tap. Cool interior, small shame the tv inside is showing reals of the Caribbean rather than images of the surrounding fells or footage of the local beer being brewed.

I'm sure the food was good, but I couldn't taste it for the incredible amount of salt put on it, the fries turned out to be the saltiest I've EVER had and actually made my mouth burn, thank god I ordered a pint of larger.

Really dissapointing. My husbands pizza was badly burnt on the bottom. My lamb burger was incredibly dry and tasted like it had been cooked and reheated. I will say the sweet potato fries were excellent and my husband enjoyed the beer. Service wasnt great, waitress abrupt. I wouldn't return.

Popped in today having just arrived in Ambleside. The pub was warm and the staff were friendly and efficient. We had pizzas and they were pretty large and really delicious. We would definitely recommend.

Brilliant food but the staff were even better.

Allows dogs Lovely food Nice staff We will be visiting again

Great place. Atmosphere 100%. Staff 100% food 100%. Highly recommend

Really good food and great staff

Stopped off for a very late lunch after some walking around Windermere and had worked up quite an appetite. Unfortunately the food was very poor with the pizza very burned and the bugger my wife had was as dry as a bone.

Just ok. Little things matter, I had just popped in after a hike and ordered a beer to sit outside. Finish serving one customer before you move to the next as I had to ask the next customer to move so I could grab my beer as you pay on the side. Also I’m all for tipping, but I’m not eating a meal or getting service to my table so not sure why it’s there as an option with the bar staff checking you have tipped. Just ok, I didn’t eat here so can’t comment

Only had a couple of beers here. They have their own (craft) beer. A very good IPA and excellent hazy IPA. Reliable service and not to expensive.

Service and atmosphere was great, however we both had burgers and found that they were bland despite the sauces on them. The streaky bacon wasn’t cooked enough so was chewy and stringy making it difficult to eat. Presentation was great but the flavours just weren’t there sadly.

The place was ok. We sat outside. Ordered a staropromen and they didn't have any. Opted instead for a homebrew Helles which was very nice. We went to the bar to order and got sent away stating that it was table service only. A bit of a faff to be honest. I can understand people who want to order food having table service but why send us away from the bar when we were already there? It would have been easier just to serve us. I think this was probably adopted during COVID and kept in place. Makes more sense in Italy, not in England. The pizza looked amazing though.

Tasty wood fired chicken pizzas & drinks, great vibe, excellent service

Food was delicious but staff was rude and was made to feel uncomfortable when asked for anything

Great weekend here at the 🍺 festival. Last weekend.

Went during the Ambleside festival and it was great fun! Large selection of craft beers and ciders.

Lovely little place, pizzas are amazing

We were greeted warmly on arrival and seated immediately. The couple of wait staff we encountered were friendly, helpful and attentive. The menu is great too it was so hard to choose what to have! In the end it was burgers all around - I highly recommend the 'Juicy Lucifer'. The orders were all correct including customisations, food came out hot and looking great. For what you get, the value is really good too. Definitely worth a stop here if you're visiting Ambleside, highly recommend - but make sure you go hungry.

Stopped here a few times now. Busy but worth the wait for a seat. Great service and a good atmosphere. Food is good, I can recommend the pizzas and the beers and stouts. Will definitely be back.

Good food, nice beer and great service. Glad we made a reservation in advance.

Had a good meal here yesterday. Didn’t book as was a last minute find and got a table straight away. Service was very good. The food was also good but the burger was a bit too chargrilled for my liking though and I had to leave a small bit of my burger as was basically burnt through. I also didn’t eat the bun as that was also chargrilled way too much. But I would definitely recommend overall and would happily go back again.

Just went in for a drink very nice place busy aswell .

Lovely atmosphere at the Tap Yard - service staff friendly, helpful and knowledgeable about the menu and food preparations. Food portions were big and great choice of drinks too. Downside - more vegetarian and vegan options please

Didn't mark the food as we didn't eat but the service and atmosphere as we sat and had a drink was very nice

Stopped for some lunch and had the Korean burger. Best burger I've ever had. Food was served fast which was useful as we caught the return ferry. Friendly staff. Unexpected gem!

I wondered why they took payment before they served the food. Then I found out. Burnt and mostly inedible burger. Chips ok. Beer was called IPA but, in that modern way, definitely wasn't. I think this is more my problem than theirs. Much better places to eat in Ambleside.

Food was lovely and the service was brilliant would definitely go again☺️

Amazing pizza, we actually couldn’t believe how good the pizza was! The pub is very dog friendly and we felt very comfortable with our dog and made to feel very welcome. We will definitely visit again next time we are in the lakes!

We sat outside and had a generous slice of pizza and a coffee. Excellent service and our dogs got some great treats.

We had pizza and a beer, and let me tell you, as an Italian living in the UK for 25 years this was the best pizza I have ever had in the UK. The dough was exactly as I was expecting, generous toppings and delicious flavours. They only add a 5% service charge, which at least coming from London is very little. Please add a tip as they are fast, polite and kind, and they deserve it.

From the outset, the service from our waiter Robert, was first rate - polite, efficient and friendly. The pizza was first class and very, very good - the best we've had for a long time. Everything was clean, well presented and professional. I would again emphasise that Robert is a credit to the company - all in all.......Highly recommended on all counts.