Waters Edge Restaurant in Lancaster

Had a lovely family meal here last night. The staff were welcoming, friendly and very helpful. All the meals were well presented and delicious. Nice bar area to sit and chat. Highly recommend.

£10 for a full English breakfast with hardly anything on the plate, one sausage, one mushroom, a teaspoon of beans and two slices of bacon, you pay extra for toast. The wait was 40 minutes.

We booked our table, received a reminder text and was seated straight away when we arrived. Staff were very friendly and great interacting with our children. Girls had the chicken nuggets and pasta and loved it. Husband had the burger and said it was tasty. I had the calamari and fries from the small portions meal and it was the perfect size. Lovely meal with my family

Service was great, food was ok, nothing wrong but fish was a bit tasteless and the menu limited

The food was great service was spot on. The atmosphere was cozy and warm

Solid pub food no issues with the food. Good flavours . Spanish farmhouse style and a fair range of foods to pick from. Nice meal for a family of 4

Went for drinks only, lovely sunny viewes, polite staff, very relaxing location.

What an amazing night we spent at the Waters Edge Casino Night. Thank you to Jamie and his team for a fabulous event with drinks on arrival and delicious canapés. It was lovely that everyone attending made a great effort for the night, the room was full of great conversations, laughter and excitement. We look forward to the next event.

Great for a casual drink and decent pub food excellent service and well worth a visit very accomodating dog friendly and amazing service staff work very hard especially Will

Was on a course had to take a pack lunch as kitchen not open staff friendly and helpful but lots of maintenance needed conner covers of tracking falling tables set for dinner just little attention to detail of what room is being used for. Nice views out to lake and decor in bar area

Very let down. Staying on site in a children’s hospice lodge with our family, noted on the restaurant facebook yesterday the advertisement for take away pizzas. So, 6.30 today I called in to order 3 pizzas to pick up at 7.30. I was told “sorry we can’t do that as we are too busy”. Apparently they only do take away pizza when they are quiet….not that anywhere says that. Honestly the amount of caveats, proviso’s around this place (see other reviews) make it either a case of it being run so close to the wind that they cannot staff it accordingly or a lack of competence from the management. Don’t bother.

Unexpected trip here but had a lovely meal, friendly staff, clean & good service. Six of us, 3 adults & 3 teens all booked in by Hoseasons and no complaints at all about any of it. One of our party fancied the kids meals more than main meals but no problem at all, they just made a bigger portion & looked great. Clean plates all round. Wouldn’t usually drop in in somewhere like this on a holiday park but very pleased we did. Big thank you to Peter & the staff for looking after us.

Well, where do we start? We came down from our lodge without a booking, as it happened the restaurant was fully booked. After asking if they could possibly squeeze us in, they moved a few things around and managed to get us a table! We have an autistic child which can be challenging for us all and can be anxious for us before we even arrive but all the staff made us feel at ease from the beginning, we even had to vacate the table we were on as our autistic child was not wanting to be inside the restaurant environment. Despite not serving food to outside tables they made and exception without hesitation and made every effort to accommodate us whichever way they could which felt amazing for us after previous experiences elsewhere. Anyway, let’s get to the food, two adults got a large fish and chips, absolutely 10/10 easily! Two children shared a ham and pineapple pizza which was fantastic and there was nothing left after they’d finished. And our other child had chicken nuggets and chips which he ate all of, fantastic food!.. overall 10/10 would go there time after time, staff are amazing and go above and beyond, amazing! We will return.

Food was average at best, but very over priced (£17 chicken burger and fries which came with a slice of tomato and piece of lettuce, and kids chicken nuggets were not nice at all). Atmosphere was lacking, as the radio was being played which included listening to radio adverts. Staff were friendly and service was good. The location is nice, but the food needs a lot of work

Very nice place relaxing and dog friendly. Food excellent.

Ordered the steak and chips ,and that was all you got ,No vegetables AT ALL ..My wife's steak was full of grissle , with frozen chips.not good at all. WILL the waiter was very helpful,and took our complaint to the chef, he got a refund on my wife's meal ,and a free drink. We couldn't fault WILL, He couldn't do too much for us . HE Gets 10 stars

Very good medium steak and very good service

My wife took her friend today to celebrate a special birthday my wife's friend is actually quite ill and when she explained this to the staff nothing was too much for them went down before she picked her friend up just to check everything was OK the young girl and manager that were on shift were so nice a credit to your business the manager let me choose what ever table she wanted.when we arrived my friend was so touched that the table was decorated she cried and everything service food drinks 100% perfect definitely will be back

Lovely place! Very dog friendly.

My family of seven adults, three generations aged 19 to 79, went for lunch. One of us has dietary requirements and another needs to isolate as much as possible at a gathering. The manager arranged a special table for us. It was a beautiful sunny day, with gentle breeze and the table was outside. The menu is broad and interesting. We each ordered something different and every plate was high quality, tasty and ample. The view over the lake added to the pleasure and we shall certainly return to Waters Edge.

Lovely welcoming staff, excellent food, and lovely surroundings. Will visit again.

Nice pub on the lake. Good food and drink. Great views across lakeview

First time at waters edge this week. We absolutely loved the experience. From the food to service. I want to say a special thank you to Will & Sam for making our experience so special. Thank you guys. Special thank you to Jamie as well… He made us feel welcome from the second we walked in

Just popped in for food and drinks. A lovely place with great food and great service 😀

We visited the Waters Edge several times during our recent stay at South Lakeland and as always the restaurant food and experience was great. My 14 year old had a kids meal which was more than enough (truely can't understand a previous review where a 6 year old needed two portions!!!), and I had the braised pork and mashed potato which was done to perfection. We sat by the viewing window (it's NOT a serving hatch as another review incorrectly stated) which gives a small glipse into the kitchen. This shows the restaurant has nothing to hide, if they openly let you see the chefs at work. At least we could see when our meals were ready :-). Overall we've eaten at the Waters Edge a dozen times and continue to go back. The nice thing is Jamie the manager, and all the staff, are so friendly they recognise us now when we walk in, and always make a point to come up for a brief hello and a chat to see how we are. Keep up the good work Waters Edge!

Gammon steak was extremely salty. Was offered something else. But declined. As everyone at the table has finished eating. So I thought they might have taken something off the bill..but no. Food was mediocre at best. Bit of a let down. Wouldn't go back.

After a slight hiccup with our table not being decorated for a 50th birthday, as had been arranged earlier in the week, the staff could not have been more helpful, friendly and professional. Jamie in particular was brilliant at looking after us. We all chose different burgers off the menu and all were delicious. Reasonable price too. We enjoyed it so much we came back for breakfast the next morning. Thank you for helping to make a special birthday get together even better. Highly recommended.

We booked as a large group. Food was amazing and Staff very courteous and understanding even though we were a bit (a lot) of a handful nothing was too much trouble. Thanks so much for having us!

Very poor service and information, arrived 10 mins early, table was empty but told couldn’t order until booking time, half menu was missing, food was very poor..would give it a wide berth and avoid it, no fish, no pizzas?? Not told this until we tried to order it?..definetely won’t be going back😕

A very poor attempt at hospitaly all round. Bad service, bad attitude and terrible food! The childrens pasta was so small my 6 year old had to order 2 portions which we had to pay for in full! Avoid at all costs.

I booked this for a birthday dinner for my partner as we are staying in one of the lodges for a long weekend. The photos of the place looked incredible and well priced which is the main reason why I booked it. The food was okay, wasn’t as great as some of the reviews state, but they had no fish (not too much of an issue but I’ve seen other reviews where they state that they were told there wasn’t certain foods). I ordered the steak, and usually (I’m not a fussy eater) the peppercorn sauce comes on the side in a dish or a small amount on the plate. My steak was absolutely drenched in peppercorn sauce, which I wasn’t aware was going to happen. When I asked (I apologised a lot) if there was anything that could be done (I was willing to pay for another steak) I was just brushed off and told “no not really” then the waiter just walked off and didn’t bother to come and check on us later on, even though he knew I wasn’t too pleased. Luckily my partner swapped plates with me. The food actually looks nothing like the photos, the presentation wasn’t there it was literally just put on plates like you would do at home, which is disappointing. The actual atmosphere of the place was awful, as soon as we walked in I felt on edge, at first we were placed in a table right where the food comes out to be served (it’s a large window) which I wasn’t pleased about, we asked to move to which we were which was good, but I’m not sure why you’d put a table right where food is coming out. I’m not too pleased and breather is my partner, we are going to re-do his birthday meal elsewhere.

We attended as a large group, staff were so kind and attentive nothing was too much trouble. Very generous portions, even the kids meals were substantial and really good quality food. Obliged with all our annoying ammendments and requests, really relaxed atmosphere. We had a 95 year old, a 2 year old and every age between in attendance. Thank you all for having us.

Probably need to optimise the space. But nice place.

We booked a table online at the beginning of the week for the Thursday. Thursday came and I received a curtesy call from the restaurant asking if I still wanted the booking. They told me to arrive about 10 minutes early but if your late we can't guarantee you your table until later. I then received 2 missed calls with no explanation as to why. We got there 15 minutes early and got sat down but felt like an inconvenience. The staff member who took our order said your too early for us to put your order through because you booked for 5 we can only put your order through at 5:15. The atmosphere wasn't great but the food was great a real miss match of standards of service.

Nice place to call in and have a drink

We stayed at a lodge on the South Lakeland Leisure Village for 2 nights and had dinner twice and breakfast once here. The food was fantastic, good portion sizes on all the meals including the kids menu and great value for money. Also the venue was very clean the staff were amazing. All our meals were 10/10 and we also heard a family tell the waitress that the fish and chips were the best they ever had!

Great food and service gym and pool next door....

When the food arrives and it looks better than the promo pictures, you know it's going to taste spectacular too...

Been going to the restaurant for over 7 years and Jaime has finally got the place back to where it should be. Over the last 12 months tables cleaned, staff hard working and food where it should be. They put on a great evening on New Year’s Eve a lot of thought hard work and making sure everyone enjoyed themselves. To compete with other local restaurants/ pubs the opening times for meals needs to be looked at. Well done

Excellent restaurant, superb food,

We had a lovely evening meal. The staff were efficient and friendly without being intrusive. Nice cosy atmosphere on a cold autumn night. The food was excellent and a cut above usual pub fare. Well done Jamie and team. We will be back!

We visited one of our favourite restaurants tonight a great place to visit for a fabulous meal with friends & family. You can always guarantee a warm welcome from the friendly staff and exceptional food from the kitchen. It’s definitely well worth a visit. Also dog are very welcome 🥰

Lovely food, not a massive choice but enough to find something, all homemade and fresh.

On site for weekend and love this bar albeit the drinks are on the dearer side to usual pub prices. Had meal tonight for 6 adults and every meal was perfect and plentiful. Would recommend even though the menu is limited and on dear side. It’s worth it.

Only had cake and coffee but it was lovely and a good price. The staff were really nice. Will definitely go again.

Interesting and tasty main dishes. Unusually a good choice of vegetarian dishes. Children's menu was good too. Portions large so couldn't manage dessert.

Lovely outdoor seating area overlooking the lake. We popped in here for a quick refreshment, while out walking. Friendly, helpful and hardworking staff. Prices were reasonable. A nice and relaxing atmosphere awaits you here

Lovely outdoor seating area overlooking the lake. We only stopped for a quick drink while out walking, but we were pleasantly surprised.

Would be 5* but prices are astronomical. Great food, drinks & venue. Staff are lovely, printed off a menu for me. Great if you are on-site and can walk there & have a drink. There are better value eateries in the vicinity.

We went into the waters edge pub for some food and some drinks. On the morning we were very poorly greeted by a lady behind the bar. We asked for some breakfast menus and was given a dirty look and felt belittled as we were told they don’t sell breakfast with an awful attitude and disrespectful manner? She was extremely rude, snappy and unprofessional. Me and my partner don’t want to come back to the complex due to these awful customer service experiences. When we ordered our drinks she slammed them down on the table. Very abrupt. Very rude. Very unprofessional. (Not rating the food because we were declined it every time🤣)

Pretty limited menu, captured audience reflects the price and lack of choice.

Dined here for two nights on our recent stay on the South Lakeland holiday park. The staff were absolutely brilliant looking after us and our rather large Greyhound by seating us where he could lie down. The food exceeded our expectations with the new menu and considering it was a new menu service was faultless. Both dishes I sampled were excellent the first night the Lamb vooked to perfection and second night the pork, again perfectly cooked . Special mention for a rather good sticky toffee desert. Thank you for two great evenings

Good atmosphere and really cosy, staff were friendly and really helpful. It was my mams birthday and she really enjoyed her meal (wild mushroom rigatoni). The only thing I can think of to improve would be coasters.

A fabulous stay at this lovely campsie.tranquil area with a little stream and rolling hills. Tom was very helpful with any questions we needed answering. We will be back😊

After a long 7 hour drive we went to the water's edge restaurant after booking into our lodge for a nice drink and some food. I approached the barman who looked bemused at my request to order some food to have outside. I was told that they was to busy and had a very busy evening ahead IT WAS 5.30PM AND NOT A SINGLE PERSON WAS EATING FOOD JUST DRINKING so not sure why at such an early time they couldn't cook some very basic pub food as this is what the menu is. ( £18 for fish and chips 🤣) I went to reception to complain and was told this time by a so called bar manager that he was under staffed?? Very poor attitudes and lies. More than happy to discuss with the so called manager again. Langdale lodge number 17

Nice place, good food, nice views

Restaurant last orders was 7pm that seems quite early. Food was nice staff helpful eat outside great views.

Average pub food fried tasteless fries and a burger not special no accompaniments like coleslaw or sales quite lacking for a £17 burger not impressed!

Came in at 5pm to get a pizza and some drinks, we was sat a outside table, and refused service as they said they was fully booked I had a look around the resteraunt and every table has a reserve notice some being 5-5.30 and others at 8pm which doesn’t make sense why they couldn’t serve us, it seemed like they just all wanted to do the least amount of work as possible

We love this place, we are stopping at southlakes for 11 months 😊and West, Jamie, Alys, and Steven have all made the move a lot easier for us especially for my little girl Lily who wants to come here everyday 😊😊

Big, tasty, fulfilling rump steak Sunday lunch, perfectly cooked and sliced, which was a nice touch, washed down with a pint of tangy cider looking over the lovely water. Very very nice.

Staff friendly, helpful and attentive. Food good with a variety of dishes.

We were very lucky to win the Facebook competition for a meal for two. We had an amazing meal last night, both thoroughly enjoyed everything we had. Many thanks to Jamie, Alys, Sam, Holly and the chefs, Josh and Sam. We will definitely be recommending you to anyone. Many thanks 😊 x

Jamie was absolutely amazing! So helpful and accommodating, an absolute gem. Could not recommend him enough and food was fantastic as usual too x

Great watering hole, especially in this hot weather. Their full English breakfast was great.

It's a lovely spot to stay or to eat.

Fabulous place to sit and eat. The food is excellent as is the service. Dog friendly too so feel free to bring along your little additional furry family member!

It was a nice restaurant with fantastic food. The wait wasn’t too bad and the interior of the restaurant is quite nice and very clean. The staff are very pleasant and incredibly helpful, especially Jamie.

Really nice food and very friendly staff. Thanks to Alice and Holly for being so great at serving customers and for being so pleasant.

Food was nice pub was desolate Tuesday night me and Mrs and one other couple was ok at weekend as you had to book just really quiet in the week

Absolutely fantastic food, it was really delicious . Jamie was really friendly and the service was excellent.

Service was exceptional, very attentive and genuine (Holly and Olivia). Food was generous portions and very tasty. Particularly the artisan bread. I will forgive the menu change. I was looking forward to black pudding fritters.

I'm going to list all the negatives here first. 1. the website has a different menu which says black pudding fritters, they didn't have them. Ok that's it 4 of us eating, every dish was generously portioned. Recommended pizza with chilli honey. And the artisan bread. Service was great from Holly and Olivia attentive and genuine.

Nice scenery, very peaceful, shame they stop serving food at 4.00pm though ☹

Beautifuly prepared tasty food (bit pricey) nice atmosphere. Dog friendly, with stunning views of the lake.

Fabulous evening, food was delicious and Jamie and his team worked really hard looking after everyone and it was nice to see the restaurant full of diners and people enjoying a drink in the bar, may this continue. Well done Jamie. Steve and Jane xx

Just had drinks but watched great looking food being served - massive fish and chips for me next visit. Clean, and friendly, accommodating staff. All tables reserved on Saturday night - so booking in advance a good idea!

Stayed in Lodge nearby. Called in a few times for drinks . Lovely bar overlooking lake. Had a meal in restaurant and the food was freshly cooked and very tasty. Presentation good. Although service was a little slow I put this down to early season. Staff were very pleasant and it was worth it. Look forward to our next visit.

Good menu, good service - quick and politely attentive

Good portion sizes and delicious, fresh made and hot food. However, the service was a little slow.

great atmosphere, attentive staff. Would recommend a visit.

Great family meal in a lovely lake view setting. Good kids menu available. Friendly staff and easy parking.

Arrived without a booking & lovely barman called Jamie fitted us in. Thanks to kitchen staff for being so accommodating. Food was high quality & fresh. Great experience altogether.

Excellent service, shout out to Alice Olivia & Sam, fabulous food. We all had a different meal, each one very good Lovely setting on lakeside. Highly recommended

Excellent service. Lovely staff. Food very good. Staff excellent. Alice Olivia and Sam first class..

A simple menu, beautifully executed. In warm, comfortable surroundings, with helpful staff we were served food cooked to a high standard. The menu is small, but I prefer that as what is served is personally cooked. Non alcoholic drinks were available in a wider variety...

Went with my family on mother's day. Sunday lunch was lovely and our server Jamie was great at servering us.

Brilliant bar staff, canny selection of drinks, quite extensive menu food very tasty and well presented Dog friendly human friendly.

Great food can’t fault it . Friendly bar staff and a bonus it’s dog friendly which is great when you take your dog away on holiday when staying in one of the lodges on the site

Big mistake about previously booked dinner for Christmas Eve.

We stayed on the site in a lodge for 5 nights and ended up eating here 3 times because it was so good. The food was beautifully cooked, so delicious and we were well looked after, particularly by the two young ladies who were looking...

Great location, great food, friendly staff and just beautiful area to be in

Another must visit, nicest steak I have ever ate, lovely atmosphere very friendly staff and dog friendly.

Superb food and we really felt looked after. Prices were reasonable and we were never left with an empty glass. We both cant wait to visit again.

Slow service had to ask for a few things twice nice sienery

Ate here many times whilst we were staying in a beautiful lodge which we rented through pure leisure group.. the food here is incredible, breakfast wonderful. The menu is alacarte, and is great! We booked in advance. Whist staying here, we ate in lots of...

Very rarely leave negative reviews however poor service is highly irritating. Have a lodge on site and use the swimming weekly with 2 young children. Called in post swimming for some food and after deliberation from several members of staff they informed us they did not have enough food to feed us, and that you need to pre book as the chef orders everything in depending on the bookings. Absolutely fine, however friends of ours then rang up to eat and were informed they could pop down at any time that afternoon to eat (not needing to pre-order). If they had been honest and said they would rather not have two children eating there rather than palm us off with an excuse, it would have been fine. But to lie to us and say they had no food left before happily telling others 5 minutes later they would be absolutely fine to come down is very very poor. Will not be returning there for food and will take our business elsewhere in the future.

Brilliant!! Friendly staff,food amazing ...10 out of 10.

Food excellent, drinks a bit pricey but overall highly recommend

We were staying in the holiday park so naturally had a look at this onsite bar and restaurant. Initially quite surprised to find the restaurant closed Monday and Tuesday. And last orders at 9pm. We went back later in the week to be welcomed by a flutter of panic by the bar staff as we hadn't booked a table. Despite there only being about Five tables occupied. It seemed the bar staff had to ask permission from the Chef if it was ok that we sat and ordered food. So we were fumbled to a table and told we couldn't order food until 7pm, despite it being 6.45pm. so we sat and had a drink. Next to all of this we were told that no pizza and garlic bread was available, as the pizza oven was broken. The food that we did order was to a very good standard. For starters we both had the Duck Fritters. Definitely no complaints there. My wife had fish and chips which was ok, good portion size. I ordered a halloumi burger which was also to quite a reasonable standard. Nicely put together, well cooked, flavours balanced nicely. With a good size portion of chips. It has a lovely big outside seating area next to the water. The people were friendly and the service was pretty good.