The best restaurants in Ennerdale Copeland North West

After our long walk at Ennerdale water, we stopped in here for lunch and we certainly had no regrets! All of us hungry after a long walk, this is the place to stop for a generous portion of hearty food! Dogs also welcome inside and looks to have a lovely beer garden which would be nice on a sunny day.

Lovely pub, with a great range of home made food and desserts. The slow roast lamb was ‘melt in your mouth’ delicious and served with plenty of veg and potatoes

I often meet my friend at The Gather and love to relax in the homely atmosphere. The staff are generally very lovely, apart from one female who is sadly quite abrupt and on my last visit was more attentive to a black labrador than to an elderly lady sitting on the sofa. When handed her toasted teacake, she requested a knife, only to be told that they were on the side. Clearly the cutlery is available there, but it would have been so easy to pass the customer a knife . It can be tricky for elderly customers to keep getting up and down from their seat. This female staff member was more eager to give the black labrador a biscuit. It would seem that canine customers get more attention. Please note that it is their humans who are paying. Customers without a dog should not be made to feel inferior. I would like to point out again that all other staff members are very lovely and I would hope they could have passed a knife to the elderly customer if asked. The rule of getting your own cutlery needs to be more flexible.

Don't like to be negative. Ordered a family meal very disappointed ! Just supermarket aldi I'd say bought food and boxed up ordered mac and cheese and with it saying baked on the menu thought great ! It was anything but it was in a cheese sauce real mac n cheese should have toasted crumbs and baked cheese on top. The garlic bread ordered I expected it as pizza form just shop baguette. The chicken on kids meal was a aldi burger sliced not even home made batter gougons, very disappointed and a total waste of money. Also me and another family member has a bad bowel shortly after eating it. Nothing like the pictures on the online menu which was the reason I decided to order