The best restaurants in Kirkby Thore Eden North West

Acorn Bank is a splendid place to visit and made even more so by a visit to the pop-up cafe situated in the court yard. Run by a mother and daughter team, the homemade cakes using produce from Acorn Bank's garden, a wonderful cup of locally sourced coffee and an extremely warm and friendly welcome made a lovely day out even more special. Highly recommended.

Lovely little spot. Great selection of cakes, food, teas & coffees and even do Mocktails! Little bits on sale around the room Good for families, groups or a quick work lunch. Take away available. Different suppoet groups on during the week.

We had a very basic meal, mackerel and salad, half tiny over cooked fillet, elements of the salad missing, ie tomatoes, my husband had the scampi and chips, meagre portion again and chips possibly either reheated or old as dry and dehydrated… as someone else pointed out I’m sorry but have to say everything felt a bit grubby.. for the prices, just not worth it left feeling robbed. Service very very slow but understandable as busy and appeared understaffed.

We go to The Bridge about 4 times per year. We are not very extravagant but when we do eat out we want it to be better than I can make at home. Any guest we bring with us all love it too. Every meal we’ve had here has been excellent! My favourites are Twice Baked Cheese Soufflé, The Seafood Linguini, my hubby loves the Fish & Chips (he has this every time he goes, lol) . My son loves the Squid starter and I also love the Pate when it’s on. I had a gorgeous fish course in spring but I forget the name of the fish which was the whitest fish I’ve ever seen. I highly recommend Bridge Bistro.

Party of 14 for Saturday and Sunday night. Excellent food, bedrooms and staff who were exceptionally helpful and attentive.

Great food, lovely setting. Prices good. Friendly staff. Would highly recommend. Near to Lowther Castle.

Slowest service ever! Even with no one there. Both in store or drive thru. To still get the order completely wrong . No care whatsoever. 😤😤😤🤬🤬🤬😡😡

Wow what a lovely experience !! My daughter had a cheese burger kids meal and my husband and I had cheesy bacon loaded fries 🍟 🥰 and my son a large cheese burger. The service was spot on and the food was hot and so tasty !!!!! Thank you

Me and my family went in for the carvery and at first the meat looked pretty good under the light of the food warmer, but as soon as it went on our plates it looked absolutely disgusting, the beef was blood red, the pork was 90% fat 10% meat, the gravy was like bog water and the roasties were raw. my daughter did not want most of the trimmings due to her being very particular with her food and the chef kept mocking her for not wanting any yorkshire puddings, roasties or stuffing balls which really upset her. Out of 8 of us, 2 of us enjoyed the meal and it was the only 2 people that did not have a carvery. Also the mashed potatoes had a strong taste and smell of cheese when we asked for a completely plain portion. But atleast our waitress was lovely, can’t say the same about the food or the chefs

Prices don’t seem too unreasonable until you realise what you actually get. First photo taken directly from the website vs the second photo of what I received. Doesn’t seem like even an ounce of effort went into presentation and it didn’t taste much better than it looked. Staff were rushing about and making you feel hurried on to leave so they can have your table for the next customer, save your brass and make it at home be half the price and actually be edible.