The best restaurants in South Lakeland North West

Pleasant English village pub atmosphere, friendly staff and local guests. There was a card party in the corner, pleasant relaxed conversation and beer drinking, while 80' and 90' pop rock music was playing. Apex! The beers were delicious and fresh. I loaded goods from the local paper mill as a European trucker and stopped for a night to experience the environment of the local English village. A quiet peaceful place.

We had drinks, lunch and dinner for 2-3 days and loved the food, the bar, and eating on the deck overlooking the river. The scenery is terrific and the remodeled decor and deck were very comfortable. There were problems and confusion with food service everyday we were there, but the remodeling had just been completed, so some reorganizing was be expected. At times we saw pretty aggravated staff members trying their best. It was often hard to get any service at all on the deck as the bartender was expected to wait on tables (forget about clearing and cleaning them) as well as tend bar. I know running a restaurant is tough, and hiring seasonal staff must be even worse. I have no suggestions about how to improve, other than to say hire more staff!!! We very much enjoyed the food and drinks, and the atmosphere. We never did get to eat in the newly remodeled dining room. There was never enough staff to wait tables, but it couldn't have been better than the deck. However, had the weather been rainy or cold, this review might be quite different! Cheers. I do hope we are able to return some time.

Great restaurant within Premier Inn. Lovely fresh breakfast. Helpful staff.

Shambolic Management, I have never been in a place where the staff worked so hard to turn customers away on the pretence that they were short staffed, I was appalled at the way they dealt with an elderly gentleman who visited the pub with his daughter to make a booking for dinner, the staff flatly refused to take a booking and told him that he'd have to turn up and take pot luck that there was availability, disgusting. A shame really because the beer was good and the food was ok, but the bar manager, thought he was doing customers a favour by accommodating them. He and the waitress were leaving to return to London, she was very pleasant by the way. Liked the atmosphere of the place, but the way customers were treated was a disgrace, I've never seen so many people spoken to in such a rude manor, hopefully his replacement will have a desire to be pleasant and accommodating.

Lovely warm welcome, super friendly and delicious home cooked food. Very good value. Highly recommended.

Food lovely and service excellent

I call here every time I'm in the area as the service has always been impeccable, the choice of drink is varied and the side dishes have always been tasty. The place itself has had some major improvements over the past year. It now looks fresh and inviting, whereas it used to just look like a glorified drinkers pub. I'm really impressed with what they've had done. The building to one side, I decided to eat something more substantial today, but not a 'full' meal, so chose something off the 12-3 sandwich menu. I had warm ham and cheese, which comes with a side salad and fries. Thinking this would be a small plate meal, I also ordered onion rings, which is a regular 'go to' for me here. After only a short wait my food arrived, a MOUNTAIN of it. It arrived on a full size dinner plate. The sandwich, which was actually a really fresh deli roll, was laden with what looked like half a pig and a block of melted cheese!! It was amazing. Then there was the fries........ OMG, I think the chef was challenging themselves to see how many they could get on the plate!!... It was all delicious and most certainly EXCELLENT VALUE FOR MONEY. There really was no need to bulk it up with the onion rings.... That said, I ploughed through the lot, and now cannot move. I could really do with an afternoon nap now!!!..... Will recommend this place to anyone AND everyone!!! A big THANK YOU to all at the Comm

From start to finish the staff were welcoming, it was a relaxed atmosphere and the food was delicious. So glad we chose here and not elsewhere, will definitely come back.

Great hotel room a bit rustic and stuffy but what do you expect from a 400 year old house. Room location was still clean. The beer selection was very large and tasty, just like the breakfast..

Had good fish and chips from this takeaway. Chips were very good , fish was fresh and battered crispy. Would visit again.

3 of us had take away, starters, sides and mains. 2 meat eater 1 veggie. All excellent. Really authentic, excellent flavour, not too oily. Would recommend As good as most curry places from Bradford

The food was really nice and delivered to our table by a nice guy , just the bar staff let it down a bit by keeping people waiting and just serving random people even though I was stood there, the girl on that night just seemed to want to serve drinks not take food orders, the guy eventually came and was really nice....2nd Nov 2024

Looks very inviting from outside; bar on the right entrance was ok but we preferred seating arrangements to the other bar to the left accessed through an arch, which does have its own front access. Having checked the menu for the overpriced tapas, we decided on just having drinks only. Had to ask for a cocktail menu, but declined at £10.50. I just had a beer from the other bar (Theakston Summit) which was well kept BUT the Sauvignon Blanc from an opened bottle in their chiller was sour. This does happen occasionally if left over from the previous day. Mentioned it to the woman behind the bar, completely off hand and zero customer service, my wife just left the drink. Observation. The sign outside states cask ales, only the one on sale, the other bar was all keg beers. Would not recommend this establishment.

Our starter was disappointing as the meat was clearly off - this was taken off our bill. The mains were average and lacked depth in flavour. However, the staff were pleasant.

Fantastic food worth the wait if 20-22 mins as it came out fresh and hot. Nice guys, good coffee friendly atmosphere Steaks are renowned, not cheap but you get what you pay for. Been recommended but never made it until now