The best restaurants in North West

We love it here! Perfect spot for breakfast. I had a wonderful pancake stack and my partner had a halloumi & bacon roll - both delicious! Great for a post-walk treat. The team are all lovely too - super friendly, attentive and the place is spotlessly clean and nicely decorated as well. Very dog friendly and lots of space for families too.

What a great restaurant. Excellent service. Superb food. Best fish curry we’ve ever tasted. An absolute pleasure to visit.

Great visit! Friendly staff, great value, service and amazing menu! Didn’t book in advance but had a warm welcome and our dinner was delicious!

What a brilliant venue - came here to see Jamie Webster. The sound system was amazing, the staff were really friendly despite being so so busy!

Picked the only day with wind and rain and it was actually really nice that the café was warm when it opened. Nice ambience. Really friendly staff. We had breakfast baps, a little dry perhaps but the mushrooms were tasty. Sensible prices. Dog friendly.

The usual food variety for a lay-by set up done perfectly. The place was clean, food good quality and plenty of it. Very friendly couple and Amanda’s baps were 👌 See you next time we are up.

Great value, fresh and delicious - we’ll definitely be coming back! If you’re looking for something around Ambleside/Grasmere/Windermere affordable and without any fuss look no further!

The best Chinese meal I’ve had in ages, we got the set meal for two and it was all gorgeous, two portions of chicken and sweetcorn soup, prawn toasts, spring rolls, chicken wings and prawn crackers and there is a choice of any two mains with rice or chips, all that for £26 ! Amazing value and all cooked perfectly and piping hot. We had Fish and chips last week and that was also perfect, the fish was huge and proper chippy chips. The one negative is the gravy, it’s not a traditional chippy gravy and we didn’t like it, but everything else is Lush 😀

We have visited the restaurant twice & on each occasion enjoyed the food & atmosphere. Aisha was a wonderful host & made sure we were looked after & nothing was too much trouble. The chaat bombs & mango kulfi went down an absolute treat……delicious! Definitely will be coming back again & recommend this highly.

We absolutely love Lift Up! As very frequent visiters to Chill we are here often. Fab tea and hot chocolate (gold dust anyone?!) and the cakes are epic. Especially love the banana bread and homemade cakes. Food is lovely and even the fussy ones find something. Would like to visit to dine and drink in a bit more but one member of our family gets a bit anxious in closed in spaces so it can be a bit much as often very busy. Takeaway is an option available.

In all my seventy-never-you-mind years, the warmest welcome ever in an eatery. And not the professional synthetic welcome one sometimes gets, this was the real deal. What lovely people. Friday evening, 1830h, pretty full. Mostly locals, always a good sign. A boisterous family table of eight for instance, replaced while we there by a family table of nine. The bar, locals, busy. Even so, service was quick. The food is... sshhh... cheap, but very good and plenty of it. A cut above the normal standard of pub grub. I had whitebait, steak, cheese cake. The home-made white chocolate banoffie cheese cake at £4.50 was remarkable, like a marriage between a cheese and a cake. Unfortunately it came with two spoons and it got raided, shall we say, by someone who said they were too full for a dessert. Hmmph. Overall, great, just great. One tip... if you visit of a sunny summer's evening, as you drive up to the car park you'll need your sun glasses.

Afternoon drink with friends. First visit on recommendation and didn’t disappoint. Greeted by warm and friendly staff who were excellent. Given olives and nibbles as we sat down. Lovely rose blush pinot wine. Dog friendly and reasonably busy but not overly so. Would definitely visit again.

It’s such a great spot with a cosy atmosphere and wide variety of menu where. Everything was. Warm, fresh and tasty. The chicken baos, dumplings and lamb on crack. Were the highlight of the experience positively

Lovely hidden gem. Excellent food, and relaxed Parisian vibe

Very sorry that Mag has retired. But not to despair. It's replacement in the shape of Nishi Sushi is at leasst as good. Nishi Sushi is more too than just a great place for sushi. A wide range of delicious starters and mains options besides sushi. Veggies well-catered for.