The best restaurants serving British food in Askham Eden North West

Pooley Bridge is a great location to stay and explore the Northern Lakes with several very welcoming inns with great beer gardens and decent food. The 1863 Restaurant & Rooms however is on a different level altogether. We stayed for two nights in the Luxury Suite (room 7) which, although smaller than we had anticipated, was extremely comfortable and well appointed. The real reason to stay here though is to enjoy the restaurant experience. On our first night we had the 3 course option which was imply superb. The presentation, quality of food and level of attention from the team were all exceptional. We indulged ourselves with the 7 course "Taster" menu on the 2nd night which actually turned out to be almost 10 courses with the little extras that arrived. We thought our first experience would be hard to improve on but night two and the 7 course option was simply sublime. Thank you to all of the team for making our stay so special.

We stayed in pooley Bridge for 3 nights and managed to visit nearly every day, lol. Lovely place, an amazing outside area too with fantastic views, staff professional and friendly, baileys hot chocolate to die for. We only called in for hot drinks and cake, but we will definitely be back to try lunch or maybe even afternoon tea. Our dogs also loved the dog sausage

A comfortable and friendly pub, offering delicious classic pub food. I didn't stay over here, so I can't rate the rooms.

This place is an absolute shambles, the boiler did not work leaving us without hot water and heating for the weekend, the place was filthy on arrival, all the crockery and pots and pans where dirty, When we told owner that the TV didn't work, he told us to buy one. I would not recommend this place until the owner has brought it up to standard. The advertised hot tub overlooks the neighbours house and gardens, and looks as if it was shoved in the only place it would fit.

Did not stay at the hotel which looks very nice, except for all the flies in the pub down stairs. No really, sat down to watch the England, Ireland game, supposed to be 22 players on the pitch, looked like 32 with the 10 extra flies on tje tv screen! I asked the manager, who was a lovely woman, is this normal? She said yes. I asked for fly spray but she said no with all the other customers, but i can move. We couldn't move because we were watching the game. Need pest control desperately.