The best restaurants serving British food in Ambleside and Grasmere South Lakeland North West

The best Bakewell slice I have ever eaten! Absolutely delicious. Exceeded expectations. Will be back next time in Ambleside

Love this place, have been going since it first opened. Style, atmosphere and location is perfect. Great views, easy walking distance to Elterwater, Chapel Stile, Grasmere and Ambleside. Food is always delicious, good portion size and nice menu variation. Cocktails are good and highly recommend the gin and vodka from the nearby distillery. Staff are warm and friendly with good service. Cosy fire in winter.

Incredible pies. The best mushy peas I've ever eaten. Rich gravy. What's not to love

Excellent restaurant with a warm ambience and great food. I would recommend without hestiation

We booked a room and were greeted by a not-so-polite receptionist who told us that kids are not welcome. “We are adult only”. There was no information about this in the booking confirmation or anywhere visible. They kept saying, “We’ve never had guests with kids before; you’re the only ones.” They just managed to guess the hotel rules somehow. Rude. However, the manager was polite enough.

Booked for a birthday treat. Beautiful location. Staff very friendly and prompt service. Nice touches in room and beautiful rooms but windows and bathroom looking slightly tired (helm crag room, no 27). A lot of stairs. Food delicious. Not sure why they didn't use guacamole rather than garden peas (not crushed as per menu) on breakfast with poached egg. Spa is lovely but is only small so gets busy easily and then only chairs are outside.

Staff were friendly Food was super tasty ! Great location in the middle of Ambleside The Cornish pasty was fantastic, well seasoned

Great food and friendly service. We ate enormous club sandwiches, looking out at beautiful views of Ambleside, while our dog slept peacefully under the table.

We booked a table at Matthews bistro for our honeymoon getaway in the lakes. The food was incredible, the Sauvignon Blanc was fantastic & the service topped it all off. Our waitresses were so hospitable. I had the seabass as a main & it was so good I’m going to try recreate a version at home! Thank you for a wonderful experience.

A really great place to stay .Top quality food friendly staff.

Really sorry to say that our Sunday lunch experience on the 6th of April wasn’t great. It was all part of my birthday celebration weekend and a group of us had booked a table in the afternoon. We were shown to a table in a room where no one else was sitting which actually suited us as we were all having a good catch up. However we were then forgotten about and 25 minutes later had to go to the bar to ask if we could order some drinks having been originally told someone would come to the table for our order. This was repeated with our food order. We didn’t actually eat our meals until an hour and ten minutes after we had arrived. Whilst some group members enjoyed their meals those of us who had the Sunday roasts found much of the food cold, the beef was over cooked, and the roast potatoes were no longer crisp but unpleasantly soggy. The gravy was very nice. No apologies really, not enough staff, won’t be going back I’m afraid. 😢

My review is for the shop and only the shop. When I went into the shop to by some cakes, was not able to pay for said cakes because I had a £50 pound note. As far as I no that is still English money.

Great stop after walking from Skelwith Fold. Coffee was brilliant! They have little oat milk cartons available if you so desire. And the flapjack is excellent! Do not miss out on the flapjack!! Not surprisingly, the place was heaving but plenty of room to sit outside or on the village green as we did. Loads of water bowls around for dogs, which was great.

We arrived mid-afternoon, and not realising they were closing early, proceeded to order lunch for us and our small person. They didn't tell us and let us eat - it was only partway through our meal we realised as the place emptied and the sign on the door mysteriously turned to closed. If we had known / realised, we wouldn't have put them to the trouble. But we were glad we were able to stay because the service was friendly and the food was delicious and filling. And even more special, one of the servers played games and did magic with our little girl, which she thoroughly enjoyed and has been trying to recreate ever since. A lovely place to eat. We will definitely come again - perhaps this time we will pay attention to the signs!

Al dejar el hotel car park y a pie a la zona del lago para tomar el té de la tarde, que son golpeados por la impresionante vista del lago Windermere. Nos sentamos en la parte de delante del balcón de piedra, la señora que nos servía era muy acogedor y eficiente. Pedimos una crema té completo de la tarde que era perfecto. Un lugar perfecto para tomar el té de la tarde en un hotel maravilloso.