The best restaurants serving British food in Kendal Highgate South Lakeland North West

Actually looking at massively rude responses from these *owners* I'm very glad I didn't order any thing more. Most of All the Good reviews are written about previous owner and that's why people think this is a good place to go. But clearly from the really terribly rude replies to any of the reviews that demonstrates a concern for its quality and customer service is replied with awful rudeness.. Based on the replies to reviews alone. If you have any sense. I'd give this place a wide berth... And find somewhere else where you are not verbally abused by the staff. Who wants to give money to people like that? Thank god it was just a coffee.

Spent three nights here, lovely accommodation great staff, great food, recommend to anyone. Owners and staff couldn't do enough to help.

We came here one morning for Breakfast after it was recommended to us from our Airbnb host ! It was a lovely place, warmly greeted and the food was delicious - highly recommend !

First I went to Pizza Express, it was 16:45 on a Saturday afternoon and they turned me away because they were too busy even though there were only about 5 people in there. Thank goodness they did! I found this gem of a restaurant instead. They were happy to fit me in without a booking and the staff were lovely and welcoming. The wine was chilled and the pizza was absolutely delicious. Ditch the chain restaurants and come here instead. You won't regret it!

Habiéndome alojado en un hotel cercano donde mis solicitudes vegetarianas fueron atendidas con una mirada desconcertada o totalmente ignorada, fue genial encontrar este lugar en el Crooklands Hotel. Mucha variedad, comida bellamente presentada, ingredientes frescos y un personal encantador que sirve. Regresamos la noche siguiente porque estaba muy bien. ¡Ojalá nos hubiéramos quedado aquí!

Don’t seem to stick to opening times or opening days. maybe time to update opening times, absolute joke!

Ok, now it’s a bit confusing here as there’s two The Station Inn TripAdvisor profiles/categories here as one shows up in hotels and the other one for their restaurant and food bit? This particular review I’ll call it *part one* is my reviewing of the restaurant and the evening meal/food side of things served up in the pub/restaurant section of The Station Inn. We’d booked into the B&B part of The Station Inn but I’ll give that part a separate review as *part two*. The Station Inn part itself was rammed to the rafters which did come as a bit of a surprise for a Thursday night as I’d presumed an outskirts of town Inn and B&B would be far more touristy and not a drinking spot for the locals but ah well, fair enough, business is business and it was the prelude to the Bank Holiday Easter weekend. Two adults, two teenage boys and two dogs found their reserved table with the humans looking to get fed. I ordered us in some drinks and then suggested everyone give the young chap waiting our table their choice of starters and main courses rather than a tired old me have to remember and order in the lot. I’d originally chosen the black pudding fritters starter but apparently these weren’t available? So, I opted for the Scotch Egg instead, yet this came with pieces of black pudding served in a whisky sauce? Hmmm ok? There was black pudding for the Scotch egg but no black pudding for the black pudding fritters themselves? This black pudding saga would continue at breakfast in *part 2* The Scotch egg was very good though, borderline excellent. Everyone else chose their respective starters, and there was no further issues there, thankfully. For mains I went for the trio of sausage which to be fair was very nice, the sausages themselves tip-top and flavoursome served up with a nice mashed potato plus I’d ordered in a side of chunky chips to bolster things up a bit, but that tiny portion of extra chips certainly wasn’t worth the £3.25 charged. My good lady had a chicken sizzler which looked amazing and it did actually sizzle whilst the twin lads had both picked the steak and onion pie. Everyone reported back to me they were happy enough with their meals, but I’d clocked the vegetables the lads were served up. One plate had mostly cauliflower plated up on it and the other mainly had broccoli rather than them both getting a 50/50 of each vegetable portion (See the photos) Come on, I know it can be pretty hectic during food service but some basic attention to detail here, having cheffed myself many years ago in much busier venues, I can safely say that I never made such trivial schoolboy errors! The Station Inn pub and restaurant bit itself, yeah, it was pretty good, clean, tidy and very busy, the poor bar/serving staff looked like they were getting run-ragged but remained smily, helpful and pleasant, the food itself was fine, and other than a couple of trivial errors regarding food and drink served I was happy enough, I’ll not go into great detail into my 0% Heineken served with a small Birra Moretti glass when I wanted it all served up as a pint of shandy…haha ah nevermind, anyways, we all gave the desserts a miss!

We only went for food and we can honestly say the from the moment we went in, the welcome was a warm one. The staff were very attentive and the owner was such a lovely lady. We would definitely go back to eat and stay there the next time we are in the area.

Alex, was really welcoming great service, definitely be back soon.