The best restaurants serving British food in Windermere Applethwaite and Troutbeck South Lakeland North West

Sarah welcomed us at the door warmly and guided us to the bar for a pre dinner drink of Lakes Gin & Tonic - delicious. Sarah was very helpful when talking us through the menu making excellent suggestions for the side dishes to accompany our main course. She lead us to an intimate table with a stunning view of Windermere and the hills beyond. As the sunset, Sarah's team served starters of sumptuous squid with chorizo risotto and moreish goats cheese with pear and artichoke. Next, with understated polish, Sarah presented us with our Chateaubriand. Out of this world!!!!! Despite the fact we were pleasantly sated, Sarah tempted us with puddings - Sticky toffee - life changing, Passionfruit cheesecake - divine. All in all, we had a wonderful dinner in a very special restaurant. Thank you very much to Sarah and the team. We will return!

Do NOT STAY in the family room room 12!! i checked in late with my 2 grandsons, bedding clean but.....see photos everything else is terrible, only 1 member of staff and she is on the bar. Too late and no spare rooms as its bank holiday. Will not have a shower until im home!

After booking a table for 5pm , thought a roast dinner would be nice , on arriving we are told only roast beef was left , so my husband went for beef I went for the Vegetarian roast , on arriving my husband has one very small piece of broccoli I had 2 small ones , dried up 3 little roast potatoes and mash potatoes was cold so disappointed ! We did point out our disappointment which they said they would take away bit if they had veg in kitchen wjy not serve it !!! Will not be going again , if your going to serve a roast then serve a full hot roast !!

Went for afternoon tea. Lovely venue and pleasant staff but the Afternnon tea was dissapointing, the single very lonely pig in a blanket was nice..but no sandwiches, little bits of fancy coloured cakes. No nutritious value. Not my cup of tea i'm afraid and had to go looking for somewhere to eat after we left. And £60 for the experience☹🤣..that is 3 exellent afternoon teas for 2 at our local cafe still in the lakes!.. but it is the lakes after all...££££££££££££££££££.