Guidebook for Kendal and South Lakeland
Food Scene
Upmarket hotel and restaurant with it's own smokehouse. Check out their menu!
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The Wild Boar
Crook RoadUpmarket hotel and restaurant with it's own smokehouse. Check out their menu!
2 minutes by car from our house. Village pub with restaurant and bar meals, recommended by our guests for reasonably priced and delicious food. Sunny outside seating area. Free taxi back home for advance bookings.
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The Black Labrador
2 minutes by car from our house. Village pub with restaurant and bar meals, recommended by our guests for reasonably priced and delicious food. Sunny outside seating area. Free taxi back home for advance bookings.
Great place for afternoon tea and morning coffee. Total luxury only 5 mins from Bowness
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Gilpin Hotel & Lake House
Crook RoadGreat place for afternoon tea and morning coffee. Total luxury only 5 mins from Bowness
The most amazing Asian fusion food with an open kitchen. At Gilpin House Hotel open to non residents.
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Gilpin Spice
Crook RoadThe most amazing Asian fusion food with an open kitchen. At Gilpin House Hotel open to non residents.
Wonderful afternoon tea in a country house hotel with acres of garden, a tarn and ageless charm!
Lindeth Fell Hotel
Wonderful afternoon tea in a country house hotel with acres of garden, a tarn and ageless charm!
Comida [food]
90 HighgateSpanish themed cuisine in Kendal with some outside seating.
The Sun Inn
Oh, what a little gem of a place! Fab, home baked cakes and tea in a real, Lakeland farmhouse with views down to the lake if you go in the snug at the back.
Best, proper home baking. Their Bakewell Tart is the best I've ever eaten!
Swallows & Amazons restaurant and cafe at Bank Ground Farm
Oh, what a little gem of a place! Fab, home baked cakes and tea in a real, Lakeland farmhouse with views down to the lake if you go in the snug at the back.
Best, proper home baking. Their Bakewell Tart is the best I've ever eaten!
Quirky and ancient café selling delicious woodfire baked sourdough Italian dishes. It's on cobbled Branthwaite Brow in Yard 46 and has an attractive outside seating area too!
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Yard 46 Cafe - Breakfast, Lunch, Coffee & Cake
46 Branthwaite BrowQuirky and ancient café selling delicious woodfire baked sourdough Italian dishes. It's on cobbled Branthwaite Brow in Yard 46 and has an attractive outside seating area too!
Arts & Culture
Great programme of events. Theatre, music, cinema, cafe and restaurant with a Michelin starred chef at the helm!
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Brewery Arts Centre
122A HighgateGreat programme of events. Theatre, music, cinema, cafe and restaurant with a Michelin starred chef at the helm!
It houses a fascinating collection of domestic artefacts that show how life was for the Cumbrians long ago.
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Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry
KirklandIt houses a fascinating collection of domestic artefacts that show how life was for the Cumbrians long ago.
Lovely café, fabulous arts and craft movement house, lake view gardens. One of my fav places to pop in for coffee.
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Blackwell - the Arts & Crafts house
Lovely café, fabulous arts and craft movement house, lake view gardens. One of my fav places to pop in for coffee.
Drinks & Nightlife
great character country pub with good food and wide selection of specialist beers in pretty hamlet 15 mins drive from house through country lanes.
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The Masons Arms
great character country pub with good food and wide selection of specialist beers in pretty hamlet 15 mins drive from house through country lanes.
Great selection of beer in the up and coming arty Castle Mills Yard. Street food once a month.
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Factory Tap
5 Aynam RdGreat selection of beer in the up and coming arty Castle Mills Yard. Street food once a month.
Lots of outside seating, located in Kendal's Aynam Road Yard.
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The Barrel House
Aynam RoadLots of outside seating, located in Kendal's Aynam Road Yard.
Essentials
Walk over Cunswick Fell from the house (easy 45min on foot) and have lunch/coffee at The Two Sisters cafe at Plumgarths.
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Plumgarths Farm Shop & Cafe
Walk over Cunswick Fell from the house (easy 45min on foot) and have lunch/coffee at The Two Sisters cafe at Plumgarths.
great local supermarket/deli with lots of local produce and specialist foods. Easy parking in store carpark and 2 mins in car from house. Parking is free after 6pm and handy for town centre.
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Booths, Kendal
Wainwrights Yardgreat local supermarket/deli with lots of local produce and specialist foods. Easy parking in store carpark and 2 mins in car from house. Parking is free after 6pm and handy for town centre.
Shopping
Great local produce and crafts.You can watch the cows being milked whilst you enjoy a meal in the cafe at milking time. Get raw, unpasteurised milk from the dispensing machine. Straight from cow to bottle. Delicious!
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Low Sizergh Barn Boerderijwinkel & Café
Great local produce and crafts.You can watch the cows being milked whilst you enjoy a meal in the cafe at milking time. Get raw, unpasteurised milk from the dispensing machine. Straight from cow to bottle. Delicious!
Parks & Nature
Tarn Hows - National Trust
2 Oak StreetThere are stunning views and it's beautiful.
Chester's by the River does great food, there is a scenic and easy walk to Elterwater beside the river. You can have a coffee/ beer/ food at The Brittania Inn or Eltermere Hotel. If it's raining, go for a spa day at Langdale Estates.
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Skelwith Bridge
Chester's by the River does great food, there is a scenic and easy walk to Elterwater beside the river. You can have a coffee/ beer/ food at The Brittania Inn or Eltermere Hotel. If it's raining, go for a spa day at Langdale Estates.
Sightseeing
My most favourite place in South Lakeland, overlooking wonderful Coniston Water. Amazing woodland gardens, café, beautiful house to explore and is the former home of John Ruskin friend of the C19 Romantic Brotherhood of artists.
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Brantwood
My most favourite place in South Lakeland, overlooking wonderful Coniston Water. Amazing woodland gardens, café, beautiful house to explore and is the former home of John Ruskin friend of the C19 Romantic Brotherhood of artists.
Levens Hall
Spectacular topiary gardens and a great café with modern food!