Ambleside and near by. Where to eat?

Off for a long weekend to the lakes. Where’s good to eat around Ambleside way. We are staying at the Beech Hill hotel on Windermere. Ten minute drive south of Ambleside. Good pub restaurant, gastro pub would be ideal.

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Brown horse in W(h)inster is very nice.

Zeffirelli’s any good these days?

Zeffirelli’s any good these days?

I found the food bland and pretty expensive for what it was. My wife agreed with me but plenty of others appear to rate it.

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Zeffirelli’s any good these days?

One of my favourite restaurants, YMMV.

It’s a little more than 10 mins to Ambleside from the beach hill, and it’s a crap road!
But a great place to eat is the swan at newby bridge, just head south from the beech hill and it’s at the end of the lake.
Or if you nip over gummers Howe, you’ve got the masons arms, and the hare and hounds in bowland bridge. Both great pubs with good food. Although the masons is quite expensive.

Kendal to Grasmere is a bit of a culinary desert IMHO
Hooked in Windermere (if you like fish) is worth a booking though.
Pizza Express in Kendal is one of the better ones 8)

Masons arms is good
I found severely is ok, nothing fantastic
There is a Thai restaurant near to the putting green as you come into ambleside from Windermere, was fantastic

Lucy’s in the town is good.

Doi Intanon Thai (top of The Slack) is a bazillion times better than Jintana Thai (bottom of The Slack).

Emm, is Zeffirellis vegetarian? Can’t find meat on the menu. Sack that! 😆

+1 Samcamsdad, I’ve stayed at the Beech Hill it’s more like a 20min drive to Ambleside & then you’ve got to get parked up..

Head east from where you are-
The Masons Arms
The Hare & Hounds
The Punch Bowl
The Wild Boar Inn

South-
The Swan- Newby Bridge
Loads of places in Cartmel

Ambleside-
There’s a few decent cheapish pizza places, but for a bit extra i don’t think you can go wrong with Lucy’s.

Yes Zeffirelli’s is vegitarian, but it is a good one.
Celery anyone? 😉

We’ve often eat out in Ambleside and mainly goto:

http://www.sheilascottage.co.uk/

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Emm, is Zeffirellis vegetarian? Can’t find meat on the menu. Sack that!

I booked the place for me an a dozen friends for my 30th birthday.
At the time I was a rare steak eating, black pudding loving carnivore – I still enjoyed it though.

Wind forward a few years and I’m virtually vegan 😆

The two may not be connected.

another vote for Dodds

Probably the best restaurant in the UK at the moment;
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Expensive though 🙂

The steaks and gin cocktails at the bar and grill at the Waterhead are amazing:
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186319-d730698-Reviews-Bar_Grill_at_Waterhead-Ambleside_Lake_District_Cumbria_England.html

Dodds was excellent when we went recently.

Kendal to Grasmere is a bit of a culinary desert IMHO

How recently did you eat out in Ambleside? There’s loads of decent places to eat there now.

If you can sort a taxi I can really recommend the Drunken Duck. Tis the bomb but a tad expensive. http://drunkenduckinn.co.uk/dining/

Been a couple of times and have never been disappointed. Booking is essential.

There’s Sheila’s Cottage restaurant just up The Slack from the bike shop in the middle of Ambleside that does decent food if you’re ever in town. I always go there when I’m entertaining overseas visitors and I’ve never been disappointed.

I booked the place for me an a dozen friends for my 30th birthday.
At the time I was a rare steak eating, black pudding loving carnivore – I still enjoyed it though.

Zef’s is a veggie restaurant, but not like any other I’ve been to. It’s first and foremost an Italian restaurant, not an organic tree-hugging sawdust-on-the-floor cottage-pie-made-with-hummous-and-gravel establishment like many are.

Emm, is Zeffirellis vegetarian? Can’t find meat on the menu. Sack that!

There was no meat on the menu when I went. I know vegetarian food can be tasty but it wasn’t.

The restaurant at the Waterhead Hotel is good and so is the Fulling Mill in Ableside.

Chesters is real good for breakfast, lunch or coffee and cake.
The Drunken Duck is fantastic for dinner.

Wainwright inn in Chapel stile.

They do great burgers.

Lake Road Kitchen in Ambleside itself?

The chef has previously worked at Noma, Per Se and La Pergola (8 stars between the 3 of them) so… knows his onions – B’Dum Tish!

Not cheap but not expensive and nobody seems to leave hungry…

Dodds is pretty good, tweedies in grasmere is ace.

Another vote for Zeffirelli’s here. Think I’d been perusing the menu for about 10 mins before I worked out that V meant vegan, not vegetarian.

The food and cinema ticked deal is/was good value. (Been a while, I assume they still offer it)

Dodd’s +1.
Not telling you why…