March 29, 2021
Fine Dining Restaurants in The Lake District
With a landscape filled with some of the best local produce in the UK. It is unsurprising that Cumbria has an array of award-winning fine dining restaurants.
Cumbria now has an incredible 13 Michelin Stars across 11 restaurants! The county has become a food lovers’ paradise.
Take a look at some of our favourite fine dining Lake District restaurants:
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L’Enclume, Cartmel (20 miles from Absoluxe)
Possibly the most well-known fine dining destination in the Lake District. L’Enclume in Cartmel is owned by two times Michelin Star chef, Simon Rogan and is certainly the jewel in the South Lakes culinary crown.
The restaurant has its own onsite farm which dictates the menu and acts as the chef’s main source of inspiration. “ingredients that change with the seasons inspire my menu development and ensure a truly traceable dining experience, reflecting my farm to table philosophy”.
L’Enclume also holds five AA Rosettes and was named the number one restaurant in the UK by The Good Food Guide 2020.
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Cottage In The Woods, Keswick (60 miles from Absoluxe)
Perched 1,000ft up in the Whinlatter Forest above Keswick in the northern Lake District, The Cottage in the Wood is a unique Michelin Star Restaurant, with chef Sam Miller’s creative cooking, friendly service and a warm welcome in a stunning natural setting. The landscape provides a rich larder for their Michelin Star Restaurant; Herdwick Hogget from the surrounding Cumbrian fells, freshly caught fish and shellfish from West coast harbours and a host of wild foods.
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Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside (26 miles from Absoluxe)
In a few short years ‘Lake Road Kitchen’ has ‘become one of the area’s outstanding go-to destinations. Deeply rooted in the heart of the Lake District with an ambitious yet heartfelt menu.
About 80% of everything green on the menu is foraged; the remainder comes from the highest-quality local suppliers. Dishes include fallow deer from the Holker Estate, aged steak from Lake District farms, and Fylde Coast wigeon. In conclusion, every dish is creatively conceived and expertly put together. Creating food of the highest order.
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Kysty, Ambleside (26 miles from Absoluxe)
At its very heart are brothers Ryan and Craig Blackburn, who inspired by the landscape they grew up in, have set about creating a quintessentially Cumbrian menu. Their mission is to serve great food, which above all else is seasonal, inspirational and delicious.
Guests are provided with a truly memorable dining experience, one that they will want to enjoy time and time again, due to Kysty’s ever-developing menus curated by Head Chef Dan Hopkins. They utilise beef from the Solway Plain, wild game from the high Pennines, mushrooms, nuts and berries from the woods and fresh shellfish from the cool waters of Cumbria’s Irish Sea coast.
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Hrishi, Gilpin Spice, Windermere (19 miles from Absoluxe)
The laid-back ‘Gilpin Spice’ has an open kitchen serving tapas-style pan-Asian dishes inspired by countries along the spice trail. Spanning the Philippines, the Indian sub-continent, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan and China.
With envy-inducing interiors and panoramic views to the Lake District fells, it is easy to fall in love with Hrishi. Therefore, you can be assured the quality of the dishes is stumbling upon perfection, with a Michelin star under their belt, plus four AA Rosettes.
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Old Stamp House, Ambleside (26 miles from Absoluxe)
The Old Stamp House restaurant creates food inspired by Cumbria, its people and heritage. Sat in the heart of Ambleside just off the shores of Lake Windermere, the restaurant is housed in the former office of the great poet William Wordsworth.
The Old Stamp House showcases a unique food culture. Long influenced by the county’s rich trading historical seafaring trade with distant lands in the Americas, Caribbean, and India. These historic Cumbrian dishes make full use of a huge array of imported spices such as pepper, mace, ginger, sugar and rum brought to these shores through the coastal ports of Whitehaven and Maryport.
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Forest Side, Grasmere (30 miles from Absoluxe)
The Forest Side’s restaurant is designed to be, a reflection of the Cumbrian landscape in which it sits. To help achieve this, the chefs’ select only the freshest locally sourced seasonal produce. Which is then paired with an exclusive wine list featuring small organic and bio-dynamic wine producers.
Head Chef Paul Leonard used an artful combination of interesting and unusual flavours stemming from his love of the countryside. Plus the fabulous ingredients with which we are blessed in Cumbria. This provides diners with an unrivalled experience to excite and tantalise your taste buds and senses.
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The Samling, Ambleside (24 miles from Absoluxe)
You will struggle to find a better view than that from The Samling’s Dining Room. A panoramic scene of Lake Windermere and the counties rolling mountains. In response to the dramatic landscape the restaurant sits in, Executive Head Chef, Robby Jenks, is developing and refining menus with a purity of flavour based on the core ingredients in each dish. therefore where possible these ingredients are from their greenhouse, gardens and woodland, locally sourced, or the best available in the UK.
We would recommend booking for a Fine Dining Lunch, to be able to make to most of the stunning views.
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Linthwaite House, Bowness-on-Windermere (21 miles from Absoluxe)
Henrock at Linthwaite House is a new, informally elegant restaurant by Simon Rogan (L’Enclume). True to the Simon Rogan’s ethos, the focus lies on beautiful local ingredients, including produce from his own Farm located just a few miles away in the Cartmel Valley. Henrock’s á la carte menu features small plates and sharing dishes. Which are influenced by advanced culinary techniques and produce discovered on the chefs travels around the world.