Vote for your favourite place to eat in the Lake District
Your vote helps us understand you as a valued customer and lover of the Cartmel area, the Lowther Valley and the Lake District. Thank you.
PLEASE NOTE: One vote per person
Cartmel Area
Coniston Water Area
The Lake District is a food lovers heaven with a great variety of locally produced & organically grown products & delicacies.
Cumberland sausage, damsons, Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding, Grasmere Gingerbread, Kendal Mint Cake, rum butter, Herdwick Lamb, Holker Salt Marsh Lamb, Muncaster Crab and of course Morecambe Bay brown shrimps.
Visitor to the Lake District and us locals are spoilt for choice when eating out in Cumbria & the Lake District. Many of our local producers and restaurateurs have turned food & drink into an art form with award winning restaurants, pubs & cafes dotted around Cumbria.
The choice of places to eat & drink in Cumbria includes great cafes and brasseries, lovely country pubs, modern gastro pubs and a huge variety of restaurants that will suit all budgets and tastes.
You’ll find Michelin starred restaurants including the north of England’s only 2 Michelin star restaurant (L’Enclume in Cartmel), wonderful regional restaurants using local produce, seafood restaurants and of course restaurants catering for those who like food from around the world including French bistro’s, Thai restaurants, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Spanish etc.
Many of our local restaurants welcome children and several restaurants and most pubs also allow dogs too.
Cumbria & the Lake District is also privileged to have many wonderful farm shops, farmers markets and daily, weekly & monthly village & country markets where you’ll be able to buy wonderful local produce and get to meet the farmers and producers too.
If you love food, you’ll love Cumbria!