Paul And Sue's Guidebook
Food scene
16th Century Inn with good food in the bar, bistro and restaurant
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The Pheasant Inn Hotel & Restaurant
16th Century Inn with good food in the bar, bistro and restaurant
Literally the best coffee in Cumbria, lovely atmosphere, great home made cake, nice proprietor Stephen and lovely staff
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The Moon & Sixpence
29 Main StLiterally the best coffee in Cumbria, lovely atmosphere, great home made cake, nice proprietor Stephen and lovely staff
One of the best restaurants. In the country. Lovely old building. Good food at fair prices.
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The Drunken Duck Inn & Restaurant
One of the best restaurants. In the country. Lovely old building. Good food at fair prices.
One of the very best pub lunches and dinners available. A little bit of a drive away, but through superb countryside.
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Brown Horse Inn
One of the very best pub lunches and dinners available. A little bit of a drive away, but through superb countryside.
The Lakes has a lot of high price upmarket restaurants and many of them are excellent. This one is special because the food is fantastic and the bill is reasonable considering how good the cooking is. The restaurant is in the building that housed the official stamp distribution office that the poet William Wordsworth ran.
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The Priest Hole Restaurant
Church StreetThe Lakes has a lot of high price upmarket restaurants and many of them are excellent. This one is special because the food is fantastic and the bill is reasonable considering how good the cooking is. The restaurant is in the building that housed the official stamp distribution office that the poet William Wordsworth ran.
Wonderful, unusual crispy pizzas, decent coffee, huge slices of cake, very very popular and you can’t book so just turn up and queue. It’s well worth it.
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The Square Orange Café
20 St John's StWonderful, unusual crispy pizzas, decent coffee, huge slices of cake, very very popular and you can’t book so just turn up and queue. It’s well worth it.
An unexpected find. This is an authentic Turkish restaurant, very smart, gleaming, friendly and popular. Not too pricey. A great budget restaurant.
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Aspava Restaurant
64 Main StAn unexpected find. This is an authentic Turkish restaurant, very smart, gleaming, friendly and popular. Not too pricey. A great budget restaurant.
Great vegetarian food, flatbreads, cakes, drinks, coffee. Hugely popular in a lovely site overlooking the river. Well priced. This place also has a hiker’s cafe for good food on the hoof and a shop selling upmarket, well, tat.
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Chesters By The River
Great vegetarian food, flatbreads, cakes, drinks, coffee. Hugely popular in a lovely site overlooking the river. Well priced. This place also has a hiker’s cafe for good food on the hoof and a shop selling upmarket, well, tat.
This is the dream cafe you always hope to find in the countryside - excellent home baking, good coffee right in the centre of the historic Grasmere village a stone’s throw from Dove Cottage.
Baldrys
This is the dream cafe you always hope to find in the countryside - excellent home baking, good coffee right in the centre of the historic Grasmere village a stone’s throw from Dove Cottage.
Excellent deli, wine merchant, and upstairs cafe. Live music, outside tables, friendly staff.
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Cockermouth Sweetie Shop
11 South StExcellent deli, wine merchant, and upstairs cafe. Live music, outside tables, friendly staff.
Lovely upmarket cafe with a Scandinavian theme attached to the studio belonging to the Great Lake District artistic family.
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Mathilde’s Café
Lovely upmarket cafe with a Scandinavian theme attached to the studio belonging to the Great Lake District artistic family.
Sightseeing
A genuine independent bookshop with an ever changing stock. The proprietor Catherine makes sure she has the best local books, up to date fiction, walking books, greetings cards and there’s a decent cafe in the back.
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The New Bookshop
42-44 Main StA genuine independent bookshop with an ever changing stock. The proprietor Catherine makes sure she has the best local books, up to date fiction, walking books, greetings cards and there’s a decent cafe in the back.
A very unusual thing - an international standard commercial gallery selling some of the very best art and crafts on the market. You will see works by established and new artists that the owners also sell online and at exhibitions in London .
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Castlegate House Gallery
CastlegateA very unusual thing - an international standard commercial gallery selling some of the very best art and crafts on the market. You will see works by established and new artists that the owners also sell online and at exhibitions in London .
The best example of an Arts and Crafts era house in the Lake District. And once you tire of touring the beautiful interior there is an excellent cafe.
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Blackwell - the Arts & Crafts house
The best example of an Arts and Crafts era house in the Lake District. And once you tire of touring the beautiful interior there is an excellent cafe.
Possibly the most beautiful valley in the Lake District. There is a lovely four mile walk around the perimeter which at one point travels through a tunnel cut through the rock face. Try Syke Farm Cafe at the end. They make their own ice cream with milk donated by their cows.
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Buttermere
Possibly the most beautiful valley in the Lake District. There is a lovely four mile walk around the perimeter which at one point travels through a tunnel cut through the rock face. Try Syke Farm Cafe at the end. They make their own ice cream with milk donated by their cows.
Crummock is on the end of Buttermere, but it is twice as big. It is difficult to decide which is the more beautiful lake. It’s nine miles around Crummock, so you will need plenty of sandwiches and a hot drink. Half way around you can divert to Buttermere for lunch at Syke Farm Cafe.
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Crummock Water
Crummock is on the end of Buttermere, but it is twice as big. It is difficult to decide which is the more beautiful lake. It’s nine miles around Crummock, so you will need plenty of sandwiches and a hot drink. Half way around you can divert to Buttermere for lunch at Syke Farm Cafe.
Loweswater has a different, even more remote vibe than Buttermere or Crummock. On one side you walk through a wood that was literally designed by William Wordsworth. On the other side there is a quiet road you can walk along. But the real walkers take the route over Holme Wood which has lovely views.
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Loweswater
Loweswater has a different, even more remote vibe than Buttermere or Crummock. On one side you walk through a wood that was literally designed by William Wordsworth. On the other side there is a quiet road you can walk along. But the real walkers take the route over Holme Wood which has lovely views.
It’s a really good idea to visit Wordsworth House and Garden, not just because it is the birthplace of the poet but also because the heritage garden at the back by the river is fascinating. The volunteers in each room are very knowledgeable about the family history - and naturally there is a great cafe selling cakes baked in Cockermouth.
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Wordsworth House and Garden
Main StreetIt’s a really good idea to visit Wordsworth House and Garden, not just because it is the birthplace of the poet but also because the heritage garden at the back by the river is fascinating. The volunteers in each room are very knowledgeable about the family history - and naturally there is a great cafe selling cakes baked in Cockermouth.
It might seem like a cliche, but Wordsworth’s first home as an adult in the Lake District is one of the best run and most authentic museums in the country. It is hard to believe that some of the best poetry ever written was produced in a smoky, smelly, damp, cold and crowded former pub.
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Dove Cottage
It might seem like a cliche, but Wordsworth’s first home as an adult in the Lake District is one of the best run and most authentic museums in the country. It is hard to believe that some of the best poetry ever written was produced in a smoky, smelly, damp, cold and crowded former pub.
If you have toured Wordsworth House in Cockermouth and Dove Cottage in Grasmere you may as well collect the set. Rydal Mount was a real step up from Dove Cottage, paid for from Wordsworth’s earnings from acting as a civil servant distributing Government stamps. He created a lovely garden with looping paths that he pounded along while creating the poetry, which by the time he moved here was not very good.
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Rydal Hall Gardens
1 Rydal MountIf you have toured Wordsworth House in Cockermouth and Dove Cottage in Grasmere you may as well collect the set. Rydal Mount was a real step up from Dove Cottage, paid for from Wordsworth’s earnings from acting as a civil servant distributing Government stamps. He created a lovely garden with looping paths that he pounded along while creating the poetry, which by the time he moved here was not very good.
Neighbourhoods
With its very pretty Moot Hall, Keswick is the alternative shopping hub for the North Lakes after Cockermouth. It is especially devoted to the needs of the hiker and climber so you can buy every kind of boot and waterproof here. Also packed with restaurants and cafes, and it boasts an excellent branch of the upmarket Booths supermarket (a kind of Northern Waitrose).
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Keswick
With its very pretty Moot Hall, Keswick is the alternative shopping hub for the North Lakes after Cockermouth. It is especially devoted to the needs of the hiker and climber so you can buy every kind of boot and waterproof here. Also packed with restaurants and cafes, and it boasts an excellent branch of the upmarket Booths supermarket (a kind of Northern Waitrose).