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Best Restaurants in Cumbria

The 76 best restaurants in Cumbria are shown below. Our unique ranking algorithm factors in the ratings from the Michelin Guide, AA Guide, Good Food Guide and more, to make it easy to find the best restaurants in Cumbria (including any Michelin Star restaurants in Cumbria and AA Rosette restaurants in Cumbria). Explore these award winning restaurants below via the interactive restaurant map or check out the full top 76 restaurant list. Click any restaurant to access the full restaurant details.
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Map of Best Restaurants in Cumbria

Top 76 Restaurants in Cumbria

1
L'Enclume
Cartmel
Michelin StarMichelin Star
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
10/10  (2nd in UK)
2
The Forest Side
Grasmere
Michelin Star
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
7/10  (27th in UK)
3
Hrishi at the Gilpin Hotel
Windermere
Michelin Star
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
4
Rogan and Co
Cartmel
Michelin Star
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
5
Lake Road Kitchen
Ambleside
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
7/10  (45th in UK)
6
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
7
Allium at Askham Hall
Penrith
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
8
Holbeck Ghyll
Windermere
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
9
Rothay Manor
Ambleside
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
10
Gilpin Spice at the Gilpin Hotel
Windermere
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
11
Leathes Head Hotel
Keswick
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
12
The Old Stamp House Restaurant
Ambleside
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
13
The Punchbowl Inn at Crosthwaite
Crosthwaite
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
14
The Sun Inn
Kirkby Lonsdale
Michelin Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
15
Hazel Bank Country House
Keswick
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
16
Cragwood Country House Hotel
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
17
Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel and Restaurant
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
18
Lake View Restaurant at the Inn on the Lake
Penrith
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
19
The Garden Restaurant at Rothay Garden
Grasmere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
20
Merewood Country House Hotel
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
21
The Black Swan
Kirkby Stephen
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
22
1863 Bistro
Pooley Bridge
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
23
Pentonbridge Inn
Carlisle
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
24
Lake View Restaurant at Armathwaite Hall Country House
Keswick
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
25
Storrs Hall Hotel
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
26
The Terrace Restaurant at The Ryebeck
Bowness-on-Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
27
Langdale Chase
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
28
1871 Bistro at Appleby Manor Country House Hotel
Appleby-in-westmorland
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
29
Miller Howe Hotel
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
30
The Villa
Levens
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
31
The Fell Restaurant at The Pheasant
Cockermouth
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
32
Belsfield Restaurant at the Laura Ashley The Belsfield Hotel
Bowness-on-windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
33
Lakeview Restaurant at the Lakeside Hotel
Ulverston
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
34
Lake View Restaurant at the Lodore Falls Hotel
Keswick
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
35
The House at Temple Sowerby
Penrith
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
36
Scafell Hotel
Borrowdale
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA RosetteAA Rosette
Not in Top 50
37
The Plough at Lupton
Kirkby Lonsdale
Michelin Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
38
The Dog and Gun Inn
Penrith
Michelin Bib Gourmand
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
39
Aynsome Manor Hotel
Grange-over-Sands
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
40
Borrowdale Gates Hotel
Keswick
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
41
Cedar Manor Hotel and Restaurant
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
42
Porto
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
43
The Coach House Restaurant at Ravenstone Lodge
Keswick
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
44
Briery Wood Country House Hotel
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
45
Plato's
Kirkby Lonsdale
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
46
Clare House
Grange-over-Sands
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
47
Ees Wyke Country House
Ambleside
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
48
FYR Restaurant at the North Lakes Hotel and Spa
Penrith
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
49
Oscar's Restaurant at the Abbey House Hotel
Barrow-in-furness
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
50
Pheasant Inn
Kirkby Lonsdale
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
51
Grill And Smokehouse at the The Wild Boar
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
52
The Dining Room at The Daffodil Hotel
Grasmere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
53
The Queen's Head Inn And Restaurant
Hawkshead
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
54
Derwent Restaurant at The Trout Hotel
Cockermouth
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
55
The Regency Restaurant at Macdonald Leeming House
Penrith
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
56
Stove Bar and Restaurant at the Langdale Hotel
Ambleside
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
57
The Inn At Brough
Kirkby Stephen
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
58
Borrowdale Hotel
Borrowdale
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
59
The Sun Inn
Hawkshead
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
60
George and Dragon
Clifton
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
61
The Lancrigg
Grasmere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
62
Mizu at the Lodore Falls Hotel
Keswick
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
63
Signature Restaurant at the Wordsworth Hotel
Grasmere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
64
Estuary Restaurant at The Pennington Hotel
Ravenglass
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
65
Macdonald Old England Hotel and Spa
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
66
The Conservatory Restaurant at the Crown Hotel
Carlisle
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
67
Burlington's Restaurant at the Beech Hill Hotel
Windermere
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
68
Brossen Steakhouse at the Inn On The Square
Keswick
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
69
Devonshire Restaurant at The George Hotel
Penrith
No Stars / Bib / Plate
AA Rosette
Not in Top 50
70
The Dining Room at the Oak Bank Hotel
Grasmere
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
71
The Samling
Windermere
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
72
The Bridge
Kirkby Thore
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
73
The Drunken Duck
Ambleside
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
74
Sharrow Bay Country House Hotel
Penrith
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
75
The Courtyard Restaurant at Clarence House Country Hotel
Barrow-in-furness
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50
76
Stella at Linthwaite House
Windermere
Michelin Plate
No Rosettes
Not in Top 50

Best Restaurants - Overall Top 100

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Best Restaurants - Counties & County Areas

Aberdeenshire Angus and Dundee City Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Caithness and Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty Cheshire Clackmannanshire and Fife Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Cumbria Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Devon Dorset and Somerset Dumfries and Galloway East Anglia East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire mainland East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh and Lomond East Lothian and Midlothian East Wales East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Essex Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area Greater Manchester Guernsey Hampshire and Isle of Wight Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire Inner London Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire Inverness and Nairn and Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Jersey Kent Lancashire Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire Lincolnshire Merseyside North Yorkshire Northumberland and Tyne and Wear Outer London Perth and Kinross and Stirling Scottish Borders Shropshire and Staffordshire South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire South Yorkshire Surrey, East and West Sussex Tees Valley and Durham West Lothian West Wales and The Valleys West Yorkshire

Best Restaurants - Other Counties & Major Cities

Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Bedford Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth and Poole Bradford Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot Brighton and Hove Bristol Buckinghamshire Calderdale and Kirklees Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Central Bedfordshire Central Valleys Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Conwy and Denbighshire Darlington Derby Dorset Dublin Durham East Cumbria East Derbyshire East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex Edinburgh Falkirk Flintshire and Wrexham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greater Manchester North Greater Manchester South Gwent Valleys Gwynedd Hampshire Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Inner London - East Inner London - West Isle of Anglesey Isle of Wight Leeds Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland Liverpool Manchester Medway Monmouthshire and Newport Norfolk North and North East Lincolnshire North Northamptonshire North Nottinghamshire Northumberland Nottingham Outer London - East and North East Outer London - South Outer London - West and North West Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Powys Sefton Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South and West Derbyshire South Nottinghamshire South Teesside South West Wales Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Tyneside Wakefield Walsall Warrington Warwickshire West Cumbria West Northamptonshire West Sussex Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire York

Best Restaurants - Other Cities

Aberdeen Bangor Bath Bournemouth Brighton Cambridge Cheltenham Chester Cork Drogheda Dundee Galway Guildford Harrogate Ipswich Limerick Lincoln Lisburn Londonderry Newcastle Norwich Oxford Reading Shoreditch, London Soho, London St Albans St Ives Torquay Waterford Winchester Windermere Windsor

Best Restaurants - National Parks

Brecon Beacons Dartmoor Exmoor Loch Lomond and the Trossachs New Forest North York Moors Pembrokeshire Coast Snowdonia South Downs The Broads Authority The Cairngorms The Lake District The Peak District Yorkshire Dales