The Restaurant and Bar

Head out towards Ullswater Road and you'll find yourself at North Lakes Hotel, where The Restaurant and Bar does proper food without trying too hard. It's the sort of place that works equally well for a date night or bringing your parents when they visit—the kind of versatility that's actually quite rare round here. You're looking at contemporary British cooking that respects good ingredients, the sort of dishes that don't need clever names to justify themselves. The setting is refined without being stuffy, with views that remind you why you live in the Lakes in the first place.