The food lover’s guide to the best cuisine in Britain has been unveiled.
Featuring more than 2,000 restaurants, The AA has unveiled The Restaurant Guide 2020.
All eateries featured in the guide have been awarded Rosettes for culinary excellence by the AA’s professional inspectors.
An incredible 67 Cumbrian restaurants are featured in the guide this year, with Windermere alone boasting 15 entries.
The Cumbrian restaurants are: Ambleside: Rothay Manor Hotel, The Old Stamp House Restaurant; Lake Road Kitchen; Appleby Manor Hotel & Garden Spa; Allium at Askham Hall, Askham; Abbey House Hotel & Gardens, Barrow; Bassenthwaite: Lake View Restaurant; Ravenstone Lodge Country House Hotel; Borrowdale: Borrowdale Gates Hotel; Hazel Bank Country House; The Leathes Head; Lodore Fall; Bowness: The Ryebeck; Belsfield Restaurant; The Cottage in the Wood; Braithwaite; Crown Hotel, Carlisle; Cartmel: Aynsome Manor Hotel; L'Enclume; Rogan & Co Restaurant; George and Dragon, Clifton; The Trout Hotel, Cockermouth; The Punchbowl Inn at Crosthwaite; Stove at Langdale Hotel & Spa, Elterwater; Inn on the Lake, Glenridding; Clare House, Grange; Grasmere: The Wordsworth Hotel & Spa; Rothay Garden Hotel; The Daffodil Hotel & Spa; Forest Side; Hawkshead: The Lancrigg; The Queen's Head Inn & Restaurant; The Sun Inn; Brossen Steakhouse, Keswick; Kirkby Lonsdale: Sun Inn Restaurant; Pheasant Inn; Plato's; The Inn at Brough; The Villa Levens; Plough Inn, Lupton; Ees Wyke Country House, Near Sawrey; Lakeside Hotel Lake Windermere, Newby Bridge; Penrith: Devonshire Restaurant, FYR; Pentonbridge Inn, Pentonbridge; 1863 Bar Bistro Rooms, Pooley Bridge; The Pennington Hotel, Ravenglass; The Black Swan, Ravenstonedale; Scafell Hotel, Rosthwaite; The Restaurant at Temple Sowerby; Macdonald Leeming House, Watermillock; Windermere: Porto; Hrishi at Gilpin Hotel & Lake House; Holbeck Ghyll Country House Hotel; Beech Hill Hotel & Spa; Storrs Hall Hotel; The Wild Boar Inn, Grill & Smokehouse; Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel & Restaurant; The Samling; Macdonald Old England Hotel & Spa; Cedar Manor Hotel & Restaurant; Briery Wood Country House Hotel; Merewood Country House Hotel; Cragwood Country House Hotel; Gilpin Spice and Langdale Chase.
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