The AA Restaurant Guide is an esteemed guide to the best quality restaurants up and down the UK, granting establishments ‘rosettes’ as awards.

The AA states: “AA Rosettes are solely awarded by our hotel and restaurant Inspectors, and external influences from hotels, restaurants or other guides are not taken into account. About 10% of restaurants nationwide are of a standard that is worthy of one Rosette and above.”

The 2023 edition of the Restaurant Guide is out now, with 11 Cumbria restaurants receiving between 3 and 5 rosettes.

Cartmel’s L’Enclume received the only 5 rosette award on the list, with a further 3 receiving 4 rosettes and 7 gaining 3.

This year’s guide noted the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the hospitality industry, noting that establishments continue to face challenges.

It writes: “Restaurants continue to face many challenges, dealing with acute staffing shortages, significant inflation in food prices and other rising operating costs, such as the well documented huge increases in energy bills.

“That’s why it’s so important that we continue to support all these fantastic establishments, whose kitchen and front-of-house teams work so tirelessly to give us such amazing experiences.”

Full list of Cumbria restaurants on the AA Restaurant Guide 2023

5 rosettes

  • L’Enclume, Cartmel

4 rosettes

  • Allium at Askham Hall, Penrith
  • The Forest Side, Grasmere
  • HRiSHi at Gilpin Hotel, Kendal

3 rosettes

  • Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside
  • The Old Stamp House restaurant, Ambleside
  • Rothay Manor Hotel, Ambleside
  • Rogan & Co Restaurant, Cartmel
  • Pentonbridge Inn, Pentonbridge
  • Henrock, Windermere
  • The Samling, Windermere

 

The AA Restaurant Guide is available to buy now, you can find it on the Waterstones website here.