The best restaurants, cafés, pubs, farm shops, breweries, distilleries and food producers in the Lake District, from Keswick and Ambleside to Kendal and Cartmel.
Brothers Ryan and Craig Blackburn have earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand for The Schelly, their easy-going sister restaurant to The Old Stamp House on Ambleside's Church Street.
Created by Sarah Nelson in Grasmere in 1854, Grasmere Gingerbread now has a second home on Hawkshead's Main Street, serving gingerbread ice cream and locally roasted coffee.
The Lakes Distillery has unveiled Signature, a sherry-led single malt bottled at 47% and created by whiskymaker Sarah Burgess, marking a new chapter for English whisky in Cumbria.
Grasmere's Forest Side was one of just seven UK restaurants to receive a new Michelin Green Star in 2026, recognising a kitchen built around its own chemical-free garden.
Simon Rogan's L'Enclume in Cartmel retained three Michelin stars and a Green Star in the 2026 guide, cementing the village's place among the world's great dining destinations.
With roots on the Isle of Man in 1840, Quiggin's has been making sweets in Kendal since the 1870s and gave the world its first chocolate-covered mint cake in 1975.
Mark and Maria Whitehead's Hawkshead Relish Company grew from a Lake District café into a celebrated maker of chutneys and condiments, with more than 80 Great Taste Awards to its name.
Founded by John Bryson after the Second World War, Bryson's of Keswick has grown from a single bakery into a much-loved tearoom and craft bakery famed for Lakeland Plum Bread.