Comment: An excellent restaurant. We have sent a lot of guests here and every report has been excellent one of our favourites. GF options on the menu including pudding, closed Mondays.
Cafe Italia
Main Street, Windermere
Cuisine: Italian/European
Comment: Lovely cafe, lots of choice and great coffee and can also relax with wine.. Outdoor heated area. GF options.
Homeground
56 Main Road Windermere 015394 44863
Cuisine: Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch
Comment: Lovely food and coffee, also nice home-made cakes. Very friendly. GF options available including cakes
The Pig
13 crescent Road Windermere 01539 234010
Guisine: Great British food
Comment: Local produce for lovely British and continental meals, with pork in many forms. GF options including pizza.
Lakeland Cafe
Beside the train station Windermere 015394 88100
Cuisine: Contemporary
Comment: Fantastic food can have a full lunch, light bite or coffee and cake. It is always busy. Very good GF options, for food and cakes.
The Angel Inn
Helm Road Bowness, 015394 44080
Cuisine: Pub Grub
Comment: Set back on a hillside in Bowness, The Angel offers good pub food. GF options
Villa Positano
Ash Street Bowness 015394 45663
Cuisine: Italian
Comment: Great Italian restaurant, very difficult to get a table here. Lively atmosphere (Closed on Wednesdays). GF options
Lake Raj
3 Longlands Road (behind the cinema) 015394 45900
Cuisine: Indian
Comment: Small but with rally nice staff and service. Indian Fusion Cuisine, GF Aware
The Albert
Queens Square Bowness 015394 43241
Cuisine: Good Pub Grub
Comment: Good pub grub with a good selection of meals, one of our favourites. GF options
Cafe Riva
St Martin’s Square Bowness 015394 23232
Cuisine: Italian
Comment: Lovely food with a good menu and friendly staff. Excellent GF options, including pizza
Jintana
Bowness 015394 45002
Cuisine: Thai
Comment: Open since 2004, the restaurant offers diners a relaxed, friendly environment in which to enjoy freshly prepared authentic Thai food. GF options marked on the menu
Jacksons Bistro
Bowness, very end of ash Street 015394 46264
Cuisine: English, cosy bistro with a wide menu and good value for money. GF and vegetarian options.
Fellinis
Church Street Ambleside
Cuisine Modern European Vegetarian. GF and vegan options
Comment: Superb vegetarian restaurant in catering for the most discerning vegetarian palette with a distinct Mediterranean twist. Above the restaurant a state of the art digital cinema will show the latest art house and niche film productions.
Zeffirellis
Compton Road Ambleside
Italian inspired menu. Can buy a meal and cinema ticket. GFand vegetarian options
Chesters by the River: Vegan cafe
Skelwith Bridge, past Ambleside
Cuisine Mediterranean/British
Comment:Beautiful setting beside the river, lovely food and homemade cakes, gets very busy but you can sit outside. Great to combine with a walk. Fantastic GF and vegetarian options.
The Water Mill
Ings – 10 minutes drive along the 591 to Ings village. 01539 821309
Cuisine: English Pub Grub:
Comment: English pub with lots of character and a large selection of ales, from their own micro brewery. GF options
Greens Cafe
College Street Grasmere LA22 9NN
Cuisine: Bistro style, British/European. Really good menu, with lots of GF options, as well as vegetarian and vegan. Does GF scones.
Baldry’s Tea Room
Red Lion Square, Grasmere. 01539 35301
Lovely cafe, great food and cakes, as well as friendly service. GF options, including several choices of scones.
Stayed here for 3 nights with my partner and could not fault a thing. Our room was huge and well presented with tea and coffee making facilities. The room and en suite were spotless.
