Lovely Lakeland pub. Dog friendly. Great fish & chips (weird mushy peas!!!)read more

We were staying in a caravan park just down the road and needed a place to eat in the evening. We…read morecame across this delightful pub within a few minutes of searching. We spent the remainder of our holidays here, every evening. Nestling by a brook full of eels. The pubs dog, Jasper, loved to just stand in the cooling water on the hot evenings that we experienced this July. Sufficient room to sit outside with plenty of tables. Service is second to none. Professional, efficient and, more to the point, friendly. Great selection of real ales, my favourite was the Cromwell. Now to the reason for frequenting this hostelry, the food. A reasonable menu taking into account the position of this pub. A good varied choice of fresh seafood, burgers, curries and steaks. We tried most of them and they all were extremely tasty. All cooked to order. Great mussels in white wine. Behind the bar is a blackboard describing their Naga 'Viper' curry made with, 'officially', the hottest chilli pepper. Underneath is written 'Curries ordered 528, curries eaten 400' LOL. I love hot curries but, even I, would not attempt it. We hope to make a return visit next year. Many thanks to the 'guvner', his wife, the staff (especially the chef and kitchen staff) for making our short holiday break a total delight. See you again.

This place is awesome! If you are looking for an authentic British pub with alot of character and…read moregood ale you gotta come here.

Large car park, spacious bar area and what looked like a well appointed children's play area (too…read morewet on the evening in question to check it out). A couple of ales on handpull and a varied food menu, from which I enjoyed the bacon steak with chips and egg. My partner's portion of fish and chips was a very generous one. Very good local artwork on the walls & for sale.

Best find on holiday ever!!…read more Set in a beautiful little village with a huge village green with loads of parking round and about (although im sure that on a mid summer sunny day parking may be somewhat difficult!). The pub has a bar area and a restaurant area - we only ever went into the bar as you could eat int here and it was really cosy (dogs are also allowed!). The staff were incredibly friendly and chatty (lets face it, Yorkshire, particularly North Yorkshire folk are possibly the most friendly on the planet - i challenge you to disprove this!). The food was INCREDIBLE. Nothing fancy pants, just really good food, VERY big portions (trust me on this, you dont need three courses - choose your weapon of starter or dessert to go alongside your main - we made the mistake one night and 1) couldnt eat it all and 2)pretty much rolled home). We spent an evening in the pub, had a meal and then sat playing card games - we felt incredibly welcome. So welcome that we ended up visiting three times in a week long holiday. You cant really get a better recommendation than that can you??

I could say that the food was divine andfot for the gods and the staff waited on me like a king,…read morebut let's face it, its a pub and you get what you pay for. The food like most Cumbrian pubs was very good, the staff were polite and helpful. I would go back again but with so many places to try out ill probably try somewhere else first. I like variety. One good thing to note about the pub is that in the summer it will get a lot of sun outside

Such a warm and welcoming place! Excellent food, excellent service, excellent beer!!! We plan our…read morevacations around their beer festivals and have returned time and time again. HIGHLY recommend!!!

Venturing to the Lakes is always exciting for me - as a Southerner, it's not somewhere I've…read morefrequented very often, so I never tire of getting on the train and suddenly being propelled into the countryside. On our last trip, it was a celebratory affair with my boyf's dad's birthday almost upon us (30, again?) and we were all looking forward to our trip to The General Burgoyne. Walking in, it's cozy and there are plenty of bits and bobs to look at, including a rather fetching if not slightly out of place fox tail. We were quickly seated and our orders taken - in fact, we felt well looked after throughout the evening, with all requests being seen to quickly and with a smile. Starters are the real highlight here. My goats cheese bon bons, served with pine nuts and a kind of olive tapenade, were worth shouting about; creamy and well balanced, I could have had them twice over. Everyone's dishes were beautifully presented and involved interesting flavour combinations - the chicken and sweetcorn "soup" for example included chicken and sweet chilli wontons, with tiny cylinders of chicken mousse. I wasn't feel too adventurous with my main, so went for the rump steak medium-rare. It was perfectly colours, but a touch chewy, especially the last few bites. The twice cooked chips were really tasty, but the onion rings were a flop, greasy and lacking in anything exciting. In hindsight, perhaps I should've gone for the Mediterranean vegetable offering - I'm just a sucker for a grill! We all shared two portions of the award winning Peanuts and a Pint, which was interesting to say the least. Not much of it was to my taste, but the presentation was stunning and I can completely see why it won. The Old Tom jelly was really interesting and worth a try by any real ale fans. Well worth the trip; a culinary adventure with traditional roots.

The General Burgoyne Inn is a great place to have a drink either in the rather cosy bar where…read moreanyone will talk to you, or at a table on the the patio. Either way it will be difficult to resist the gorgeous smells coming from the kitchens and the other customers food. The speciality here has always been 'pie and peas'; satisfying and tasty. The restaurant here has a very good reputation, however I hav'nt been yet so can't say. Back to the drinks - you can get Carling, Stellar, Strongbow, Guiness and Hartley's XB on draught here, which may be reason enough to visit. The place was built around 1631 so the building itself is great. There are 25 parking spaces, and very little on the road.

Absolutely the best pub in Ambleside! Good ale (again, I'm not obsessed, I swear!), dog-friendly…read more(again, you're proably sensing a theme here), attracts similarly-minded 'active in the day, find a good place to drink in the evening' kinda people. Hidden away off the tourist track slightly, no airs or graces, just a decent pint. Some brilliant parties, usually unplanned!

Definately the best and friendliest pub in Ambleside. Its located on Kirkstone Rd at the bottom of…read morethe struggle. There is a great selection of regular and locally brewed beers, the staff are very friendly and has a lovely relaxed atmosphere. They don't do food as in meals though there is usually a selction of homemade sandwiches and ppork pies on the bar. There's also a small seating area outside at the back of the pub, dogs are welcome too.

The drunken duck is a favorite of our friend who has come here for 40 years, starting with golf…read morebuddies, then with family and best of all to celebrate weddings, and great moments. Relax here, the staff is ready to make this luxury even better with whatever you need! Directions to many local hikes or hot coffee on the picnic tables. So much fun to have, there are gardens, strolls, patios and quiet libraries too. This is the most beautiful place I've ever stayed because I can get some rest, unwind and enjoy the great outdoors. Yesterday there was a local marathon- yes!- great runners charged past into the local town of Ambleside. Hikers and dog lovers are here too. National parks close by... what a get-away we are having!!

Such a charming pub and inn right in the middle of the Lakes District. There's a glorious view…read moreoverlooking the mountains right in front of the venue (with picnic tables if you'd like to sit and enjoy it with a pint). Brunch, lunch, dinner, and bar snacks are served at the Drunken Duck, and I'd only really recommend booking for dinner. The beer and cider are mostly local I believe. We did the curry bowl to share (vegetarian and VERY tasty - kind of wish I could get the recipe), scampi, fries, and tartare sauce (those fries are to die for!) and the lamb kofta, hummus, flatbread, and mint yoghurt (great for sharing and noshing). There's plenty of parking on the side of the inn. The inside is decorated beautifully (very insta-worthy), so maybe consider renting out for an event. And yes, you can bring your dog to dinner/drinks.

Nice compact pub with a good selection of beer , top notch NZ Sauvignon Blanc wine , good service…read moreand comfortable seating

The King's Head is one of the oldest pubs in Ulverston. Inside the pub is the original well covered…read morein glass in the floor. the atmosphere is warm, in the evening, but I prefer sitting in the garden in the afternoon. It is the only pub left in the center of Ulverston which has a bowling green behind it. The pub doesn't do food, but it doesn't need to, they have a character pub with a good garden

Wow, I can't believe it's been three years since the last review of this place. Hopefully that…read moremeans it's being kept a secret...in which case I'm going to be found majorly guilty of breaking the silence. On the recommendation of a friend who lives about half an hour from Ulverston, we reserved a table for four here and wandered down from Virginia House Hotel (http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/virginia-house-hotel-ulverston) where we were staying. From the outside it looks just like your typical whitewashed country pub. Though I'd hardly call Ulverston town centre bonefide 'countryside', the place still had an immediate charming effect on us as we approached. Once inside you're met with a pub-sized 'shrine' to the town's most famous son. Photos, screen shots, figures and memorabilia from Laurel & Hardy's history on the screen are everywhere. It gets the set-up just right - managing not to look like an obsessive fan's homage to Stan, but just enough to pay tribute to his fame. The sizeable bar has at least six handpulls on at any time. Most are from the local area but their range stretches further afield aswell. What was great was having the option of getting a tray of three thirds in case you couldn't choose between them. The menu is pretty comprehensive and we saw the portion sizes were, well, sizeable, so opted for mains and desserts. I had the 10oz sirloin steak cooked medium rare and it was incredibly juicy. The stars on the plate were the onion rings though, beer-batter crispiness - sheer heaven. Lots of chunky chips and coleslaw with salad (you could opt for potatoes and veg instead) and then it was on to the puddings. Ice cream flavours that we'd never heard of before. Coupled with sticky toffee pudding I had 'Thunder and Lightning' flavour. I'll keep what it was like a secret so you have to try it yourself ;) Lovely, friendly staff, great ales and immense food. It certainly wasn't 'Another Fine Mess.'

The Stan Laurel Inn is a good all-round local pub. Paul and Trudi have had it for two years…read more The food is scrumptious. On Friday I had a big piece of fish in crispy beer-batter, with chips which I could tell were home cut, and extremely tasty mushey peas. That was the special for a fiver. They get their ingredients from the best greengrocer and butcher in town. Given the name there is a fair bit of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia in the bars. The pub is Thwaite's, but always has six real ales including from the nearby Ulverston Brewery. They also do bed and breakfast for £30 p.p. per night.