Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Kirkby Stephen
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Kirkby Stephen restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 2 restaurants in Kirkby Stephen and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Kirkby Stephen restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. The Black Bull Inn
British, Modern restaurant in Sedbergh
44 Main Street - LA10
“Lots of Asian touches from chef Nina” (who grew up in a Japanese ex-pat family living in Germany) and “superb Asian-inspired nibbles” pique culinary interest in this cosy pub with rooms on the main street that Nina Matsunaga runs with her husband James Ratcliffe, which features “innovative menus made with local ingredients”. Top Menu Tip – “A newish addition was Korean tomato soup, the best tomato soup I’ve ever had!”; “Crispy Korean beef, shiso & sesame. Very good spiced beef, wrapped in shiso leaf, battered and fried, with soy and sesame dip. Vanilla ice cream with N25 caviar. Different!”
2. The Black Swan
British, Modern restaurant in Ravenstonedale
Fell Road - CA17
This Victorian inn has long been run by the Dinnes family, and the interior is “full of interesting nooks and crannies and curios”, with “a truly nostalgic, traditional feel as opposed to the sham nostalgia so often fabricated”. It makes “an excellent place for a delicious Sunday lunch”, and one reporter this year “particularly appreciated the attention paid to vegetables”. Further boon: it’s “good value if you stay overnight” (the most adventurous option being to glamp in a yurt in their own slice of forest by the river).
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