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Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Kirkby Stephen

Hardens guides have spent 33 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

This “wonderful and cosy restaurant” in a “very smart old inn” (“on the narrow main street in Sedbergh”) serves “really interesting food (Cumbrian produce, Japanese hints here and there)” from chef Nina Matsunaga, who grew up in a Japanese expat family in Germany and settled here with her Dalesman husband and business partner James Ratcliffe six years ago. “The menu is interesting: sort of like a pub, with a few ‘eh what?’ items thrown in, some over-promising, some very good”. “Well worth a detour off the M6” – it’s also “worth staying over and doing a bit of walking in the beautiful Eden Valley”.

Price*

£62

£££

Food

Good

Service

Good

Ambience

Good

2. The Black Swan British, Modern restaurant in Ravenstonedale Fell Road - CA17

2023 Review: This “small, family-run hotel” in the idyllic Eden Valley has a “lovely restaurant” serving “good-quality locally sourced food” which includes “some very unusual dishes with lovely flavours”. The “front-of-house staff are great”, and you can make your stay more adventurous by glamping in a yurt in their private forest.