Kirkby Stephen, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

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”.