Threlkeld Restaurant Guide

“Whether you’ve just been for a hike up Skiddaw (just to the north) or a gentle stroll around the lake” (Derwentwater, just to the south), restore your spirits at this buzzing bistro, whose adventurous and keenly priced dishes (aka “fellpots”) make it “the best thing in town” according to its fans. The owners’ local mini-empire also includes cocktail and burger bar The Round, set on the storied fell-running ground of Keswick’s Market Square (where many loops start from the door) and, as of 2022, Fellpack House (FKA The Hazeldene), a nine-bedroom boutique hotel on ultra-pretty street The Heads.

On the lower slopes of Skiddaw, England’s third highest mountain, a luxury mid-Victorian Lakes hotel that “never fails to impress”. The restaurant has been relocated over the years to amplify the “wonderful views”, and it continues to please with its “good variety of dishes” (from Sunday lunch to salads and Cumbrian rarebit) that are also “exceptional value for money”.

This “really buzzy place in the centre of Keswick” offers a “great choice of freshly cooked and delicious burgers, with the option to change the bun for salad”. Part of the locally owned Fellpack operation, it even convinces doubters – “I’ve reached an age where burgers are not for me anymore... unless I’m at The Round”.