Restaurants Lake District & Dinner, bed and breakfast Lake District - Our Dinner menu

Linthwaite is a truly romantic setting for a restaurant - with candlelit tables it is informal and unstuffy, yet discreet and professional. Dinner is available from 7.00 pm with last orders at 9.00 pm. There isn't a strict dress code but smart casual is a good guide. Before dinner enjoy an aperitif in the lounge or conservatory and enjoy the breathtaking views over Lake Windermere and the Lake District fells, before dining in one of the Lake District's most romantic award-winning restaurants. Good Food Guide recommended restaurant. For dinner, bed and breakfast rates please click here.

There is an excellent daily changing table d'hôte menu, comprising four courses. Enjoy canapés before dinner with pre-dinner drinks, and after dinner cafetière coffee with petit fours. Four course dinner and canapés - £52.00 (tax and service included) coffee and petit fours £3.95. If you are staying with us and you can't manage a full dinner we are flexible and can offer a simple a la carte. You could also have dessert and coffee after you return from an evening out. Click here to download this sample menu »

Sample menu:

Rabbit

Mosaic of rabbit confit, agen prune purée, Melba toast  

Crab

Passion fruit and brown crab bavarois, dressed white meat, saffron soused fennel

Quail

Roast breast of quail, salad of English asparagus, roasted hazelnuts

Tuna

Sesame and coriander crusted tuna loin, wasabi mayonnaise, lime and soy dressing

Scallops

Pan roasted diver scallops, pineapple salsa, smoked bacon crumb

Duck

Honey roast breast of Goosnargh duck, crispy confit, tamarind purée, ginger scented jus Sea Bass Wild line caught sea bass, herb spaetzle, fennel confit, Vermouth sauce

Beef

Roast fillet of Cumbrian beef, globe artichokes, morel mushrooms, red wine jus

Cod

Roast fillet of cod, mussel and clam risotto, vanilla scented fish soup

Veal

Loin of Cumbrian rose veal, braised shoulder, honey glazed sweetbread, Madeira sauce

Nougat

Nougat parfait, white wine poached pear, toasted almonds

Raspberry

Warm raspberry soufflé, bitter chocolate sorbet

Carrot

Warm carrot cake, cream cheese icing, candied orange, carrot jellies, crystallised walnuts

Chocolate

White chocolate and Tonka bean cream, vanilla yoghurt sorbet, griottine cherries

Strawberry

Baked egg custard, soup of Gariguette strawberries, wild strawberry sorbet

Cheese may be taken instead of, or in addition, to the above desserts £8.95 if taken as an extra course

A red sweet wine? This is great with chocolate! £25.00 half bottle, £8.50 per 125ml glass

Exudes a dusty apricot scent, full of lively concentrated fruit flavour with a long, luscious finish. Making it a very individual and unusual style of wine, in a nutshell a true star in its class.

£40.50 half bottle, £13.95 per 125ml glass

Giovanni Allegrini Recioto della Valpolicella Classico 2005, Valpolicella, Veneto, Italy

This rare fabulous dessert wine is made from grapes that have been dried for up to 5 months prior to pressing, then allowed to mature for 24 months in French oak. This wine is sweet yet has an incredibly rich and long balanced flavour, certainly a wine to meditate over at the end of your meal, expensive but worth it!!

£69.00 500ml bottle, £17.75 per 125ml glass

Muscat Beaumes de Venise 2007, France

Luscious, full, fruity dessert white from the Rhone made from a black-skinned variety of Muscat that brings added bouquet.

£27.50 375ml bottle, £9.50 per 125ml glass

Colosia, Pedro Ximenez

An amazing smell of treacle and an intense flavour of raisins and molasses – this is absolutely fabulous, especially with chocolate or vanilla ice cream!

£34.50 375ml bottle, £11.75 per 125ml glass

Cumberland Farmhouse

An unpasteurised traditional English cows' milk cheese also suitable for vegetarians. Matured in cloth, it develops a full, round flavour and a smooth buttery texture.

Keldthwaite Gold

This is a distinctive golden-rinded soft cheese, hand-made from the pasteurised milk of Jersey cows, for a smooth, creamy texture and taste.

St. James

Made at Holker Hall estate in Cumbria by Martin Gott, this superb unpasteurised ewe's milk cheese is rind washed in water from Holker's own spring, before being laid out to mature for three months on pine boards.

The cheese is then matured at Churchmouse Cheeses for a further month.

Smoked Kirkham's Lancashire

Award-winning unpasteurised Lancashire by Ruth Kirkham from Goosnargh near Preston. Lightly smoked over oak chippings for up to 3 days for a distinctly nutty flavour.

Blacksticks Blue

This pasteurised cheese is hand-made in very small batches and tended with care, particularly during its teperamental eight week maturation stage. The result is an outstanding cheese combining a deliciously creamy, smooth yet tangy flavour, with a superb melt in the mouth texture.

All cheeses are accompanied by Linthwaite's home-made apple and sultana chutney, oatmeal biscuits, caraway crackers and pecan loaf.

Adjourn to the lounge, bar or conservatory where you can finish off the meal with a Cafetière of freshly brewed coffee, espresso or cappuccino all served with home made petit fours. Enjoy the moonlight reflecting on Lake Windermere or the sun setting over the Lake District fells - depending on the time of year!