Restaurants 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 preferred. 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.

A Typical Dinner Menu

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, for £50.00 (tax and service included). If you can't manage a full dinner we are very flexible and can offer a simple a la carte. You could also have dessert and coffee after you return from an evening out.

Sample menu:

First Course

Pork
Anise-braised pig's cheek with
pureé potato and langoustine

Duck
Confit duck pressing with kohlrabi spaghetti
and apple texture

Quail
Roast quail with sweet carrot,
glazed shallots, crisp pancetta

Scallops
Seared scallops with curried spices,
cauliflower tempura and ginger snap caramel

Salmon
Salmon presented three ways:
Confit, rillette and Cartmel Valley smoked

Pigeon
Poached wood-pigeon breast with choucroute
and braised baby turnips

Main Course

Lamb
Barley Bridge lamb with gratin potato,
cauliflower cheese and crispy sweetbread

Chicken
Goosnargh corn fed breast, mushroom tabbouleh,
salsify, poultry crumb

Seabass
Line-caught seabass fillet with "boulangere"
sweet carrot, cardamom and celeriac

Venison
Venison loin with braised shin,
pearl barley broth, celeriac and pickled pear

Halibut
Seared halibut, hand rolled gnocchi,
butternut squash and langoustine

Aubergine
Candied baby aubergine,
tomato cous cous, char-grilled fennel

Desserts

Pineapple
Pineapple pain perdu with marscapone and lime

Pear
Star anise and pear tatin with local honey

Chocolate
Iced chocolate and banana parfait with hazlenuts

Fig and Almond
Fig and almond tart with pecan brittle

Bread & Butter
Classical bread and butter pudding, apricot glaze

Cheese
Cheese may be taken instead of, or in addition to, the above desserts.

With dessert we suggest you try:

Orange Muscat and Flora 2002/3
Brown Bros., Australia
Not too thickly sweet like some dessert wines, and with a hint of orange.

Elysium Black Muscat 2003
Andrew Quady, Madera County, California, USA
A red sweet wine? This is great with chocolate!

Casa Silva, Semillon Late Harvest 2000
Colchagua Valley, Chile
Compliments any dessert! Rich and fruity with a gentle mouth watering finish.

Giovanni Alledrini Recioto della Valpolicella Classico 2001
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!!

Click here to see Linthwaite's full wine list.

Sample Cheese selection:

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.

Click here to see Linthwaite's cheese page.

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!