The Lake District’s Sharrow Bay Hotel is to relaunch next year under new ownership, with highly-rated restaurant Allium transferring from nearby Askham Hall. Opened in 1948, Sharrow Bay was famous as Britain’s first country-house hotel, but has been closed since 2020. The hotel, which overlooks Ullswater, was run for 50 years by Brian Sack and […]
Prominent chef Hrishikesh Desai, formerly of Gilpin Lodge in the Lake District, has taken up the role of chef-patron at Farlam Hall, a boutique hotel on the other side Cumbria beyond Carlisle. Hrishikesh, a 2009 Roux scholar, left the Gilpin in Windermere on Boxing Day, having run its kitchens for seven years. By the end […]
First the bad news – Cartmel’s estimable foodie mecca L’Enclume will close for one week on 7 December for a few quick improvements and staff hols (well, they deserve it don’t they?). But here’s the good news: During that week the focus will shift to Rogan & Co (also situated in the Cumbrian town of […]