Guidebook for Cumbria
Food Scene
Excellent food and service with attention to detail. The menu changes regularly and you'll be spoilt for choice. There is also an excellent vegetarian menu and vegan options as well.
19 locals recommend
The Sourdough Pizza Co
Excellent food and service with attention to detail. The menu changes regularly and you'll be spoilt for choice. There is also an excellent vegetarian menu and vegan options as well.
Serving really excellent soups and salads plus a hot dish, eat in or take away. Also does nice cake and coffee.
26 locals recommend
Babaganoush
27 Finkle StServing really excellent soups and salads plus a hot dish, eat in or take away. Also does nice cake and coffee.
Deja-Vu Corner 124
124 StricklandgateFrench Bistro with a good menu and well cooked tasty food.
Vegetarian cafe by the river serving freshly cooked food and cakes. Lots of vegan options. Good service and family friendly with a children's play area. Seating available outside by the river.
17 locals recommend
Waterside Cafe and Food Bistro
Vegetarian cafe by the river serving freshly cooked food and cakes. Lots of vegan options. Good service and family friendly with a children's play area. Seating available outside by the river.
Farrers is a very quaint coffee shop and cafe. They roast their own coffee beans here in Kendal and also have a wide variety of teas on offer as well as plenty of interesting treats in the shop.
11 locals recommend
Farrers Tea & Coffee House
13 StricklandgateFarrers is a very quaint coffee shop and cafe. They roast their own coffee beans here in Kendal and also have a wide variety of teas on offer as well as plenty of interesting treats in the shop.
Excellent artisan bakery making and selling fresh bread daily. They also run bread making courses at least once a month where you can learn to make sourdough, wholemeal and foccacia.
6 locals recommend
Staff Of Life Bakery
Excellent artisan bakery making and selling fresh bread daily. They also run bread making courses at least once a month where you can learn to make sourdough, wholemeal and foccacia.
The home of Growing Well. Have a walk around the wooded site then lunch or tea and cakes in the cafe.
Lots of local foods available in the shop as well as crafts, gifts and mementos.
54 locals recommend
Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop & Café
The home of Growing Well. Have a walk around the wooded site then lunch or tea and cakes in the cafe.
Lots of local foods available in the shop as well as crafts, gifts and mementos.
Handsome Brewery. Open to Take Away only.
Joey's Cafe
Excellent riverside cafe with an excellent shop. Sells a thoughtful variety of beautifully designed gifts, keepsakes, items for the home etc.
It’s a great stopping point on numerous, lovely walks but bring a bag for all your lovely purchases.
66 locals recommend
Chesters By The River
Excellent riverside cafe with an excellent shop. Sells a thoughtful variety of beautifully designed gifts, keepsakes, items for the home etc.
It’s a great stopping point on numerous, lovely walks but bring a bag for all your lovely purchases.
The Masons Arms
The Brown Horse Inn
Drinks & Nightlife
Serving local ales and craft beers from the Fell Brewery. Nice atmosphere, friendly service.
13 locals recommend
Fell Bar
3 Lowther StServing local ales and craft beers from the Fell Brewery. Nice atmosphere, friendly service.
Serving local ales and craft beers from Bowness Brewery. Excellent atmosphere and friendly service. They often have street food events such as Thai, Burger, Vegan and Pizza nights. Has a nice garden and outdoor seating at the front.
32 locals recommend
Factory Tap
5 Aynam RdServing local ales and craft beers from Bowness Brewery. Excellent atmosphere and friendly service. They often have street food events such as Thai, Burger, Vegan and Pizza nights. Has a nice garden and outdoor seating at the front.
Bootleggers Bar
24 Finkle StBar which often has live music. Late licence
Ruskins Bar
12-14 StricklandgateBar in the centre of town with a late licence. Sometimes has live music
Friendly local pub overlooking a green which hosts a Folk Music Night on Thursdays.
The Riflemans Arms - Kendal
4-6 GreensideFriendly local pub overlooking a green which hosts a Folk Music Night on Thursdays.
The Barrel House
Aynam RoadEntertainment & Activities
The Brewery Arts Centre has a bar, cafe and restaurant. Has a theatre and music venue. There are 3 cinema screens showing the mainstream movies as well as the warehouse cinema where you can sit on a squashy chair with a glass of wine and watch the latest art house films.
90 locals recommend
Brewery Arts Centre
122A HighgateThe Brewery Arts Centre has a bar, cafe and restaurant. Has a theatre and music venue. There are 3 cinema screens showing the mainstream movies as well as the warehouse cinema where you can sit on a squashy chair with a glass of wine and watch the latest art house films.
Lakeland Wildlife Oasis
Ullswater Steamers
Grisedale BridgeZeffirellis
2 Compston RdSightseeing
Beautiful sunsets with views across the town. The castle ruin, its moat and the castle hill are well worth a ramble.
59 locals recommend
Kendal Castle
SunnysideBeautiful sunsets with views across the town. The castle ruin, its moat and the castle hill are well worth a ramble.
Bowness-on-Windermere
Museum with scenes from Beatrix Potter stories beautifully realised in model form.
103 locals recommend
The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction
Crag BrowMuseum with scenes from Beatrix Potter stories beautifully realised in model form.
Parks & Nature
Beautiful place for a walk with far reaching views across the Lyth Valley and out to Morecambe Bay. Apparently you can spot Blackpool Tower on very clear days. The Pale barked, wind stunted trees and scrubby juniper bushes give the landscape a hobbity feel. There is a vertiginous drop down to the valley on the right.
41 locals recommend
Scout Scar Mushroom
Underbarrow RoadBeautiful place for a walk with far reaching views across the Lyth Valley and out to Morecambe Bay. Apparently you can spot Blackpool Tower on very clear days. The Pale barked, wind stunted trees and scrubby juniper bushes give the landscape a hobbity feel. There is a vertiginous drop down to the valley on the right.
Short walk up a steep, rocky hill, fun for kids. Fantastic views
10 locals recommend
Gummers How Carpark
Short walk up a steep, rocky hill, fun for kids. Fantastic views
Tarn Hows
High Dam Tarn
Grizedale Forest
RSPB Leighton Moss
Storrs LaneConiston Boating Centre
Lake RoadArts & Culture
This museum houses a permanent collection of art by local and not so local notable artists but also has a packed diary of events and of excellent exhibitions by significant artists. Paula Rego, Lucian Freud, Walter Sickert and David Bomberg are some. We're lucky to have it.
49 locals recommend
Abbot Hall Art Gallery
KirklandThis museum houses a permanent collection of art by local and not so local notable artists but also has a packed diary of events and of excellent exhibitions by significant artists. Paula Rego, Lucian Freud, Walter Sickert and David Bomberg are some. We're lucky to have it.
Essentials
Local supermarket in the centre of town, within easy walking distance of the apartment.
24 locals recommend
Booths, Kendal
Wainwrights YardLocal supermarket in the centre of town, within easy walking distance of the apartment.
Plumgarths Farm Shop & Cafe