Windermere

[Rage85]

Can anyone suggest any nice restaurants/cafes/things to do in this area?

Thank you please

Family of 4 with a dog.

 

[JBuk]

Things to do:

take a drive along Wrynose and Hardknott pass, take a trip on the Ratty train, grab some food in a local pub
Drive
Rent a small electric boat at Bowness bay and have a little ride around he lake
take a cruise on one of the ferry boats down to Lakeside, have a wander around the aquarium, take the steam train to Haverthwaite
Drive over the Kirkstone pass and visit Glenridding , climb Helvellyn, drink beer in a local afterwards or keep on going until you get to Aira Force , take a stroll
Have a wander around some of the villages close by- Ambleside, Grasmere - buy some gingerbread or other ‘ginger’ related stuff
Buy local chocolates - there’s a few shops - Friars (ambleside & keswick) and Huttons (bowness on Windermere) I always buy chocs when I visit
Have a day in Keswick - eat cow pie - fish and chips from the Keswickian - loads of places to drive or walk around there -Newlands pass to Buttermere or down the Borrowdale Valley then go up the Honnister pass at Seatoller - visit the skate mine or do the Via Ferrara, the drive down to Buttermere - keep going past Buttermere village and past Crummock water , drive back towards Keswick along the Whinlatter pass , take a walk around the forest or do ‘Go Ape’(also a Go Ape near Windermere)

Can’t help with food much as I tend to go to Jintana Thai restaurant each time I’m there but there’s loads of decent places , I did once have Afternoon Tea outside at the Laura Ashley hotel overlooking the lake , was pretty good but if there’s a wedding on they probably won’t be open to the public

 

[Raymond Lin]

Things to do:

take a drive along Wrynose and Hardknott pass, take a trip on the Ratty train, grab some food in a local pub
Drive
Rent a small electric boat at Bowness bay and have a little ride around he lake
take a cruise on one of the ferry boats down to Lakeside, have a wander around the aquarium, take the steam train to Haverthwaite
Drive over the Kirkstone pass and visit Glenridding , climb Helvellyn, drink beer in a local afterwards or keep on going until you get to Aira Force , take a stroll
Have a wander around some of the villages close by- Ambleside, Grasmere - buy some gingerbread or other ‘ginger’ related stuff
Buy local chocolates - there’s a few shops - Friars (ambleside & keswick) and Huttons (bowness on Windermere) I always buy chocs when I visit
Have a day in Keswick - eat cow pie - fish and chips from the Keswickian - loads of places to drive or walk around there -Newlands pass to Buttermere or down the Borrowdale Valley then go up the Honnister pass at Seatoller - visit the skate mine or do the Via Ferrara, the drive down to Buttermere - keep going past Buttermere village and past Crummock water , drive back towards Keswick along the Whinlatter pass , take a walk around the forest or do ‘Go Ape’(also a Go Ape near Windermere)

Can’t help with food much as I tend to go to Jintana Thai restaurant each time I’m there but there’s loads of decent places , I did once have Afternoon Tea outside at the Laura Ashley hotel overlooking the lake , was pretty good but if there’s a wedding on they probably won’t be open to the public

Which Jintana Thai restaurant? There are 2 apparently.

 

[JBuk]

Which Jintana Thai restaurant? There are 2 apparently.

yeah one is in Ambleside and the other Bowness on Windermere, both owned by the same company , they’re only about a 10 minute drive between them

I’ve been to both and they were both pretty much the same , I found the Ambleside one more comfortable but have been to the Bowness one more often because we just seem to spend more time in that area

There’s also a couple more Thai restaurants next to the one in Bowness , we tried one of them ‘Siam Thai’ and my missus (a Thai ) gave it a big thumbs down but I found it ok, the other we haven’t tried yet but it’s not been there long

 

[Raymond Lin]

yeah one is in Ambleside and the other Bowness on Windermere, both owned by the same company , they’re only about a 10 minute drive between them

I’ve been to both and they were both pretty much the same , I found the Ambleside one more comfortable but have been to the Bowness one more often because we just seem to spend more time in that area

There’s also a couple more Thai restaurants next to the one in Bowness , we tried one of them ‘Siam Thai’ and my missus (a Thai ) gave it a big thumbs down but I found it ok, the other we haven’t tried yet but it’s not been there long

I was going to ask which one is more authentic, I’m going to take someone who is half Thai there next month in the area and after a week in the UK I think she’ll be dying for some rice dishes so surprising her with something familiar would be good.

Which one does your missus prefer?

 

[JBuk]

I was going to ask which one is more authentic, I’m going to take someone who is half Thai there next month in the area and after a week in the UK I think she’ll be dying for some rice dishes so surprising her with something familiar would be good.

Which one does your missus prefer?

probably the one in Bowness but the food was pretty much the same, my wife is very particular about Thai food and it has to be very authentic , the last time she wasn’t impressed with the Pad Thai she ordered

I’ve always enjoyed the food there although there’s far better places but they’re in other cities

 

[Raymond Lin]

probably the one in Bowness but the food was pretty much the same, my wife is very particular about Thai food and it has to be very authentic , the last time she wasn’t impressed with the Pad Thai she ordered

I’ve always enjoyed the food there although there’s far better places but they’re in other cities

Oooh, we are also going to Edinburgh, Bath, York and Oxford…are they in any of those? lol