2 Best Restaurants in Cartmel, The Lake District

The village of Cartmel has earned a place on England's culinary map with this ambitious Michelin three-star restaurant with rooms, where Chef Simon Rogan's innovative food incorporates long-forgotten herbs and cutting-edge techinques. The restaurant is in what was once a forge, now converted to a bright, contemporary, and airy space with dark wooden beams, stark white walls, and splashes of color. The set menu comes with up to 16 courses and may includes delights such as West Country duck with salted elderberries, and a fritter of Duroc pig and smoked eel with lovage. L'Enclume's 16 elegant rooms are in three different buildings around the village.

Husband-and-wife team Kevin and Nicola Tickle run this superb fine-dining restaurant in the village of High Newton, just outside Cartmel, which has earned a Michelin star. An imaginative set menu with dishes such as wild Cumbrian deer cooked over embers and morel cooked in bone marrow is served at lunch and dinner, and a separate Sunday menu is available until 6 pm. The building was a 17th-century inn, and the Tickles have preserved many of its original architectural features. Heft also has five double bedrooms.