Fishermans Retreat
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Hervey Magnall
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One of the best restaurants in North West England serving a wide variety of freshly prepared, quality local produce, which includes some of the world’s finest dry aged steak from our own herd of prize winning Charolais cattle.
Our fantastic whisky bar is one of the best stocked bars in the world, with over 500 Scottish single malt whiskies, all available as a dram or bottle from our in house shop. If whisky is not for you we have a fine selection of award winning real ales and lagers always on tap.
In addition, our wine list features a broad range of wines to suit any taste or budget. The wines are sourced from around the new world with a strong Australian influence and most are available by the glass. We also boast an extensive range of champagne befitting any celebratory toast.
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Good views from friendly remote-feeling pub with hundreds of whiskies, all for sale by the bottle in new shop; trout and some meats on menu come from their own land
Feeling much more remote than it really is - mainly because of the final single-track drive - this stone-built pub has fine views of the surrounding farmland and trout lakes, from which the family that run it get the fish, beef, and venison used in their food. But what really makes it stand out is the incredible range of malt whiskies, currently numbering around 500. Almost half are ranked on shelves above the bar counter, each new one added as the collection grew, but all are available in the new whisky shop in a corner of the main room; this also sells wines, and half the fun is looking at the price stickers on some of the rarer or vintage bottles. They do occasional tutored whisky tastings. The bar has something of the feel of a mountain lodge, with its bare stone walls and beamed ceilings, though the wallpaper around the fireplace adds a more civilised touch. A similar dining room opens off. Five well kept beers such as Black Sheep, Timothy Taylors Landlord and changing beers from Moorhouse, Phoenix and Skipton, and a good wine list, with the emphasis on new world ones; particularly friendly staff. There are a few picnic-sets outside. Over the next year they plan a few changes, adding a new dining room so the main room can become a lounge for drinkers. You can arrange coarse fishing on the lakes.Good Pub Guide Food
Home-made food includes soup, field mushrooms filled with sautéed sweet balsamic leeks, crushed hazelnuts and blacksticks blue cheese, black pudding and queen scallops in a smoked bacon and lancashire cheese sauce, fish pie, steak pudding, chicken breast stuffed with black pudding and brie, burgers, fresh fish, and daily specials like roast pork belly on celery mash with sweet red onion and celery jus. They don't take bookings (though with notice can arrange suckling pig for groups).
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