Gate Inn

Pub Details

Address: Yanwath

Cumbria

CA10 2LF
Telephone: (01768) 862386

Opening Times: Weekdays
12 - 11

Location

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Licensee information

Licensee name: Matt Edwards

Free house

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Emphasis on imaginative food but with local beers and thoughtful wines, a pubby atmosphere and warm welcome from the helpful staff

Handy for Ullswater and a civilised break from the M6, this is an immaculately kept 17th-c dining pub, much loved by our readers. There's a cosy bar of charming antiquity with country pine and dark wood furniture, lots of brasses on the beams, church candles on all the tables and a good log fire in the attractive stone inglenook. Friendly, courteous staff serve real ales on handpump from breweries such as Cumbrian Legendary, Hesket Newmarket and Tirril, and they keep around a dozen good wines by the glass, quite a few malt whiskies and maybe Weston's cider. Two restaurant areas have oak floors, panelled oak walls and heavy beams; piped music. There are seats on the terrace and in the garden. They have a self-catering cottage to let.

Good Pub Guide Food

Using top quality local produce, free-range and organic where possible, the excellent food at lunchtime includes sandwiches, seafood ceviche, a platter of smoked meats, fish, cheese and home-baked bread with chutney and pickles, squash, rosemary and pine nut risotto, and venison burger with plum chutney, with evening choices such as steamed mussels with creamed leeks and scrumpy cider, braised belly of saddleback pork stuffed with apricots and spinach forcemeat with a sweet potato purée and coriander and lemon couscous, and wild bass fillet with sunblush tomato and black olive potatoes.