My wife and I ate there last night as we were staying in a local B&B The River Garth, great place…read more Anyway we ordered fish and chips with mushy peas and it was wonderful. The proprietor served us and was very nice. At a near table some people had steak pie, and liver and bacon with onions and it smelled and looked tasty.

Lovely Lakeland pub. Dog friendly. Great fish & chips (weird mushy peas!!!)read more

Great beer!! Most of it local real ale. There is always a mixture. changes every couple of days so…read morevisiting often is a must. Downstairs is small and seating encourages you to make new friends with the person next to you. Upstairs is more comfortable with sofas and more room but the bar is downstairs :-( Ive seen live music music here. Which is very intimate. A local favourite and a good way of sampling some great local beers if you're visiting

Having taken an inadvertent Real Ale Tour of the English Lake District, I will declare Moo Bar to…read morestock the best beers in all of Cumbria. The selection changes as the finer examples are drunk, so come often to sample the cream of the crop of Real Ales and other high end brews.

Nice local pub in center of town. I had the Tirril Eden Valley Pale Ale. Very pale session beer…read morebrewed 5 miles away and full of flavor - loved it even though my preference is dark barley wines.. Food looked delicious and oversized contributing to a nice traditional English pub. Give it a look.

Unexpected to find the ales here were all Belhaven but then as that's owned by Greene King maybe it…read moreshouldn't have been so surprising. A pretty ordinary pub but in no way unpleasant for that. Good for taking the weight off your feet and listening in to the locals' chat at the bar.

proper fireplace, good choice of drinks available with friendly staff. family run business that's…read moreowned by local people. which is good to see this little pub owned by a local couple. Been here several times for a few drinks, sometimes they have music playing. Over time they have been decorating the pub throughout, and making the pub look really nice.

A popular pub for locals & tourists alike 'The Aggie' stocks a good range of real ales (5 or 6…read moretaps) and has a menu with something for everyone. It's right beside the station and we ate & drank well here before catching the train back to Carlisle.

A good place for summer evening drinks as it's got one of the only beer gardens in Penrith -…read moreadmittedly it overlooks the car park but is also opposite the castle and the view's a pretty minor detail since there's not many to choose from! It also's got a friendly atmosphere, isn't too expensive and is right by the station so I'd stop here if I had some time to kill before getting the train. The food's ok but maybe a bit pricey for what you get.

Good food and good beer, bar staff friendly, all in all a good pub..read more

A large sports bar serving a decent pint of Thwaites proved to be a noisy setting in which to…read morewitness the ineluctable self-destruction of Newcastle United. The rot set in when Cockney carpetbagger Ashley prematurely dismissed the uninspiring but effective Sam Allardyce. A series of mind-boggling purchases by Dennis 'Googly-Eyes' Wise sealed the Magpies' fate. Shearer's late intervention added a frisson of interest but could never turn this collective sow's ear into anything like a silk purse. Aston Villa v Newcastle United was one on the worst football matches I have ever seen and I speak as a committed (I use the word advisedly) Toon supporter - God knows what it must have looked like to a neutral. What about the pub, you ask? It's a theme pub; the theme is 'it's a pub'.

Gourmet pub grub…read more This is a pub, restaurant and inn rolled into one. We had dinner in the pub as it's dog friendly but it's the same menu as the restaurant. All the food is sourced locally, with the meat and veg coming from the attached estate, Askham Hall. The menu is a little bit foodie fancy, but it does it very well without getting carried away and losing sight of making the customer happy. For example the "cocoa puffs" on my incredbly tender venison, puffs of chocolate potato that just worked. My sister-in-law had puffs of crackling with her pork that were deliciously light but with all the flavour of crackling. I had a delicious twice baked cheese souffle to start that melted in my mouth like the best omelette ever. It would make perfect winter comfort food. My pudding was apple cheesecake with lavender meringue, salted caramel and apple sorbet. The flavours were amazing and very well balanced. Even the salted caramel which I don't generally rate that highly. I wanted to go back for lunch the next day. Sadly it's not cheap so I would have needed a special offer to justify it. The service was very helpful and pleasant.

Well, this is a pub, but it's the restaurant I'm reviewing. Wow! We stayed at a bed and breakfast…read more11 miles away. The proprietor said: we have some good local pubs, but there's a world class (well, he used some other British phrase that I can't recall) restaurant in Penrith. So we went. Like I said: wow. Locally sourced meat, game (watch for buckshot) and vegetables. We had rabbit pate and a tomato "tart" for appetizers, venison and pork loin for mains, fig tart for dessert. Couldn't be better. And the beer? Out of this world. Nothing like British bitter from the cask.

Lovely and clean, great food and welcoming staff…read more However, on a Saturday night it's a bad place to stay. It's right in the centre of town so when the clubs shut there is a lot of commotion and hard to sleep.

Arrived late-ish on a Saturday night, which in retrospect was foolish. We didn't realize this was…read moresuch a "destination" so it was heaving when we arrived with our very young son. We didn't eat in the restaurant as it was so packed and I think our baby would of exploded from the noise, if it had just been us it would of been fine. Penrith is so small that there were takeout options very close so it was fine. Room and bathroom were nice if a bit impersonal; signage to tell you not to mess with the air con and to use the strings to open the curtains. Which I totally understand, they don't want to fix things , however the typed, laminated and then cello taped to the wall makes it loose it's charm a little. A welcome booklet with it detailed inside would of been much nicer. Breakfast options were a little limited but did the job. Staff were nice. All in all I feel there's a little too much hype because of a Gordon Ramsey connection.