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Accommodation
Family Suite
Meals
Tariff
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Menus
The Kirkstile Inn has provided food, drink
and shelter for over 400 years.Our home cooked menu places
an emphasis on sourcing local produce:
Caterite Butchery
Crofton Cheese Farm
Cumberland Dairy
Cumbrian Legendary Ales
English Lakes
Gilcrux Trout Farm
Halls of Kendal
Hawkshead Relish
Highgate Turkeys
Riverside Foods
Winster Foods
Richard Woodall
We have also eliminated all hydrogenated
fats and oils from our cooking processes as far as we are
aware
The following is our normal menu but
please also see our Chef's daily Specials Board in the
evening this always includes fillet steak (£18.95)
For lunchtime menu click here
For evening menu click here
(Also morning and afternoon teas and coffees; sandwiches
and snacks 2 to 4.30)
Lunch 12 - 2 every day
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Savouries
Soup of the day -
homemade bread (v) £3.95
Grilled Crofton Farm goats
cheese "stumpy" – served with roasted
artichoke, red onion and sweet pepper - homemade pesto
(starter size)
(v) £5.50
'Melbreak style' black pudding - sliced
black pudding coated in a Melbreak beer batter - rich
boozy gravy (starter size) £4.95
Garlic bread - garlic and parsley buttered
baguette £3.95 |
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Tortilla wraps
Toasted white tortilla wrap served warm - small salad
Chilli chicken – crème fraiche - mixed
leaves £7.95
Roasted pepper, artichoke, red onion and feta
cheese - homemade pesto (v) £7.95
Omelettes
Served with a small salad £7.25
Spinach, Cumbrian chorizo and goats
cheese
Flakebridge cheddar, red onion and
mushroom (v)
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Baguettes/sandwiches
Whole-grain brown or white baguette - small salad
£5.95
Wholemeal or white sandwiches - small salad £4.95
Roast Lakeland beef – red onion chutney
Honey roasted ham – Melbreak chutney
Brie, tomato and pesto (v)
Locally Smoked salmon – spinach and
sunblushed tomato and cream cheese
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Baked jacket potatoes
Single jacket served with a salad garnish and one
of the following fillings £6.95
Cheddar cheese – Melbreak chutney (v)
Locally smoked salmon – spinach and
sunblushed tomato cream
cheese
Bacon and brie
Chilli chicken - crème fraîche
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Pasta and salads
Spinach, feta, ricotta and roasted vegetable lasagne
– freshly made in a béchamel sauce and layered with
pasta – crisp salad (v) £9.25
Loweswater Ploughman – Honey roasted ham or local Flakebridge red
cheese – Melbreak chutney – pickles – apple –
celery – grapes – served with home made bread (v)
- £8.25
Kirkstile carbonara – red onion, cherry
tomatoes, mushroom, pancetta and white wine cream
glazed with Parmesan - available without pancetta (v)
£7.95
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Mains
Lakeland steak and ale pie -short
crust pastry Melbreak bitter - finished with its own
thickened sauce – vegetables – homemade chips or potatoes
Large £9.25 ; small £7.25
Cumberland tatie pot - Lakeland lamb stew with
vegetables, potato and black pudding – pickles
£7.95
Kirkstile stir fry –chilli, cashew and
seasonal vegetables– cajun and soy sauce -
wild rice - salad (v) £9.50
Deep fried hake fillet coated in Kirkstile beer
batter – tartare sauce – homemade chips – mushy peas
£10.95 |
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Side orders
Crispy potato wedges – barbeque
dipping sauce £2.50
Mixed leaf salad with vinaigrette or side
salad £2.50
Garlic bread - garlic and parsley buttered
baguette £3.95
Triple cooked homemade chips £2.25
New potatoes £1.75
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Local cheeses
Melbreak chutney and oatcakes
served with a selection of the following cheeses: £6.75
Tovey - a semi soft, naturally mould ripened,
continental style goats cheese. Plenty of
flavour
Flakebridge -a smooth hard pressed, red cheese with a
firm flaky texture and a subtle tangy taste
Blue Whinnow - Creamy smooth bodied cheese with
delicate blueing
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vegetarian
If you have specific dietary requirements please
mention it to our staff and we will do our best to
accommodate. |
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Desserts
Traditional hot sticky toffee
pudding - light toffee
sauce - English Lakes vanilla ice cream
Chocolate and Kendal Mint cake mousse –
Kendal mint cake set cream - hazelnut shortbread
Cheesecake of the day – whipped cream or ice
cream
Fruit crumble of the day – custard,
whipped cream or English Lakes vanilla ice cream
All desserts are homemade £5.25
English Lakes ice cream – chocolate, vanilla
or strawberry normal £3.80; small £2.70
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Evening 6 - 9 every day
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Starters
Soup of the day -
homemade bread (v) £3.95
Grilled
Crofton Farm goats cheese
“stumpy” – served
with roasted artichoke, red onion and sweet pepper -
home made pesto (v) £5.75
'Melbreak style' black pudding
- sliced black pudding coated in a Melbreak beer
batter – rich boozy gravy £4.95
Locally smoked trout - watercress, beetroot
and spring onion salad - creamed horseradish
dressing £5.50
Rabbit, duck and pheasant terrine - pear chutney - toasted
wholemeal bread £5.50
Cumbria on a plate - Woodall's air dried ham,
Cumbrian chorizo, smoked salmon and local Blue Whinnow
- Melbreak chutney - oatcake biscuits - homemade
Cumberland sauce £6.50
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Main courses
Lakeland steak and ale pie -short
crust pastry - Melbreak bitter - finished with its own
thickened sauce – vegetables – homemade chips or potatoes
small £7.25; large £9.25
Homemade game pudding
– gently steamed with suet pastry – shallot and
Madeira sauce - vegetables - homemade chips or potatoes
£10.95
4 hour slow roasted Lakeland
lamb shoulder – red wine and rosemary sauce -
sunblushed tomato and coriander mash and vegetables
£13.95
Pan fried lemon and cajun salmon fillet -
chive mash - parsley and white wine cream -
vegetables £10.95
Pan-fried Cumbrian turkey escalope - with
sage and wrapped in Woodall's air-dried ham - carrot
and swede purée - homemade pesto - buttered new
potatoes £11.50
Spinach, ricotta,
feta and roast vegetable lasagne - freshly made in
a béchamel sauce and layered with pasta - crisp salad
(v) £9.25
Kirkstile stir-fry –
chilli, cashew and seasonal vegetables stir-fried –
Cajun and soy sauce – wild rice – salad (v) -
£9.50
Mediterranean risotto - arborio rice -
roasted sweet peppers, red onion, artichoke and
butternut squash glazed with parmesan (v)
£10.50 |
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Side orders
Mixed leaf salad with
vinaigrette or side
salad £2.50
Garlic bread - garlic
and parsley buttered baguette £3.95
New potatoes £1.75
Triple cooked homemade chips £2.25
V = vegetarian
If you have specific dietary requirements please
mention it to our staff and we will do our best to
accommodate.
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Desserts
Traditional hot sticky toffee
pudding - light toffee
sauce - English Lakes vanilla ice cream
Cumberland Rum Nicky - a traditional 17th
Century hot Cumbrian sweet made with dates, orange,
ginger and rum with a lattice pastry topping - rum and
raisin ice cream
Hawkshead blossom honey pannacotta - served
with fruits of the forest compôte
Cheesecake of the day – whipped
cream or ice cream
Fruit crumble of the
day – custard, whipped
cream or English Lakes vanilla ice cream
Chocolate and Kendal Mint
cake mousse
- served with Kendal Mint cake set cream - hazelnut
shortbread
All desserts are homemade £5.25
English Lakes ice cream
– chocolate, vanilla or strawberry £3.80 (small
£2.70) |
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Local cheeses
Melbreak chutney and oatcakes
served with a selection of the following cheeses: £6.75
Tovey - a semi soft, naturally mould ripened,
continental style goats cheese. Plenty of flavour
Flakebridge -a smooth hard pressed, red cheese with a
firm flaky texture and a subtle tangy taste
Blue Whinnow - Creamy smooth bodied cheese with
delicate blueing
These cheeses are partnered perfectly with Croglin
Vampire (8% abv) a Doppelbock beer brewed at Cumbrian
Legendary Ales, our brewery in Hawkshead.
One bottle shared between two is very popular (330
ml. - £2.85).
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Kirkstile Inn, Loweswater, English Lake District, Cumbria, CA13 0RU, England, UK,
Tel: +44 (0) 1900 85219 | Fax: +44 (0) 1900 85239
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