White Horse Inn - South Lakeland

Lovely welcome in a cosy warm pub with open fire. The service was excellent, but no words can describe the Steak pie!!! Great taste full of beautifully cooked meat absolutely massive, with nice thick tasty gravy, I think other pubs should look at the quality presentation of the White Horse. No problem when I requested changing my mash for chips, they and the vegetable selection once again fantastic and hot. The staff are friendly with great customer service. My 2nd visit in 2 months. Highly recommend a vist for great food

We are regulars to The White Horse and always enjoy the ambiance and the food.. all excellent again tonight… The evening was made better by the wonderful service by Stevie, he’s a breath of fresh air with his sunny personality and full on efforts to make sure everyone has a great experience… thanks, see you next time

Saturday night tea out with hubby. Decided to try the White horse as close to where we are stopping. Lovely warm friendly welcome and shown to table.. Drinks ordered Keswick gold ale and lime and soda and menu provided. Hubby had the Rack of lamb special recommended by a fellow diner and I had the Steak and Ale pie. 10/10 for both. Beautifully cooked and tender was the pie. The rack of lamb was pink but super succulent. Fresh veg and potatoes. Other food looked fabulous and only saw empty plates going back to the kitchen. This place also allows dogs and all were very well behaved. Fully recommended a visit. Prices very reasonable for the quality you get.

Always great for food and today’s Sunday lunch was excellent. Unfortunately the attitude of the landlord spoilt things being rude to a family member outside and then obviously putting pressure on staff to hurry us up and clear the room for the next party whose timing should have been later. When you spend over £300 you don’t expect this! Been going for years but things have definitely changed.

We phoned ahead and booked this place having read and heard so many good things about it. We were so glad we did. It is a perfect example of a place that prides itself on really great staff, consistently good food and a well stocked bar. It is cosy and homely inside rather than fancy and was busy for a Thursday night with a variety of people from couples to families to people dining or drinking alone. Dogs welcome too. Like many pubs around here, it’s nice to be able to go for dinner in really casual clothes. We were warmly welcomed by Sam who was brilliant from the minute we walked in. Friendly, a great sense of humour, good local knowledge and really chatty, he showed a real interest in us as a family and told us about some must visit places in the area. Nothing was too much trouble. The other member of staff we thought was fab was Stevie. He’d recently come down to the Lakes from Scotland and living in Scotland ourselves, we had lots to chat about. Great banter and his recommendations on the menu were welcomed as we were struggling to choose what to have. You could tell that both Sam and Stevie really liked working here. They were great with all the diners. The menu itself was exactly as all the other reviews say. A great selection of top notch classic pub food freshly cooked, tasty and generous portions that we thought represented great value for money. You could go several times in a week whilst on holiday here and still be spoiled for choice. We eventually settled on the Lamb Henry (exceptionally good the gravy was awesome Malaysian Chicken Curry (huge portion with everything you’d want by way of sides and garnishes! and the child’s portion of Mac cheese was a perfect size for our 12 year old (some excellent chunky chips on the side were probably not necessary but they were all eaten! We had more good chat with Sam and Stevie between courses on everything from our favourite deserts to psychology to places we loved in the Lake District. This super friendly rather than transactional service is what made this pub really stand out. We were all so full but decided to share an apple pie and custard which was great. Sam had heard our daughter ask if she could steal some of our custard (she doesn’t like pie and the next thing, he comes over with a little bowl of custard just for her. So thoughtful. At £75 for all our food and several drinks for 3 of us we thought it was great given the quality and quantity. We can see why this place gets consistently good reviews it is everything you’d want in a country pub and Sam and Stevie really went the extra mile to make it a really memorable evening our favourite of the holiday so far. We will definitely be back and would give it a 10 out of 10. Highly recommend you won’t be disappointed. Apologies We didn’t get to take pics of the food as it was demolished in no time!