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Surrounded by England's most magical countryside and bread so good it could be a main course: Inside the Michelin-starred Lake District restaurant that's on a roll MailOnline Travel's Ted Thornhill dines at Source at Gilpin Hotel This Relais & Chateaux property nestles amid lush scenery east of Windermere READ MORE: Best UK cities and towns for a 2024 staycation are named By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor Published: 08:25, 23 May 2024 | Updated: 08:25, 23 May 2024 e-mail View comments At most restaurants the bread is a side hustle – but here it's listed as one of the courses, the second of six. Here is Michelin-starred Source at Gilpin Hotel, a Relais & Chateaux property nestled amid some of the Lake District's most magical scenery, just east of Windermere. And it has every right to elevate the status of its 'Parker House Roll' - because it's glorious.

Sitting at one of the restaurant's round, elegant wooden tables, I'm in a mild state of ecstasy as I bite into a freshly baked mass of warm doughy exuberance flavoured with wild garlic and glazed in fermented honey. The icing on the cake, so to speak, is a generous serving of cultured butter sprinkled with smoked sea salt. Michelin-starred Source (above) is at Gilpin Hotel, a Relais & Chateaux property nestled amid some of the Lake District's most magical scenery, just east of Windermere Read More You've been eating in restaurants all wrong! Etiquette guru reveals dining out do's and don'ts, from how to wipe your mou.



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