The Jumble Room

The Best Restaurants in the Lake District, Cumbria | Eater London

"Take a food tour of the world while dining in Grasmere’s joyful and quirky Jumble Room, Andy and Chrissy Hill’s restaurant which they opened in 1996 in what was once a junk room. For mains they offer the likes of siomai dim sum parcels, filled with pork and Morecambe bay shrimps (with a touch of ginger); local lamb rump, rubbed in rose harissa and Persian spices; and Malayan seafood curry, with chunks of fresh fish and Madagascan black tiger prawns, coddled in the restaurant’s spiced Asian broth. Back to Britain for good old fish and chips, a big favourite. Check out the large paintings downstairs, the jazz photographs upstairs and the album covers in the loos. And for luxury in the Lakes, try the couple’s B&B called Randy Pike (www.randypike.co.uk)." - Christian Dymond