Amid the Peak District ’s glorious green dales and chocolate-box villages are a slew of knockout gastro pubs and countryside restaurants. With around 90 per cent of the Peak District made up of farmland and around 1,800 farms within the national park alone, the region’s best places to eat (naturally) tap into the Peak’s rich bounty of produce. Galloway beef from the 70-acre Dale Cottage Farm in Wessington; lamb from the Chatsworth Estate and wild trout from the River Wye.
There are Artisan ales from Eyam Brewery, cheeses from Hartington Creamery and venison from the Haddon Estate. Chefs can be found foraging in hedgerows and ancient woodlands for ceps and sorrel, and placing hyper-local ingredients front and centre of the best Peak District menus. The best part is, although the Peak District has long been a sanctum for walkers and lovers of grandiose country houses, it remains largely under-the-radar as a foodie destination.
From the dazzling Garden Room at Callow Hall near Ashbourne to the The Blind Bull in a 12th-century inn, here’s our pick of the best restaurants in the Peak District. The Blind Bull’s owner-manager Raab Dykstra-McCarthy and head-chef Luke Hawkins have reinvigorated this 12th-century inn in bucolic Little Hucklow. Self-proclaimed as the fifth oldest public house in Britain, The Blind Bull remains charmingly olde worlde, all exposed beams, open hearths and stamp-size windows.
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