cumbria places (showing 100 of 176 results)
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Grasmere Independent Hostel
Broadrayne Farm Grasmere LA22 9RU
Backpackers and hikers rarely get it as good as this – Grasmere’s indie hostel pampers budget travellers
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Applegarth Villa
College Road, Windermere, LA23 1BU
Gorgeously chic rooms and suites in a gem of a Victorian building in Windermere
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YHA Keswick
Station Road Keswick CA12 5LH
Best budget digs in Keswick are at the refurbished riverside hostel
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Randy Pike
Low Wray LA22 0JP
There are boutique B&Bs – and then there’s the glorious, one-of-a-kind Randy Pike
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Brimstone Hotel
Ambleside Cumbria England United Kingdom LA22 9JD
A beautiful boutique hotel in the heart of the Lakes.
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Ellergill Guest House
22 Stanger Street Keswick CA12 5JU
Ellergill is a real find and a real bargain – neither of which are easy to find in Keswick
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Jumble Room
Langdale Road Grasmere LA22 9SU
Many regular visitors to the Lakes love the Jumble Room best of all restaurants
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Woodman's Huts
Woodman's Shepherd's Huts, Haverthwaite, Cumbria LA12 8AB
Beautiful handmade shepherd's huts in the heart of the South Lakes.
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YHA Ambleside
Waterhead Ambleside LA22 0EU
If there is a better hostel location in Britain we’d love to know about it
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Another Place, The Lake
Watermillock Ullswater Cumbria CA11 0LP
A beautiful, contemporary bolthole in the heart of The Lakes.
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YHA Hawkshead
Ambleside Cumbria LA22 0QD
A wide range of accommodation options in a perfect Lake District setting.
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Hidden River Cabins
Hidden River Cottage Longtown Carlisle Cumbria CA6 5TU
Luxurious log cabins by a river in an ancient woodland.
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YHA Windermere
Bridge Lane Troutbeck Windermere Cumbria LA23 1LA
One of the most scenically sited hostels in England, with stunning lake and mountain views.
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Grasmere Glamping
Broadrayne Farm Grasmere Cumbria LA22 9RU
A cosy and very well-equipped glamping pod for two in the heart of the Lake District
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The Quiet Site
Ullswater Near Watermillock Cumbria CA11 0LS
This hideaway camspite above Ullswater is a real family favourite.
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Shank Wood Log Cabin
Longtown Carlisle Cumbria CA6 5TU
A log cabin with hot tub in the woods by a teeming trout river.
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YHA Black Sail
Ennerdale Cumbria CA23 3AY
Generations of walkers have made a grateful beeline for Ennerdale's majestically sited Black Sail hostel.
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YHA Coniston Holly How
Far End Coniston Cumbria LA21 8DD
Only minutes from the village and Coniston Water, this traditional Lakeland house YHA hostel is close to good walks for all levels.
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YHA Patterdale
Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 0NW
A super-stylish hostel situated in the heart of the Lake District National Park.
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Good Life Lake District Cottages
Elterwater Ambleside Cumbria LA22 9HS
A selection of Lake District holiday cottages in stunning scenery that are perfect for walkers, families and couples alike.
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Thorney How
Grasmere Cumbria LA22 9QW
The first hostel in England owned by the YHA, and now independent.
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Lakeside Hotel
Lakeside Newby Bridge Cumbria LA12 8AT
Windermere’s finest lakeside hideaway sits at the southern end of England’s largest lake
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Wanderlusts
Low Wray Campsite Ambleside Cumbria LA22 0JA
Gypsy Caravan holidays in the Lake District - both mobile and stationary.
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YHA Borrowdale
Longthwaite Borrowdale Keswick Cumbria CA12 5XE
Large hostel situated in the midst of some of the Lake District's most beautiful scenery.
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YHA Skiddaw Bunkhouse
Bassenthwaite Cumbria CA12 4QX
England's highest, most remote hostel lies more than an hour along a mountain track from the nearest car park.
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Low Sizergh Barn
Low Sizergh Farm Low Sizergh Kendal LA8 8AE
Farm shop where the tea room looks down onto the milking parlour and the shop stalls are housed in ancient byres
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Boltongate Old Rectory
Boltongate Ireby Cumbria CA7 1DA
A perfect, off-the-beaten-track gem, ideal for couples looking to get away from it all
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The Plough
Cow Brow Lupton LA6 1PJ
Frankly, it isn't fair to have to choose a room at the Plough – they are all gorgeous.
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Punch Bowl Inn
Crosthwaite Lyth Valley LA8 8HR
The very model of an updated country inn – you may never want to leave your gorgeous room
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Dove Cottage
Town End Grasmere LA22 9SH
William Wordsworth’s home is one of the biggest honeypots in the Lakes, an essential stop for literature lovers
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Coffee Kitchen
40 Challoner Street Cockermouth CA13 9QU
Cockermouth’s café scene shifted up a notch with the opening of Coffee Kitchen
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Crake Trees Manor
Crosby Ravensworth Penrith CA10 3JG
A glamorous farmhouse B&B beautifully set in the rolling Eden Valley countryside. It’s big on boutique style.
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Dog & Gun
2 Lake Road Keswick CA12 5BT
Simply a cracking pub – dog-friendly, with ancient wooden benches, roaring fires and a selection of local beers.
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Drunken Duck Inn
Barngates Ambleside LA22 0NG
People drive from far and wide to visit the Drunken Duck, a welcome oasis on a rustic hill
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Long Valley Yurts
Ambleside Cumbria LA22 0JA
Moroccan-style yurts in an idyllic location.
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Moss Grove Organic
Grasmere LA22 9SW
Eco-friendly hotels don’t come much more glamorous than Moss Grove
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Alston House Hotel
Townfoot Alston Cumbria CA9 3RN
A deep night's sleep in England's highest market town.
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Go Ape!
Grizedale Forest Hawkshead LA22 0QJ
Release your inner superhero with a tree-top adventure in Grizedale Forest.
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Dalegarth
Hassness Estate Buttermere CA13 9XA
This perfectly sited Alpine-style guesthouse sits in its own gardens on the shores of Buttermere
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George Fisher
2 Borrowdale Road Keswick CA12 5DA
If there’s a name in the Lakes that’s synonymous with outdoors stores, it’s George Fisher
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Yewfield
Hawkshead Hill LA22 0PR
The owners of Zeffirellis and Fellinis in Ambleside also offer rooms in their desirable Victorian Gothic mansion
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Kirkstile Inn
Loweswater CA13 0RU
You really have to be looking for the Kirkstile to find it – tucked away up tiny lanes at the back of Loweswater
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Great Langdale Campsite
Great Langdale LA22 9JU
Best sited campsite in the Lakes? In the world? Many keen hikers and campers think so
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Hole in t’ Wall
Fallbarrow Road Bowness on Windermere A23 3DH
Best pub in Bowness? That would be the oldest, the Hole in t’ Wall
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Footprints Lodge
White Cross Bay Holiday Park Ambleside Road Windermere Cumbria LA23 1LF
Log cabin close to the shores of Lake Windermere
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Howbeck Lodge Farm
Hesket Newmarket Wigton Cumbria CA7 8JN
Do as much or as little as you please.
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Lakeland Motor Museum
Old Blue Mill Backbarrow LA12 8TA
The Lake District’s newest blockbuster museum traces the history of the automobile. Dull? Not on your life
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Wild Boar Inn
Crook Windermere LA23 3NF
Away from the lake, the über-rustic Wild Boar springs a surprise.
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Brantwood
Brantwood Coniston LA21 8AD
John Ruskin’s magnificent country home rises above the shores of Coniston Water
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Brewery Arts Centre
122 Highgate Kendal LA9 4HE
The main cultural hub for Kendal and the south Lakes is the excellent Brewery Arts Centre
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Hawkshead
Hawkshead LA22 0NS
If there’s a village in the Lakes that epitomises the word ‘picturesque’, it’s Hawkshead
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Honister Slate Mine
Honister Pass Borrowdale CA12 5XN
England’s last surviving working slate mine has become something of a local adventure centre
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Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway
Haverthwaite Station LA12 8AL
Take the steam train from Windermere’s Lakeside for a gentle four-mile puff through the woods and along the river
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Low Wray Campsite
Low Wray Ambleside Cumbria LA22 0JA
A fabulous woodland and waterfront campsite ] on the western shore of Windermere.
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Stanley House
Eskdale CA19 1TF
The folks at the Woolpack Inn in Eskdale also run this eco-friendly B&B nearby
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Sticklebarn
Great Langdale LA22 9JU
The only National-Trust-run hostelry in the country, with magnificent fell and valley views
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Waterhead
Waterhead Ambleside LA22 0ER
For designer style on the lake, the Waterhead pretty much has things sewn up
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Whinlatter Forest Park
Whinlatter Pass Braithwaite CA12 5TW
England has only one real mountain forest – Whinlatter, a few miles out of Keswick en route to Buttermere
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Allan Bank
Allan Bank Grasmere LA22 9QB
An unsung Wordsworth house – living history at its best.
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The Black Swan
Ravenstonedale Kirkby Stephen Cumbria CA17 4NG
In the beautiful Howgill Fells, this is everything you expect of a country pub with rooms.
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Drunken Duck Inn
Barngates Ambleside LA22 0NG
Rooms at the Drunken Duck offer a real mix of experiences but all with the benefit of a top-notch gastro-pub
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Helm Crag
Grasmere Cumbria LA22
Got kids and a spare hour or two? Get them up Helm Crag for a Lake District adventure,
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Hooked
Ellerthwaite Square Windermere LA23 1BU
Hooked's mission? To bring a litle bit of Aussie fish cuisine to the Lakes
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Lake District Visitor Centre
Brockhole LA23 1LJ
The national park’s main visitor centre and HQ occupies a fabulous lakeside mansion on Windermere.
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Staveley Mill Yard
Mill Yard Staveley LA8 9LR
There’s a thriving set of craft and foodie businesses housed in buildings in the former mill yard at Staveley
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Ullswater Steamers
Pier House Glenridding CA11 0US
Those in the know visit Ullswater, the beautiful northeastern lake traversed by century-old steamers
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Wasdale Head Inn
Wasdale Head Cumbria CA20 1EX
English country inns don't come much more end-of-the-road than the Wasdale Head, sited under England's highest mountains
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Wild Boar Inn
Crook Windermere LA23 3NF
The Lakes' first restaurant smokehouse adds fascinating flavour to anything from fish platters to wild boar chops.
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Wordsworth House
Main Street Cockermouth CA13 9RX
William Wordsworth’s former family home, sited in the handsome Georgian town of Cockermouth
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World of Beatrix Potter
Bowness-on-Windermere LA23 3BX
Bowness's – if not the Lake District’s – top visitor attraction, themed to within an inch of its fluffy bunny life
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Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Abbot Hall Kendal LA9 5AL
Kendal’s Georgian riverside mansion, Abbot Hall, contains a lovely art gallery with excellent changing exhibitions
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Alpaca Centre
Snuff Mill Lane Stainton CA11 0HA
Want to know what you can make from the wool of an Andean alpaca?
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The Barefoot Shepherdess
Shacklabank Farm Firbank Sedburgh Cumbria LA10 5EL
Guided walks across the Cumbrian Fells and Yorkshire Dales.
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Blackwell
Blackwell Bowness-on-Windermere LA23 3JT
The most beautiful private house in the Lake District? It’s not too much of an accolade for Blackwell
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Buttermere
Buttermere CA13 9XA
The gentle name is no preparation for one of the region’s most dramatic lakes, ringed by high peaks
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Cartmel Cheeses
1 Unsworth Yard Cartmel LA11 6PN
Cartmel Cheeses boasts up to fifty British, Irish and French cheeses, all from independent artisan producers.
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Castlerigg Stone Circle
Castle Lane Keswick CA12 4TE
The standing stones at Castlerigg, high above Keswick, are one of the Lake District’s most spectacular sights
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Cote How Organic
Rydal Grasmere LA22 9LW
"Everyone comes for the scones" is the popular refrain, and many happily claim them to be the best in the world.
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Cumberland Pencil Museum
Southey Works Keswick CA12 5NG
Keswick’s pencil museum turns out to be a whole lot more interesting than you had bargained for
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Grange Bridge Cottage Tea Shop
Grange Borrowdale CA12 5UQ
Grange Bridge Cottage enjoys an idyllic riverside location, just off the road through Borrowdale
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Grasmere
Grasmere LA22 9SW
Grasmere is best if you can stay the night, when something of the village’s charm resurfaces
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Howe Keld
5–7 The Heads Keswick CA12 5ES
There’s a real sense of place at David and Valerie Fisher’s boutique guesthouse
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Japanese Garden
Giggle Alley Woods Eskdale Green CA19 1TW
One sight that definitely won’t be on any usual tourist itinerary to the Lakes is the hideaway Japanese Garden
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L’Enclume
Cavendish Street Cartmel LA11 6PZ
To complement its Michelin-starred food, Cartmel’s L’Enclume also offers a dozen beautiful rooms
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More?
Mill Yard Staveley LA8 9LR
A great little artisan bakery and café serving breakfast, sandwiches, snacks and good coffee
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Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry
Abbot Hall Kendal LA9 5AL
For a different view of lakeland history, visit the reconstructed house interiors and workshops at Abbot Hall
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No. 15
15 Victoria Road Penrith CA11 8HN
Penrith’s nicest and artiest coffee lounge is also a fine place for lunch
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The Plough
Cow Brow Lupton LA6 1PJ
A country inn that's a cut above, the Plough at Lupton is handily en route to Kendal and the Lakes
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Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
Ravenglass CA18 1SW
For a great day out for kids of all ages, don’t miss the steam trains of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
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Rheged
Redhills Penrith CA11 0DQ
Rheged visitor centre is anchored around its 3D cinema screen, which brings in a lot of custom on rainy days
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Theatre by the Lake
Keswick CA12 5DJ
Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake is one of England’s most innovative small theatres
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Willowford Farm B&B
Willowford Farm, Gilsland, CA8 7AA
Perfect B&B for Hadrian’s Wall
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Windermere Lake Cruises
The Piers Bowness-on-Windermere LA23 3HQ
Boat trips on England’s largest lake, Windermere, depart from the piers in the lakeside village of Bowness
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Wray Castle
Low Wray Ambleside LA22 0JA
Victorian-era Wray Castle is Windermere's finest attraction and a stunning all-day family visit.
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Ann Tysons
Wordsworth Street Hawkshead LA22 0PA
For character-filled accommodation in the chocolate-box village of Hawkshead, look no further than Ann Tyson's
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Apple Pie
Rydal Road Ambleside LA22 9AN
Ambleside’s funkiest café doesn’t just do pies – though they are supreme, whether sweet or savoury.
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Augill Castle
South Stainmore Kirkby Stephen Cumbria CA17 4DE
An honest-to-goodness, straight-up castle, in the best Victorian Gothic style, now an upmarket B&B.
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Badger Bar
Glen Rothay Hotel and Badger Bar, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9LR
Awesome Lake District pub.
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Café-Bar 26
26 Lake Road Keswick CA12 5DQ
It might be chucking it down outside, but it’s always bright and cheerful inside Keswick’s original café-bar.
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Chesters By The River
Skelwith Bridge Near Ambleside LA22 9NJ
Perfect for a drink by the river or a lazy lunch, Chesters is a snappy, buzzy, almost metropolitan space
