Slates Coffee & Kitchen — Restaurant in England

We're from London visiting the Lake District and taking in the beautiful scenes when we got hungry. We googled near by places to eat and Slates came up. The staff and chef were all really friendly, the place was really clean with modern vibrant decor.

Now lets talk about the food. We ordered the 6oz Prime Beef Burger with cheese and bacon and the Langdale Hottie 10" stone bakes Pizza - freshly grilled chicken, chorizo, tomatoe, mozzarella, mixed chillies, roasted Bell pepper and rocket!

My wife and split both meals. I started with the pizza and loved it, you could taste how fresh the ingredients were, no added salt or condiments were necessary- I almost didn't want to share it. Then my wife cut the burger in half and placed my share on my plate. Oh my goodness! This burger, was succulent, full of flavour, meaty and simply amazing. Straight away I knew this was gonna make top 5 of my burger list - and I'm a burger guy, I've bitten into buns all over the world - but before I had finished my half I had to stop and ask myself if I've ever had a better burger, no answer came back, so this must be number 1!

The fact that the burgers are homemade right there in the restaurant goes some way toward explaining what made this burger so special.

This review is a lot longer than I expected it to be but I am genuinely thinking of staying here till I'm hungry again so that I can buy...

We're regulars at Langdale, so it was interesting to see the old Elterwater post office is now a cafe.

We went in after a smaller hike and were very happy. I had a loverly buttermilk chicken burger and my partner had a chicken pesto sandwhich. My burger was fantastic and we both thought the chips were top notch.

Very friendly staff, reasonable prices. The only real downside is that its mostly indoor seating, with a small amount of outdoor seating but I can't imagine there is much they can do about that.

I would happily eat here again and recommend it to anyone stopping...

I have passed Slates on many occassion. But finally paid them a visit (just opened when i arrived in Elterwater after a walk along from Skelwith bridge passing Skelwith force along the way)... Anyhoo.. Slates is an absolute tremendous place if you fancy some quality food & their Beans on Sourdough with a fried duck egg was deliciously superb & fills a hole nicely. Slates is well worth a visit or for me a return visit... Update.. the return visit has happened & a seriously scrumcious...