31 May 2012 No Comments
It’s going to be a busy weekend with the Keswick Beer Festival starting on Friday 1st June and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations taking place throughout the whole bank holiday weekend but to top it off the Kings Arms’ monthly beer club will still be running on Monday 4th June! More
28 May 2012 No Comments
Street Parties in 1977 for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. Thirty five years ago the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee. Over a million people lined the streets of London, thousands having camped out over night in the rain, millions more tuned into watch the events on TV and many celebrated with street parties. In true patriotic spirit the Union Jacks were flying like a sea of red, white and blue! More
18 May 2012 No Comments
Stephen Wilcock, Master Sommelier and General Manager at the Borrowdale Hotel, loves to share his passion for wines and here he tells us the importance of a grapes’ skin colour in producing a good rosé.
“There is only one region in Europe that can mix red and white wine to make rosé and that is Champagne, all other regions make rosé wine from red grapes. In the Middle Ages red and whites were grown together so there was no red or white just really a vin Gris.
If you squeeze a red grape the juice that will emerge will be clear as the colour of wine comes from the skins.
Blush wine came on the market from America where the demand for white wine was outstripping red white so a blush wine was created to be as pale as possible. A problem with a stuck fermentation also resulted in blush wine being slightly sweet and this has now become a trend.
There are some serious rosé available such as Oeil de Perdrix from Switzerland with a colour of the eye of a partridge in death throes, or the rosé wines of Provence
We used to drink a lot of rosé such as Mateus Rosé and rosé d’anjou which were a good introduction to the world of wine.
Hopefully rosé will be taken seriously and not just a half-way house when we cannot decide whether to have white or red wine!”
If you would like to find out more about wine then why not come along to the Borrowdale Hotel for one of the wine tasting events or ask to have a short wine tasting in the new cellar before dining in the restaurant.
10 May 2012 No Comments
The popular Pudding Society strikes again tonight at the Lodore Falls Hotel. Every second Thursday of the month when you dine in the Lake View restaurant you will also be able to enjoy the fine selection of desserts and eat as much of them as you can! Tonight’s desserts include:
Pudding Society Menu – 10th May 2012
White Chocolate and Croissant Pudding
Lakeland cream
Spiced Crème Brûlée
fruit and nut biscotti
Walnut Pie
English Lakes vanilla ice cream
Bailey`s cheesecake
brandy sauce
Poached Pear in Red Wine
champagne sorbet
Cheese and Biscuits
Blacksticks Blue – creamy Lancashire cheese
Hootenanny – goat’s cheese from Appleby Creamery
Applewood – smoked cheddar rolled in paprika
Flambé
£4.50 supplement
black cherries flamed in kirsch, ice cream
Call 017687 77285 to book a table now
04 May 2012 No Comments
In honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Lake District Hotel Group has launched a very special offer for the Queens favourite dog – Corgi’s get to stay for free in all their hotels throughout June!
22% of British households include a dog, though not many include up to eight corgis that the Queen keeps. All the Lake District Hotels welcome dogs, but this is the first time the hotel has waived bed and board cost just for Corgi’s. And as a special treat when they arrive – their owners will be given a free copy of the Lake District Hotel Walking Guide so the dogs can make the most of the area.
Kit Graves, Director of Lake District Hotel Group said “We are very patriotic and we also love dogs so we thought this would be a fitting tribute. Welsh in origin, there are very few Corgi’s inCumbria, but when they visit they will feel right at home. We invitedFerguson, the only Cumbrian Corgi we know to join us for afternoon tea with owner Jen Cartmel fromClever-DogTraining School. ‘Ferg’s’ was a fantastic model for our photo shoot and enjoyed sitting in front of the fire, running in the gardens and admiring our afternoon tea. Certainly very well behaved!”
The Borrowdale Hotel close to Keswick is one of the groups most popular destinations for dog lovers, with riverside walks and craggy fells right on the doorstep – it also has a covered walkway by the downstairs bedrooms which is ideal for drying off dogs www.lakedistricthotels.net
What’s been happening at Lake District Hotels 
A fun weekend at the Keswick Jazz Festival! 
A lesson in Rioja 
Lake District named Dream Spot in Kayaking Poll 
Research shows walking is just as good for you as running – good news for Lake District lovers! 