WINDERMER'S Gilpin Hotel and Lake House has made the Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants list alongside just eight other northern establishments.

The hotel’s formal dining establishment, Hrishi, combines great Lake District produce and classic methods to deliver modern British dishes with a twist of Asia.

The Gilpin was awarded a Michelin star for the first time last year and the hotel also opened a new restaurant, Gilpin Spice.

Executive chef, Hrishikesh Desai, who joined the restaurant in April 2015 after winning the BBC 2 competition, Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial.

Mr Desai is one of the very few chefs to have won the Roux Scholarship (2009), the Craft Guild of Chef’s National Chef of the Year (2010) and a Michelin Star (2017).

Speaking to in-Cumbria earlier in the year, the managing director of Gilpin House Hotel and Lake House, Barney Cunliffe, said that the hotel’s focus on food was important for the growth of the business.

He said: “We’ve now got two very distinctive and different restaurants, again I think it’s the first of its kind.

“There are many country house hotel that over the last five years or so have opened second restaurants, but they tend to be brasseries, to try and cater for more mixed demands from guests.

“The Michelin star is hugely important for us, it means the fine dining restaurant maintains a specialness about it and that’s where Hrishikesh will apply his art with the most attention and we’ll never lose sight of that.”