Dining

"I've never eaten so much and felt so contented. Great views and staff"
- QAL

"Some of the hotels are deliciously Victorian. The porridge at 'The Windamere' hotel is, I am told by unimpeachable authorities, unsurpassed in Scotland…"
- Jan Morris

Windamere's Darjeeling Tea

For a perfect of tea, allow the tea leaves to brew for three to five minutes. Take out the tea strainer and set it aside.

We recommend that you do not dilute this tea with milk. You may sweeten it, although many connoisseurs of tea would prefer that you drink it “straight”. Typically, a high quality Darjeeling tea is a pale gold in colour – like the Himalayan sunlight at dawn – and has a pleasant bouquet. Before sipping, inhale the distinctive perfume of your tea to heighten your enjoyment of one of the world’s great beverages.

Coffee by Windamere

From the Baba Budan Hills of Mysore in Southern India comes some of the finest coffee in the world. Windamere adds a northern character to the distinctive flavour of this southern coffee by hand-roasting the beans in a rotating drum over a very slow charcoal fire. The beans are then ground to perfection in an old fashioned coffee-mill just prior to brewing. There may be occasional small variations in the coffee brewed for you at meals. Coffee making, even now, remains more of an Art than a Science at Windamere.