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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

How L’Enclume’s Michelin win is taking Cumbria to the top of the foodie table

Simon Rogan (centre) helps to plate up food
Simon Rogan (centre) helps to plate up food at his L’Enclume restaurant in Cartmel, Cumbria, which has won its third Michelin star. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian

When Simon Rogan and his family moved to Cumbria in 2002, the Lake District was famed for many reasons but food was not top of the menu. Visitors came in droves for the hills, rather than the haute cuisine.

Twenty years later their feted village restaurant, L’Enclume, is at the centre of a “mind-blowing” culinary renaissance that has led some diners to compare Cumbria to international foodie havens such as Paris, San Sebastián and Copenhagen.

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