Surrounded by England's most magical countryside and bread so good it could be a main course: inside the trending Michelin-starred Lake District restaurant

MailOnline Travel's Ted Thornhill dines at Le Source at the Gilpin Hotel This Relais & Châteaux property is nestled amid lush scenery east of Windermere READ MORE: The UK's best towns and villages to stay in 2024 are named

By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor

Published: 08:25 BST, 23 May 2024 | Updated: 10:36 p.m. BST, 23 May 2024

In most restaurants, bread is a secondary activity, but here it is listed as one of the dishes, the second of six.

< p class="mol- para-with-font">This is the Michelin-starred Source at the Gilpin Hotel, a Relais & Châteaux property nestled amid some of the Lake District's most magical scenery, just east of Windermere .

And he has every right to elevate the status of his "Parker House Roll" - because it is glorious.

And he has every right to elevate the status of his "Parker House Roll" - because it is glorious.

< p class="mol-para-with-font">Sitting at one of the restaurant's elegant round wooden tables, I am in a slight state of ecstasy as I bite into a freshly cooked mass of hot pasty exuberance flavored with wild garlic and glazed with fermented honey.

The icing on the cake, so to speak, is a generous portion of butter cultured sprinkled with smoked sea salt.