Culinary Delights of the Peak District

Eating Out in the Peak District

The Peak District offers excellent dining experiences with fresh local produce, traditional specialties, and diverse cuisines in charming rural settings.

Edale itself has two pubs (The Old Nag’s Head and The Rambler Inn), two cafes (The Penny Pot and Newfold Farm Cafe) all providing excellent food for everyone’s tastes. Most supermarkets deliver to The Gathering so please contact us if you like us to take delivery of an online order for you.

The pretty gritstone villages of the Dark Peak and the limestone villages of the White Peak offer pubs and cafes galore: The Olive Tree cafe Sparrowpit, Blind Bull in Little Hucklow, Chatsworth Kitchen, The Barrel at Bretton and The Packhorse at Little Longstone. Local farms produce meat of excellent quality and artisan cheeses, breads and preserves deservedly win national awards. We have a wonderful local butcher in Hope called Watsons on Edale Road, on the way to The Gathering. Our favourite restaurant is the Curry Cabin in Hope.

Other very popular places to dine out include:

The Cheshire Cheese, Hope

Good solid pub food post a 2 hour walk along Mam Tor and down Losehill to the pub from Edale. Option to take the train back (5 mins) if legs too tired for return journey – local taxi!

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The Old Hall and Paper Mill Inn, Chinley

An Elizabethan manor house and adjacent inn. Another great pit-stop after a much longer walk – 4 ½ hours over Kinder and down. Great garden and wide range of beers and food. Jump on the local train back to Edale (less than 10 minutes!).

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