Find the Best Local BBQ Ingredients

From Hellishly Good Buns to Bloody Mary Ketchup

“Mountain spring and lush landscapes, the perfect ingredients” for your Lake District BBQ can be found across the region if you know where to look. Here we journey to hidden parts of the Lake District to bring you the very best of the region’s ingredients and produce for your perfect Cumbrian barbecue party. 

Hawkshead, Sawrey and Lakeside 

BLOODY MARY KETCHUP from the award-winning Hawkshead Relish Company, because all BBQ’s need red sauce! Look out for their Black Garlic Ketchup too, which is a taste sensation with Cumberland Sausage.

Find it on the shelves at Booths Supermarket, Windermere and in the Hawkshead Relish shop, Hawkshead.

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Cartmel & the Lyth Valley

COAL OIL from Cumbria’s creative culinary mastermind, Cartmel chef Simon Rogan. This little gem is ideal for infusing that BBQ smokey flavour, without charring.

Find it in the Rogan & Co online shop or in their beautiful store in the village of Cartmel.

Whilst in Cartmel, the foodie capital of the Lake District , complete your shopping trip with a visit to Unsworth’s Yard. Here you’ll find a local brewery, Cartmel Cheeses and Cartmel Drinkshop, for the best wine and spirits. Head back into the village square to pick up the most famous sweet in the Lake District – Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding. 

HIGGINSON’S BUTCHERS

Higginsons tasty, home-made meaty pork and bramley apple and beef-steak burgers or their award-winning free range pork sausages, produced from Higginsons own rare breed British Saddleback pigs, are just the juicy delights that make for an impressive barbecue.

Visit the butchers in Grange-over-sands, just outside the Lake District, or you’ll find their produce in Cockles convenience store, Cartmel, Castle Stores, Kendal, Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop, Sizergh, The Honeypot, Ambleside.

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Ullswater & the Eden Valley 

CUMBRIAN SMOKED SALMON

Rope hung wild Solway smoked salmon, from The Old Smoke House, a mile outside of Penrith in the North Lakes.

Find the produce from The Old Smoke House online or visit Brougham Hall where you will find a range of local artisans.

Visit the butchers in Grange-over-sands, just outside the Lake District, or you’ll find their produce in Cockles convenience store, Cartmel, Castle Stores, Kendal, Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop, Sizergh, The Honeypot, Ambleside.

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Keswick & the North Lakes

CRANSTONS CUMBRIA PRODUCE FOOD HALL

Cranston’s is a must for locals and visitors alike in the North Lakes, when stocking up your barbecue. With one shop, you will be completely prepared; from salad, meats, beer and wine, artisan bread and relishes.

Make things easy and pick up some pre-prepared kebab sticks or pick up some minced lamb, beef or pork and try your hand at making your own burgers or kofta sticks.

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Central & South Lakes  

MORE? ARTISAN BAKERY

Located between Kendal and Windermere in the South Lakes, a visit to More? The Artisan Bakery on Staveley Mill Yard, Staveley, is a must to pick up the best demi brioche buns in the Lakes! The rich buttery buns, made from brioche dough, are trendy at the moment for burger recipes.

Find the best selection of breads, buns, sweet treats and also pies in their Staveley shop and cafe. Staveley Mill Yard is another hidden gem of Lake District artisan producers, and you’ll find a vibrant hub of craft and foodie businesses, including Hawkshead Brewery and their Beer Hall.

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