Heft

Kevin Tickle left his head chef post at The Forest Side in Grasmere to open Heft with his wife Nicola inside a seventeenth-century inn at High Newton, near Cartmel. Kevin grew up foraging and fishing on the Furness Peninsula; Nicola's family has farmed the surrounding fells since the 1600s, and that farming network supplies much of the kitchen. The menu changes with what comes off the land that week, served across a bar and a small dining room with five guest rooms upstairs. Heft holds a Michelin star, awarded within two years of opening, though the couple describe the cooking simply as food shaped by the ground it comes from rather than by technique for its own sake.