Hipping Hall Fine Dining Restaurant in Kirkby Lonsdale

At Hipping our primary aim is to provide a profoundly satisfying all round experience, and wherever possible, support the local Community, local suppliers and local artisans.

Oli seeks to combine the principles of ‘Purity, simplicity and freshness’ to the dishes he creates using amazing local and seasonal ingredients. His brief, minimalistic menu descriptions echo his humble, understated and playful nature yet belie the effort and technique that goes into creating each stunning plate of food.

We have a bountiful selection of suppliers from across the North of England which makes our job in the kitchen a whole lot easier! Their passion and commitment to provide truly astonishing produce drives us on to honour the ingredients in the way in which they deserve. We use Growing with Grace in Clapham for their organic produce, leaves and flowers, Kitridding Farm in Lupton between Kirkby Lonsdale and Kendal, Hodgson’s Fish of Hartlepool, Johnson & Swarbrick from Goosnargh, Cartmel Valley Smokehouse and Game as well as Courtyard Dairy in Settle for cheese.

The restaurant is the oldest part of Hipping, dating back to the 15th century. Though we must acknowledge the buildings past we haven’t let time stand still. Walls are painted with local pigments collected by local artists’ Pip Seymour and Rebecca Wallace; making use of minerals from within 15 miles of Hipping, including Gritstone from Ingleton, Rudstone from the Lune Valley and Backbarrow Blue from the Lake District.

The drapes framing the windows are hand crafted from Yorkshire wools by Pennine Tweed and the ironwork from which they hang have been lovingly crafted by Albion Ironwork, Lancaster. The staff wear contemporary yet utilitarian aprons marking the properties past as a Smithy.
By using the natural resources to hand in this amazing landscape in which we find ourselves we have attempted to convey through the texture, shape, colour, and materials Hipping’s true sense of place within the context of its surroundings…

The Lune Valley, the Pennine Moors, The Forest of Bowland and the distant Lakeland fells are all reflected in some small part in this intimate space…

We have sought to create at Hipping Hall a true terroir of England’s North Country – to link the dining experience to the landscape, to create a sense of all that it means to be immersed in this place…

The plates on which Oli’s food is served are an integral part of the dining experience. That’s why we commissioned artisan potters Miles-Moore Ceramics (Martin & Siobhan) to create a range of tableware that would showcase Oli’s food but at the same time connect it to the landscape. They used materials and glazes made from local minerals, including pink granite from Shap, slate from Coniston, haematite from Egremont, river sand from the Wenning in Yorkshire and Lune in Cumbria and Lancashire, to provide a fabulous range of plates, bowls and jugs on which to present Oli’s food and reflect its continued evolution.