Gullane Restaurant Guide

The well-established Roux-branded operation at this well-known, Lutyens-designed country house hotel (bordering Muirfield golf course, and looking towards the Firth of Forth) attracted only limited feedback last year, but all was upbeat: “really high class cuisine showing good attention to detail – quite expensive but well worth it!”

Tom & Michaela Kitchin have forayed outside of Edinburgh for the first time to this coastal village, heavily refurbishing what was previously the Golf Inn: now a hip restaurant with rooms, where the dining room – with pitched roof – is decked out in a very ‘now’ design of greige, wood and bare bricks. Most reviews say its modern gastropub fare is as outstanding as its pedigree would suggest, but there’s also a minority for whom it’s “disappointing given TK’s reputation and very overpriced for rather average pub food”.