Aberfeldy Restaurant Guide

In a Victorian railway hotel relaunched two years ago by brothers Chris & Andy Rowley, “this restaurant makes excellent use of produce from the same owners’ nearby Ballintaggart Farm”, where they operate a cook school. We rated it on limited feedback, all of it good.

Matilda Tsappis and her husband, ex-Leiths chef Tom, used to run a London supper club (Elia) before moving to this former B&B: now an 18-seater with open kitchen (and five bedrooms). According to one reporter this year: “it is no surprise that this restaurant has won several awards for its superb food. The tasting menu, made up of at least a dozen small plates, changes frequently as the chefs invent new dishes. The food is very imaginative, marrying mainly Scottish ingredients to modern techniques, delicious flavours and exquisite plating. There is also a choice of well-matched wine flights”.

2022 Review: Great British Bake-Off’s youngest ever contestant, Flora Shedden (then just 19) runs this artisan bakery, housed in what was a derelict 200-year-old building in the heart of the community, and recently opened another venture across the road: well worth a visit should you be passing through on your way to the Highlands…

“Devoted solely to vegan and vegetarianism with helpful staff to guide you through the very small menu delivering small plates of imaginative concoctions” – this old inn’s forward-looking formula is somewhat at odds with its old-fashioned stone exterior. (The Times’s Chitra Ramaswamy also declared herself a fan in her August 2024 review, haling a “right-on ethos, with its vegan wines, on-site yurt for yoga retreats and duvets made of recycled plastic bottles”, and its “exciting” cooking).