Auchterarder, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

“What a find in Auchterarder, so close to Gleneagles”. “You can not fault the food, wine and service in this small and cosy, family run restaurant”. It’s a white-painted venue on the town’s main street whose straightforward menu is much more affordable than that down the road (with the likes of Hot Smoked Salmon, Chicken Supreme, Tenderloin of Venison and Eton Mess). For one of our diners, “it’s a go-to place when we are north of the border – if only it was closer to us in Cheshire!”

“Kim & Andy Murray’s culinary adventure is now maturing into a very good country house hotel” indeed – the tennis ace and his wife having bought the property, a Victorian mansion set in secluded countryside near Dunblane, in 2013 (you can take tennis lessons there, but not, alas, from the maestro), and there’s an on-site chapel where his brother Jamie also married. As we went to press, change was afoot: following the recent appointment of James Mearing, replacing longtime chef Darin Campbell, the hotel was set to close in early 2026 as operations shift to creating a new extension-based restaurant (launching May 2026), after which time the current Glasshouse dining room will revert to serving afternoon teas. Here’s hoping the new setting adds to what is already a “stunning location”, and backdrop this year to some “first-class cooking” of local produce – but then again “Cromlix usually gets it right”.

2024 Review: This wood-paneled “gem” occupying a seventeenth-century building, from the husband-and-wife team of chef Andrew Moss & FOH Karen Milne, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year – the “exceptional cooking and wine list are a joy”. We’ve rated it on relatively thin feedback – more reports please.