Scottish Restaurants in Auchterarder
1. The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant
Scottish restaurant in Crieff
The Glenturret Distillery, The Hosh - PH7
“A joyous combination of beautiful, brilliant food, a great wine list, and service from people who made it as much about fun as fine-dining” – this Lalique-branded venue has been an unusually successful departure for Scotland’s oldest working distillery, winning a hymn of praise since it opened three years ago (and a second Michelin star in early 2024). Many who comment on it report their best meal of the year, from a luxurious tasting menu prepared by chef Mark Donald and his team for £220 per person; and even those who do not are nonetheless impressed: “We had the pescatarian tasting menu – fish and seafood are excellent (including the spoots, langoustine, bisque-it and monkfish); the vegetarian dishes (sweetcorn nectarine truffle and juniper-smoked king oyster) are maybe more of an acquired taste. The wine list is amazing and the cocktails (especially the Negroni) to die for. The lounge and bar area have the perfect ambience. The dining area itself is a little sparse despite the chandeliers but the Lalique glassware is an exquisite touch”.
2. Strathearn Restaurant
French restaurant in Auchterarder
“Beautifully cooked food in an opulent setting perfect for a special occasion” wins nothing but praise for this legendary property’s traditional dining room (which leaves the culinary showing off to Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, and concentrates on more old-school luxurious fare). Well… almost nothing but praise – a couple of reporters do note that while it’s “a very good restaurant, we are in Perthshire, not Mayfair or St James’s” and notwithstanding its many virtues the experience can still seem a tad “overpriced”.
3. Andrew Fairlie, Gleneagles Hotel
French restaurant in Auchterarder
“Just sublime!… Couldn‘t fault it in any way!… The highlight of my year… and have booked again for 2025!” – “Andrew Fairlie may no longer be with us, but his legacy is in good hands and lives on” at this famous dining room bearing his name, where chef Stephen McLaughlin (who worked with Andrew for 26 years before the latter passed away) creates what many diners consider to be Scotland’s finest cuisine (“there’s no getting away from the fact that this has to be up there with the best gastronomic experience we have ever experienced”), with “each fabulous course a testament to the skill of the kitchen brigade”. GM Dale Dewsbury presides over “a team of the loveliest people” who breathe life into this elegant (if windowless) chamber at the heart of this famous property.
4. 63 Tay Street
Scottish restaurant in Perth
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2021 Review: Set up in 2007 by Slow Food aficionado Graeme Pallister, who trained at Kinloch House Hotel and the restaurant at Gleneagles, this elevated Scottish dining room, on the western banks of the Tay, remains a Perth gem that’s “exceptional value early evening”.
5. The Forager
Scottish restaurant in Dollar
19-23 Bridge Street - FK14
No reports as yet on this spring 2023 newcomer – the latest opening in the expanding empire of MasterChef: The Professionals 2018 finalist Dean Banks. But The Scotsman’s Gaby Soutar is a fan – in her February 2023 review she noted that the “foraging theme only seems to extend as far as the branding” with a menu that only “features the prerequisite pub classics, like fish ’n’ chips, Sunday roast, pies” along with some “fancier bits”. But she concluded that “Scotland has another excellent country pub”.
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