Auchtermuchty Restaurant Guide

2022 Review: This “little piece of France” – down to the terrace under a red awning along the streetfront – has earned a strong local reputation over more than a decade as a haven of classic Gallic cuisine.

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.

“The Smeddle Family has consistently turned out very good food served by very knowledgeable and capable waiting staff” (all backed up by a heavyweight wine list) at this famous, upscale inn – sensitively modernised over the years and set “in a tiny village just outside St Andrews”. One reporter gives us the local lowdown: “As it happens the family have just announced that the business is up for sale. (March 2025). They have run it for twenty years and took it to one Michelin Star. Before them the legendary David Wilson ran it for thirty five years. Watch this space for details of the new owner…” [no transaction has yet been announced as of October 2025]

“The Dundee restaurant to be seen in and to eat at right now” – according to a May 2025 report from local paper ‘The Courier’ – Harris & Katie McNeill’s informal café/eatery is a year old and already notorious locally for its scrumptious Guinness Cake. It’s also attracted visits from The Times’s Chitra Ramaswamy who – in her October 2025 review – found it “hovers in the hip zone between café and casual restaurant” with a “concise, hyper-seasonal menu, chalked on a blackboard”. Reports please!