Kinbuck, British, Modern Restaurant Guide

“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”.