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Daily Record
12-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Record
Scotland's six best restaurants named at prestigious National Restaurant Awards
Here are the top eateries in the country. Scotland's top restaurants were crowned earlier this week at the National Restaurant Awards. The list of 100 is described as the "definitive guide to the UK's best restaurants". Revealed on Monday, June 9, a total of six Scottish restaurants are featured on the prestigious roundup. Three Edinburgh eateries are included, as well as restaurants in Perth and Kinross, Fife, and Argyll and Bute. The Daily Record has compiled a list of all of the restaurants in Scotland named on the National Restaurant Awards' top 100. From fine dining establishments to trendy venues that won't break the bank, there is something for everyone. Read on for the six Scottish restaurants that were named among the best in the UK at the National Restaurant Awards. The full list can be found on the National Restaurant Awards website. Lyla, Edinburgh The highest-placing Scottish restaurant on the list, coming in at number 17, is Lyla. The fine dining restaurant, which has been recognised with a Michelin star, is located on Royal Terrace in the Scottish capital. As reported by the Daily Record, Lyla champions Scotland's natural larder. It sources line-caught fish and shellfish from the Scottish islands, as well as organic meats and vegetables. The restaurant serves up a 10-course tasting menu between Wednesday and Saturday that is priced at £165 per person. It also offers a five or seven-course lunch menu, costing £65 and £95 per person respectively. The Glenturret Lalique, Crieff The Glenturret Lalique placed at number 41 on the National Restaurant Awards' list. Housed within the iconic Glenturret whisky distillery, it has received two Michelin stars. The restaurant's menu takes inspiration from The Glenturret, as well as Scotland's stunning landscapes. Its food was praised by the National Restaurant Awards for being "playful in concept but always graceful and elegant". Priced at £220 per guest, The Glenturret Lalique's sample dinner menu includes dishes such as BBQ Orkney scallop XO, line caught bream, and 'Bisque-it'. The Kinneuchar Inn Next up is The Kinneuchar Inn in the village of Kilconquhar. The 17th-century pub and restaurant came in at number 66. The Kinneuchar Inn was noted by the National Restaurant Awards for its "good-value daily-changing à la carte menu that celebrates seasonal, locally sourced ingredients". It also earned praise for its "down-to-earth" atmosphere. Guests at The Kinneuchar Inn can enjoy dishes such as tagliatelle with Trombetta courgette, basil, and pecorino and grilled Balcaskie mutton chop with Manteca beans, kale, and green sauce. Other options include roast hake with braised fennel, chickpeas, monk's beard, and aïoli and white peach with goat's curd, oak leaf, and hazelnut. Inver, Argyll and Bute Inver is a small restaurant nestled along the shores of Loch Fyne that specialises in simply prepared fresh seafood and native meat and game in season. It placed at number 78 on the National Restaurant Awards' roundup. The restaurant was noted by the experts for its commitment to sustainability. Inver previously became among the first restaurants to be awarded a Michelin Green Star—recognising sustainable gastronomy. Inver's tasting menu is priced at £115 and includes dishes such as scallop with white asparagus and argan and potato handkerchiefs springtime onions. There is also an à la carte menu available, with dishes like Arbroath smokie broth with scallop dumplings and green asparagus and spring chicken terrine with white asparagus and dandelion shoots. The Little Chartroom, Edinburgh Elsewhere, The Little Chartroom in Edinburgh came in at number 79 on the roundup. Situated in the Scottish capital's buzzy Leith district, the eatery serves up a small menu of high-end dishes. The restaurant was described as "low key", but was noted for its modern interiors. Meanwhile, the food itself was praised for its "great confidence and imagination". The Little Chartroom offers both three and five-course dinner menus, priced at £73 and £95 respectively. Dishes include St. Bride's duck breast and leg pastilla with cauliflower, courgette, and apricot and wild garlic fazzoletti with asparagus, pheasant back mushroom, and caramelised cream. The Palmerston, Edinburgh Finally, The Palmerston in Edinburgh is the last Scottish restaurant to be included on the National Restaurant Awards' list of 100. The retro restaurant and bakery is known for its old-fashioned decor and daily-changing menu of locally sourced dishes. The Palmerston was applauded for its "familiar and comforting" atmosphere, as well as its varied menu. The restaurant was also noted for its affordable prices, with a three-course set lunch menu costing less than £25. Visitors to The Palmerston can enjoy dishes such as fish stew with cod, hake, mussels, violet artichoke, fennel, and aïoli and roast turbot with asparagus, sea spinach, agretti, and hollandaise. There is also a huge variety of desserts to choose from, including everything from tarts to trifle.
The Courier
11-06-2025
- Business
- The Courier
Fife's Kinneuchar Inn finally among UK's top 100 restaurants - here's why I'm not surprised
Although it is impossible to say for certain, an oft-repeated estimate is that there are well over 30,000 restaurants operating in the UK at any given time. Whittling this number down to a top 100 is a task of gargantuan proportions. One the National Restaurant Awards manages to complete annually. This year's awards took place on Monday June 9, and two Courier Country restaurants made the cut. For the first time in the restaurant's history, The Kinneuchar Inn was one of them. I spoke to James Ferguson – who runs the Kilconquhar restaurant alongside Alethea Palmer – back in May, a few days after he'd found out they'd made the shortlist. 'We're really happy,' he told me. 'We've got a good following in the industry and good friends in the industry.' The fact The Kinneuchar Inn ended up being named the 66th best restaurant in the UK at these awards is a testament to its popularity. The National Restaurant Awards ranking is dictated by votes taken from the industry's leading chefs, restaurateurs and writers. That said, the honour still seems well overdue. The Kinneuchar Inn has long held a reputation as a restaurateur's restaurant thanks to its nose-to-tail ethos and the generous, seasonal dishes the team serve. On a given night, customers can expect everything from Pittenweem surf clams with leeks, cider and dulse to pig's head croquettes. To make matters even better, several of the restaurant's main courses are priced under £25. Other restaurants that offer this style of honest, well-executed and affordable food – such as The Palmerston in Edinburgh – have been named in the National Restaurant Awards' top 100 several years in a row. Naturally, this has added to many people's convictions that it was only a matter of time until The Kinneuchar Inn made the list. Still, James and the team were delighted when the news finally came through. 'We've had a lot of support from other restaurants in Scotland. Loads of them got in touch when it was announced we'd made the shortlist,' he told me with a smile. The vast majority of restaurants named in the top 100 specialise in fine dining. It seems many in the industry still think expensive tasting menus are the ultimate expression of gastronomy. An example of such a menu comes from Crieff's The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant, which was named the 41st best restaurant in the UK at this year's National Restaurant Awards. The restaurant – which boasts two Michelin stars – is known for producing an extensive tasting menu that costs £220 per person. When eating at Glenturret, diners can expect to enjoy excellent dishes that pay homage to Scottish produce. These include the likes of juniper-smoked roe deer and barbecued Orkney scallops. The same can be said of this year's highest rated Scottish restaurant, Lyla. Here, a 10-course tasting menu focuses on sustainable Scottish seafood. It costs £165 per head. And yet, I still find myself drawn towards The Kinneuchar Inn. Maybe I just like an underdog, but there is something infinitely refreshing about seeing a relaxed, rural and affordable restaurant breaking into the UK's most prestigious restaurant list.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Yahoo
6 of the best restaurants with rooms in the UK
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). A meal at a great destination restaurant is the ideal activity around which to plan a trip — and what better way to extend the experience than by checking in overnight and doing it all again at breakfast the next day? Restaurants with rooms, where you come for the food and stay for the, well, stay can be found all over the UK. Here are some of our favourites, from a former pub in Yorkshire to a castle in the Scottish Highlands. Having started life in the New Forest, The Pig is now an 11-strong chain of restaurants with rooms, all with the same focus on seasonality and traceable sourcing. As is the case at all the Pigs, the outpost near Bath, in the Mendip Hills, has an extensive kitchen garden, with beds of greens, roots, herbs and fruit — as well as a mushroom-growing shed. It's all used to great effect in the restaurant, alongside produce from trusted local farmers, fisherfolk and foragers. The chefs' love of curing, smoking and pickling is visible in dishes such as smoked chalk stream trout with pickled cucumber and cider dressing, and spiced duck and smoked bacon terrine. Spread across the main house and a series of other buildings on the estate, guest rooms are tastefully decked out in muted tones and many have roll-top baths. Some even have their own wood-burning stoves. Doubles from £265, room only; three-course meal for two around £100, wine from £9 a glass. Sheffield's fine-dining favourite has moved from its shipping container home to the edge of the Peak District, taking its Nordic-Japanese-inspired food and contemporary flair to the revamped 19th-century Oughtibridge Paper Mill. Seven spacious loft suites sit above a cosy bar, deli shop and terrace backed by the peaks, and a cathedral-like dining room and show kitchen. Here, Luke French leads a studious team serving adventurous menus of British produce that packs an Asian punch. Expect likes of Hampshire trout with yuzu beurre blanc and local duck with kampot pepper, exquisitely presented on ceramics made specifically for each dish with knives crafted from Sheffield steel and Derbyshire fell wood. Doubles from £100 per night, B&B signature tasting menu £125. In a pretty Dales village just outside Skipton, The Angel at Hetton has garnered numerous accolades, including a Michelin star and a spot on the National Restaurant Awards' top 50 list. Despite being housed in a 15th-century pub building, it's a place for special-occasion meals rather than quiet pints, with a la carte and tasting menus of beautiful, delicate dishes. Expect quality produce such as Isle of Mull scallops (served with calamansi, melon and yuzu ponzu) and tete de moine cheese (in a tart with plums and beetroot pastrami), plus some of the best milk bread this side of Hokkaido. Accommodation, meanwhile, is in 16 rooms across the main building and a converted barn across the road. All come with minimal-yet-cosy decor — white walls and wooden beams — and opulent bathrooms with deep, statement tubs. Doubles from £560 including five-course dinner and tasting-style breakfast. Tucked away in 1,000 acres of sprawling north Norfolk farmland, close to the picture-perfect village of Docking, the Nest Farmhouse delivers cool and cosy in equal measures. The former cattle shed-turned-restaurant with rooms opened in summer 2024 and offers just five pastel-hued bedrooms and an open-air restaurant headed up by local lad and head chef, Grant Cotton. His menu is a carefully thought-out homage to local produce: standouts include the melt-in-your-mouth Dexter sirloin (served with roasted shallots and crispy potatoes), roasted bone marrow (with pickled shallots and focaccia) and the hand-dived Orkney scallop (with swede, garlic and fermented chilli) — and almost everything is either grown on site or sourced within a 10-mile radius. For the perfect night cap, order the signature farmhouse martini, made using homemade pickled sea fennel. Doubles from £200, including a welcome drink and breakfast; dinner around £30 a head. A firmament of Michelin stars has arisen in Liverpool's leafy hinterland. Moor Hall's five-acre grounds host a walled kitchen garden furnishing menus at its 16th-century manor-set Moor Hall Restaurant (three Michelin stars and a Michelin Green Star) and adjacent Michelin-star Barn, complete with curing and aging rooms. Lancashire chef Mark Birchall celebrates the homegrown and foraged: local sea buckthorn sharpens garden carrots while preserved raspberry complements Cornish mackerel. Punchy plant colours punctuate the 18-course Provenance menu, beginning with garden-inspired aperitifs and sculptural 'snacks'. Chic garden room cabins with hot tubs, emperor beds and fireplaces, from £400 B&B set menus from £125. Positioned on a windswept promontory jutting into the Sound of Mull, Mingary Castle dates back to the 13th century, and in 2021 it was reborn as a restaurant with rooms. Expect grand, The Traitors-style interiors, with wood panelling, soft furnishing providing pops of colour and four-poster beds in the four suites — each of which is named after a clan linked to the castle. The three-AA-rosette restaurant, meanwhile, serves a daily-changing tasting menu on which produce from Scotland's west coast is the star of the show. Expect smart dishes like poached Sound of Mull lobster with cherry tomatoes, garlic and white wine beurre blanc, and Sunday roasts with a difference, such as braised feather blade of beef with confit carrots, black garlic ketchup, and Yorkshire pudding. Doubles from £320, B&B five-course dinner £60 per person. Foraging, fermenting and Somerset produce are all key to the menu at chef Sam Lomas's restaurant in Bruton. Highlights of the seasonal menu have included pork belly, pigeon and beetroot skewers with yoghurt, and Westcombe cheddar gougères (cheese puffs) with pickled quince. The restaurant is part of Number One Bruton, a former coaching inn with comfy, cottagecore rooms. Doubles from £195, B&B dinner around £40 per person. Published in Issue 27 (spring 2025) of Food by National Geographic Traveller (UK).To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here. (Available in select countries only).
National Geographic
13-05-2025
- National Geographic
Looking for a gourmet meal and a good night's sleep? Try the UK's best 'restaurants with rooms'
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). A meal at a great destination restaurant is the ideal activity around which to plan a trip — and what better way to extend the experience than by checking in overnight and doing it all again at breakfast the next day? Restaurants with rooms, where you come for the food and stay for the, well, stay can be found all over the UK. Here are some of our favourites, from a former pub in Yorkshire to a castle in the Scottish Highlands. Curing, smoking and pickling are all on the menu at The Pig near Bath, with dishes such as smoked salmon with cider dressing, pickled cucumber and Loch Duart honey. Photograph by Jake Eastham 1. The Pig near Bath, Somerset Having started life in the New Forest, The Pig is now an 11-strong chain of restaurants with rooms, all with the same focus on seasonality and traceable sourcing. As is the case at all the Pigs, the outpost near Bath, in the Mendip Hills, has an extensive kitchen garden, with beds of greens, roots, herbs and fruit — as well as a mushroom-growing shed. It's all used to great effect in the restaurant, alongside produce from trusted local farmers, fisherfolk and foragers. The chefs' love of curing, smoking and pickling is visible in dishes such as smoked chalk stream trout with pickled cucumber and cider dressing, and spiced duck and smoked bacon terrine. Spread across the main house and a series of other buildings on the estate, guest rooms are tastefully decked out in muted tones and many have roll-top baths. Some even have their own wood-burning stoves. Doubles from £265, room only; three-course meal for two around £100, wine from £9 a glass. 2. Jöro, Sheffield Sheffield's fine-dining favourite has moved from its shipping container home to the edge of the Peak District, taking its Nordic-Japanese-inspired food and contemporary flair to the revamped 19th-century Oughtibridge Paper Mill. Seven spacious loft suites sit above a cosy bar, deli shop and terrace backed by the peaks, and a cathedral-like dining room and show kitchen. Here, Luke French leads a studious team serving adventurous menus of British produce that packs an Asian punch. Expect likes of Hampshire trout with yuzu beurre blanc and local duck with kampot pepper, exquisitely presented on ceramics made specifically for each dish with knives crafted from Sheffield steel and Derbyshire fell wood. Doubles from £100 per night, B&B signature tasting menu £125. The bedrooms at The Angel at Hetton in North Yorkshire are minimalist yet still cosy, with opulent bathrooms. 3. The Angel at Hetton, North Yorkshire In a pretty Dales village just outside Skipton, The Angel at Hetton has garnered numerous accolades, including a Michelin star and a spot on the National Restaurant Awards' top 50 list. Despite being housed in a 15th-century pub building, it's a place for special-occasion meals rather than quiet pints, with a la carte and tasting menus of beautiful, delicate dishes. Expect quality produce such as Isle of Mull scallops (served with calamansi, melon and yuzu ponzu) and tete de moine cheese (in a tart with plums and beetroot pastrami), plus some of the best milk bread this side of Hokkaido. Accommodation, meanwhile, is in 16 rooms across the main building and a converted barn across the road. All come with minimal-yet-cosy decor — white walls and wooden beams — and opulent bathrooms with deep, statement tubs. Doubles from £560 including five-course dinner and tasting-style breakfast. The Nest Farmhouse is a former cattle shed-turned-restaurant with rooms, led by local chef Grant Cotton. Photograph by Nathan Neeve 4. The Nest Farmhouse, Norfolk Tucked away in 1,000 acres of sprawling north Norfolk farmland, close to the picture-perfect village of Docking, the Nest Farmhouse delivers cool and cosy in equal measures. The former cattle shed-turned-restaurant with rooms opened in summer 2024 and offers just five pastel-hued bedrooms and an open-air restaurant headed up by local lad and head chef, Grant Cotton. His menu is a carefully thought-out homage to local produce: standouts include the melt-in-your-mouth Dexter sirloin (served with roasted shallots and crispy potatoes), roasted bone marrow (with pickled shallots and focaccia) and the hand-dived Orkney scallop (with swede, garlic and fermented chilli) — and almost everything is either grown on site or sourced within a 10-mile radius. For the perfect night cap, order the signature farmhouse martini, made using homemade pickled sea fennel. Doubles from £200, including a welcome drink and breakfast; dinner around £30 a head. Moor Hall is home to a three-Michelin-starred restaurant and five acres of grounds, containing a walled kitchen garden and a barn with curing and aging rooms. Photograph by Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms 5. Moor Hall, Lancashire A firmament of Michelin stars has arisen in Liverpool's leafy hinterland. Moor Hall's five-acre grounds host a walled kitchen garden furnishing menus at its 16th-century manor-set Moor Hall Restaurant (three Michelin stars and a Michelin Green Star) and adjacent Michelin-star Barn, complete with curing and aging rooms. Lancashire chef Mark Birchall celebrates the homegrown and foraged: local sea buckthorn sharpens garden carrots while preserved raspberry complements Cornish mackerel. Punchy plant colours punctuate the 18-course Provenance menu, beginning with garden-inspired aperitifs and sculptural 'snacks'. Chic garden room cabins with hot tubs, emperor beds and fireplaces, from £400 B&B set menus from £125. The three-AA-rosette restaurant Mingary Castle serves dishes such as confit beetroot mousse wrapped in beetroot and balsamic jelly. Photograph by Clair Irwin 6. Mingary Castle, Scottish Highlands Positioned on a windswept promontory jutting into the Sound of Mull, Mingary Castle dates back to the 13th century, and in 2021 it was reborn as a restaurant with rooms. Expect grand, The Traitors-style interiors, with wood panelling, soft furnishing providing pops of colour and four-poster beds in the four suites — each of which is named after a clan linked to the castle. The three-AA-rosette restaurant, meanwhile, serves a daily-changing tasting menu on which produce from Scotland's west coast is the star of the show. Expect smart dishes like poached Sound of Mull lobster with cherry tomatoes, garlic and white wine beurre blanc, and Sunday roasts with a difference, such as braised feather blade of beef with confit carrots, black garlic ketchup, and Yorkshire pudding. Doubles from £320, B&B five-course dinner £60 per person. Somerset produce is key to the offering at Briar, part of Number One Bruton, a former coaching inn with cottagecore rooms. 7. Briar at Number One Bruton, Somerset Foraging, fermenting and Somerset produce are all key to the menu at chef Sam Lomas's restaurant in Bruton. Highlights of the seasonal menu have included pork belly, pigeon and beetroot skewers with yoghurt, and Westcombe cheddar gougères (cheese puffs) with pickled quince. The restaurant is part of Number One Bruton, a former coaching inn with comfy, cottagecore rooms. Doubles from £195, B&B dinner around £40 per person. Published in Issue 27 (spring 2025) of Food by National Geographic Traveller (UK). 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