John Carrigan's Eating House in South Lanarkshire

A very good resteraunt that serves a wide variety of meals. The portions are very generous and the food is excellent. It's always busy so it's best to book well in advance.

Never disappoints! Friendly staff, delicious food. Great for special occasions too. Favourite dish changes so much but at the moment it’s the sweet and sour chicken with the crispiest batter and the best sweet sauce. Yum

Had a fabulous lunch. Beautiful food. Lovely staff. Can’t say a bad word about Carrigans. This is the restaurant to go to in Hamilton.

Great place, great food. Went for birthday lunch with 3 friends. Everything was lovely. I only wish they said in advance I will need to leave table after 2 h. I was not aware and really surprised when being told "I will need the table in 5 min". Never finished my coffee or managed to order dessert. I know some places do it but would be nice to know in advance.

Attended in front reception and were completely ignored by several members of staff. Made our way into breakfast area and sat at a table looking at menu. Twenty minutes later still hadn’t been approached even though it wasn’t busy. I went to reception and was informed that regulars know to order at counter despite no sign or instructions to this effect. Anyway ordered breakfast which arrived half cooked. Good enough produce but bacon sausage half cooked and barely edible. One lot of toast hadn’t seen a toaster. Waited at reception to pay and ignored again. In short chef and staff need training urgently.

Have been to carrigans Hamilton many times and we had a family meal last night to celebrate my daughters 50th Birthday which was lovely but the service was a bit slow. Maybe it was because it was quite busy. I would recommend there for the food and staff were helpful .

1st time at this restaurant and had a lovely meal. Food was excellent and the staff were very friendly. Would definitely recommend and my husband and I are looking forward to returning.

Great place, service was first class. Decent price, food is more than ample and tasty. Definitely comeback

Could do with being more pram friendly as it's quite tight getting through but staff are accommodating

Seated within minutes of arrival. Service attendance was prompt and friendly. Not rushed. Food arrived in good time. Hot and perfectly cooked. Had a main and desert. Lovely calm atmosphere.

Really nice place . Food was excellent reasonably priced best chips

A funeral on a day when the storm said no! Well done to Carrigans for staying open on a desperate windy day

Not been for a while, not as good as I remember, still decent enough food though.

First got my order wrong and gave me a Tex Mex Burger instread of a Tex Mex Chicken. I can understand the error as they sound similar. I did not raise this as an issue and just had the burger. By the time our meal arrives we ask for another round of drinks. We only ordered three cans of coke. 20 minuites go by, we flag this up to another waitress. She comes back and asks for our drink order. We say again, three cokes. Again, i can understand if the first waitress was busy and forgot to write down our order. But by this point its been half an hour and we have all finished our food. We then get our bill and it includes the 3 cokes we never even got. I flag this issue with the waitress she goes away for 5 minuites, comes back with a revised reciept. Then just after this someome comes with our drinks - this was over 30 minuites since we aksed for them, and the waitress handling our reciept just sends her back with the drinks as they were now removed from the bill. You would think we would maybe get the three cokes compt but no, she walks away with them. I explain this to the bar staff as i was paying my bill - all I get told is they forgot to send in the order, I explain we reorded them and still waited ages.... no apology nothing. All i get told is how they are usually quick with drinks, that doesnt help me. The original waitress who got my food order wrong and didnt get us drinks legitimately scowled at me as she over heard. No apology from anyone i dealt with. Nothing. Best part of 40 mins.

Always a great meal. Always great & friendly service. Never had a bad meal here

Brilliant time and meal was Beautiful...

Booked table for 6pm, didn't get food until 7pm, staff friendly but service poor

Ticking all the boxes for family dining spot! Great food and fantastic service! Not my first and definitely not last time there! :0)

I usually love this place but went up on 26th Dec for my birthday and got the festive menu, took 40 mins for food to arrive and it was barely warm, the turkey was OK but the ham was more fat than anything else, veg was overcooked and stuffing was not nice at all, i left over half the plate, white choc and Baileys cheesecake was more like a mousse than a cheesecake, very disappointed, think this is the 1st time I've ever had a bad meal here.

Fairly decent gluten free selection and the food was nice. Service was a bit slow but it was busy and we were a substantial table so understandable.

As always, the staff are super friendly and the food is delicious. The portions are also great and the prices are reasonable and I would recommend without hesitation.

Food is amazing, the service provided is fantastic with everyone being very helpful and chatty , but only if you want them to be , Cost is very reasonable as well

the steak could of walked right of my plate was shocked when nathan handed it to me could of been sick all over my husand joe mcspunkie

Carrigans never fails. Reasonably priced hearty gastro pub style food..

Great spot for food. Staff are lovely and food is always top tier no matter what you get. Every time I go, I always have a great experience and value for the food you get is spot on

Even though it was a Saturday night, and restaurant was busy, we had to wait 45 minutes from ordering to receiving food. The food was excellent as usual, although custard was tepid

I was abit disappointed with our meal out if I’m honest. I had read reviews saying how good the southern fried chicken was. We had starters, husband loved loved his haggis & black pudding, I got mixed pakora- it was overcooked & burnt. We waited 40 minutes for our mains after our starters with no offer of another drink. Mains came, chicken had been overcooked, very dry. Husband enjoyed his and big portions.

was here on boxing day with family food was brilliant and staff were amazing great value for money would highly recommend

This is a place that I use quite regularly but their festive menu looked good but wasn't up to their usual standards.

My local restaurant, staff are so friendly and helpful, food fantastic, and so reasonably priced,came here for many occasions, and all are made special,by the staff, I recommend the this restaurant,so good 👍 xxx

Get place for a quick meal and a family gathering

We had to wait on food the people who came in after us got there food before us we had to remind the server about our food and he said that it was my stake that was holding up the order when the table next to us had the same as me

Fantastic Christmas lunch with work colleagues.

Great food and plenty of portions. Well worth the visit always friendly service from the staff.

Been to hamilton Carrigans many times. But sorry to say last night 10/11/24 was not the best. Service and staff were both wonderful. We ordered our favourite southern fried chicken and had skipped lunch to leave lots of room for the good portions. Did not have to wait too long and our mains arrived (no starters). Chips looked and tasted fab. Wish the same could have been said for the chicken the coating was very crisp and hard and the chicken very dry. My husband jokingly said he was going to ask for a steak knife. We did not say anything at the time and just eat it as we did not have time to wait around. When the waitress came to clear the plates I quietly advised how disappointed we were. And she apologised asking if we wanted anything else, Which we declined. We were not wanting money off or looking for a free meal, we did not want to cause a fuss. Just to give some polite feed back, fingers crossed this is just a hick up.

First time dining here and i will be back again hopefully soon. The parking isn't the greatest when their busy. The staff are lovely and it didn't take long for the food. My starter was amazing but my main was astounding. It was such a big portion i had to ask for a doggie bag. It was so easy to book a table. The decor is feels warm and cosy. The place is spotless. Can't wait to go there again. The prices are very reasonable and is big portions.

Went here with 2 friends and all of us found the food to be delicious with very generous portions. The service from all staff was cheerful and efficient. Faultless! Will definitely be back.

Great place for dinner and drinks 🍷

Carrigans has always been a favourite for us but on this occasion unfortunately the service was very slow. We both went for market menu and had a table booked for 12.45 ,with only one of us having a starter we had a wait of 20min for potato skins. Our main courses arrived at 1.45. I would say portion was decent enough but most of frozen chips were just crisp pieces. I will not be rushing back. The restaurant was relatively busy but by no means full but I would say more of shortage of staff.

Great value for money, food great and local.

Carrigans Hamilton used to be great! I have been going to Carrigans for 25 years, and over the last year I have noticed a distinct drop in the quality of the food and the service. On two of my last three visits I have return food that was either burnt or over cooked. On all three of my last three visits the service has been very slow, most recently taking 45mins for starters to be delivered from point of order being placed (and that was pate, no cooking and probably the easiest dish to plate up). Sorry Carrigans Hamilton, but your standards have slipped. HOWEVER,.... Carrigans in Blantyre couldn't be more different. Great atmosphere, food consistently very good, service as good if not better than Carrigans Hamilton used to be. For me Carrigans Blantyre is now my preference and worth the extra travel distance.

Had a lovely lunch & few drinks, meal was delicious! Will be back again! 👌

Lovely food, great helpful staff, great value, definitely highly recommended.

Food great need to book make sure you get a seat

Busy place prompt service good food with big plate loads

Went here to try again after having bad experience about 2 years ago with bad service and was exactly same this time over. Food was absolutely brilliant but service was terrible from start to finish had to ask for cutlery waited ages on main meal then asked for desert menu and got forgot about so asked another lady then ended up asking at bar to place the order as no one came near us. No sorry gave or nothing 1 of our party had to leave and couldn’t get desert due to long wait and no one even asked if food was ok, no goodbye or thankyou either. Such a shame as food was so nice but will not be back.

Amazing food as always would highly recommend

Delicious food with large portions from a varied menu and at reasonable prices. Well worth a visit.

We had the haggis and black pudding duo for starter, was disappointing, and overpriced. The soup was lovely. We had chicken curry, small portion, portion size very generous, but curry was a little sweet for my tastes, overall not too bad

Long overdue 1st visit, restaurant was busy as was Sunday afternoon, had booked a table as we were a group of 6, did wait a wee while on mains but they do warn you of this as everything is made to order, definitely worth the wait, large portions n 5 out of 6 of us thought food was excellent, only complaint was gammon steak was a bit tough , I had the burrito n it was superb, would definitely return 1 of our party was coeliac n no issues with the GF menu 2 starters ( 1 was for 2 )sharing 6 mains 2 btls wine 3 pints lager 6 soft drinks £184

We went for a family meal with extended family so there were 10 of us. The food was lovely and the portions huge. The service was a little slow, but it was very busy, so to be expected. The dessert order got mixed up with a few mistakes and a couple of items had to be sent back to be corrected.

Great service lovely food at a reasonable price 👌 👍

The best pub in Hamilton by a distance especially peter in the bar 🍺🍺

One of my fave places to go! Staff are always lovely and the food never missed. Portions are incredible.

Very pleasant dining experience.

Great pub grub , in fact better than pub grub .....

Never disappoints. No matter what you pick from the menu, the food is always excellent, large portions and the staff always helpful.

Wednesday night meal(anniversary) and not only was the meal fantastic the staff were all first class and friendly

Lovely place to go eat. Food is lovely and the staff are so nice also.

First time at carrigans hamilton for years, with the exception of a funeral earlier this year. I had the sizzling prawns, which I enjoyed I'll enjoy even more when I ask for more chillies followed by sinatra chicken. I enjoyed and would order again and will definitely return staff were great and gave the service 4 stars as we had to wait so long for our drinks and had to ask another member of staff for them but it won't put me off returning

Good atmosphere, good food. A very relaxing evening. Waiting staff very attentive. We were under no pressure to finish so we sat for longer than anticipated and even ordered dessert, which we don’t normally do.

Superb place to eat drink and socialise

Yet again another lovely meal with family. Only one complaint and that is the extremely large portions of food but not a bad complaint to have.

Have been here on a number of occasions and always had a nice meal with attentive service from friendly & welcoming staff. This was our first visit for a while and we again enjoyed lovely food. Only slight downside was the time taken to serve drinks and meals and it looked as though they didn’t have enough staff on duty.

Staff as usual very friendly. Had the small lasagne which is plenty. Chips disappointing looked like the end of bag with broken and thin scraps. Took a while for food to come but it was busy and staff always on hand if needed.

Booked a table on the Wednesday night for the Friday. We were sat at the back of beyond and forgotten about. I was sat literally at a set of steps. If I'd forgot and moved backward i would have been down them We waited ages for our drinks. We ordered food which was the JD sharer to start which was tasteless. We then waited over an hour for our mains. I had the southern fried chicken which was salty. That salty we couldn't get anyone's attention to bring us further drinks and water. Hubby had to leave his food and go to the bar himself. Hubby had the fish and chips which was supposed to come with tartare sauce. Our table was booked for 6.45pm and we were still there at 8.45pm Place has went right downhill. Safe to say we will not be back.

The food and service are always excellent. The establishment has a warm welcoming atmosphere. Various options for eating and drinking to suit all tastes.

Never been before, travelled 59 miles to get there for birthday doo. This is fantastic place to eat, ordered sweet & sour, ( fantastic) best I ever had. The other 3 adults in the group thoroughly enjoyed theres' as well, so I decided to include him as the instigator of this most joyous nite out (Mr j king) who swears by, and always orders a steak pie meal. ( think I heard him purring ??). Well, that's all folks, thanks for using your bi- focals on reading this small print. Cheers Ian Forsyth.

Really good menu friendly staff I would recommend for lunch or dinner and a game of pool

Food and prices excellent, atmosphere what you'd expect, neither exceptional or poor.

Never been before was very pleasantly surprised. Food was excellent very reasonable. Also the waitress was really nice

Excellent service and substantial helpings of excellent food. Great value

Great staff amazing food always a pleasure and a must visit when in the south 😀

Staff were fabulous, steak pie was awesome. I'd have liked to have a quieter space, just so happened a birthday being celebrated and the lads were celebrating. 🙂

I ordered something different wasn't keen to be honest but normally food brilliant

We had a first class meal here and the food was excellent. The portions are huge and I can see why they offer smaller ones also. The waitress whose name I didn’t catch was so lovely along with the other waiter Stuart who recommended the most delicious cheesecake. 11/10 for us - definitely return 👍🏻

I had planned on returning to JCs after a long absence. I don’t live in the area, but the last visit for a steak dinner was really good. We enjoyed our visit and friends enjoyed their meals, however my fillet steak ordered medium was more well done, it was also encrusted with black pepper corns making it over seasoned. I’ve never had an expensive £36.50 fillet served like this. The tomato and large mushroom released a lot of moisture as well which detracted the flavour from the peppercorn sauce. This was maybe a good thing as it took some of the heat from all the pepper. I was hungry and ate the meal. I decided to tell the server about my steak and he took a drink off the bill. They said they will report this back to kitchen. I really like this place. We finished off with a drink in the airy lounge bar. Overall. I would happily return here. The staff are friendly and efficient. The setting is comfortable and everyone seemed to be enjoying their evening.

Was in the area for a training course and Carrigan's cane recommended by someone else on the course, would have gone every night if we could, laid back atmosphere, friendly staff and good food, what more could you ask for.

Good wee pub but food isnt as good as it used to be.

Another excellent meal, great service from all the team and a comfortable atmosphere. My favourite place to eat in Hamilton, and highly recommended.

Went to .carrogans hamilton on the 3rd of July to.celebrate my daughters 21st waited 45 min to get out drinks then another 20 min for them to take our starter order so that was an hour just to get served and another 45 min to get our main went in at 1.30 and still not served by 4 pm had to take the rest of our meal home..had a birthday cake with us and had to take it home as we would have waited until midnight for them to bring it ...Needless to say won't be back food not to good either tbh .

First class 👍food big serving and value for money all round great place to go

Usual good service, massive portions of good quality food. Prices are noticeably up, but still offering good value for money.

Very disappointed with here as the steak pie was awful but got the meal swapped to something else but will not be back as found the Blantyre is far superior as is East Kilbride

I was surprised at the portion sizes but I left full so was extremely satisfied.

I was introduced to this eaterie on the recommendation of my fiancee...she was a regular here before I met her...so I have been here twice in one week ....the staff are welcoming and great customer service from them...secondly the food is delivered not long after you order....the food is very hot and fresh...Needless to say I have a three course meal ...so I will be returning to this establishment regular because it's absolutely brilliant...and one last thing ....the toilets are spotless ...information for people who are selective lol....hope this review helps everyone out....go and try the place ....you won't be disappointed...cheers.

A bit pricier than other establishments , the food is decent enough but at the end of day to me it's still just decent pub grub.

Food here is fantastic as you expect from Carrigans but the staff are not great. Waited 30 minutes for drinks and a further 10 minutes for our order to be taken. No apology, just an abrupt question as we had to usher them over. We had friends up and were really embaressed. We normally go to the East Kilbride branch. Would definitely not attend the Hamilton branch again and recommend your East Kilbride branch give this lot some training.

Excellent food, company the best and waiting staff superb.

Tasty steak pie and veg, good pint, decent value for money. Would go back.

I phoned to book for 6 people, early and a week day, then get a phone call from Carrigans (not pleasant female) saying I should pay a deposit of £30

Went with my family to celebrate my dog's birthday who would have been 8 year's old who recently passed away 8 weeks ago. So it was for in his memory. I got the caldeondion chicken which was swimming in a cheese sauce which was the same sauce they used for mac cheese. It was awful veg was hard. My brother got the Sunday roast which looked like a ready meal. We waited 30mins for our food to arrive. Wish they hadn't bothered. Carragians isn't the same food has gone down hill. Presention not great overpriced and not good value for money. Owner never responses to reviews. Even the overall look of the place is dated and never been touched Won't be back again

Love this place, been several times and will go again! I've attended engagement parties, funeral wakes, large family meals, and private meals for two.... every time the service has been great, the food exceptional, and the atmosphere fantastic. The steaks are always cooked to perfection.

Unusually disappointing. Lots of wasted food - soup, chicken coating and gravy overly salted and portions too large

The food was outstanding, the staff where polite and hospitable and even for a large family day out the price was reasonable for 6 people, would recommend the place to all

Not been to carrigan's Hamilton in a long time and fancied it tonight for a family dinner. I have to say how disappointing that the food has become in a place that was always excellent. We ordered two steak pie and chips plus the southern fried chicken. The steak pie pastry and chips where very chewy and like reheats, the southern fried chicken was sent back as swimming in grease plus chips the same. We will definitely not be back in here for food in the future.

Was a bit of a 30 minute wait but was well worth it. I really enjoyed it. Ordered their traditional fish and chips, very tasty cooked well.

Booked Carrigans for our work Christmas party night. Food was excellent, as was the service. Great choice at the bar too.

Fantastic ❤️ meal , server Stuart chatty and friendly. And here I go toilets 🚻 spotless . Thank you all staff for making our meal and evening ❤️ very enjoyable 😉

We had a great night for my sister and my birthday the food was delicious and the portions were massive no complaints from anyone at our table we would definitely recommend