Platform 1864 in Highland

I searched for this restaurant when I was hungry while traveling from London to Scotland. The food is okay in all respects. It's said to have been made by remodeling a train platform. It's a pretty restaurant in a pretty neighborhood. A place to eat on the way up

1 night stay in Tain, didnt think much to the town itself but really enjoyed our dinner here. We booked in advance and were pre-warned about live music that evening. Atmosphere was great. Really good selection of drinks available. Good choices on the food menu and specials available. Would thoroughly recommend

Lovely staff...! Very dog friendly :-)... Gorgeous interior, really pretty outside spaces. Great views of Tain Links & Dornoch Firth.. Update - the All Day Breakfast is to die for, all the produce is top quality, lots of it, service with a smile as usual, great price too, cheers! Very quaint station stop outside. Impeccable toilets. Quality products and Customer Service... Thanks all...

We finally managed to find the place open as we passed. The venue is beautiful and located by Tain train station. The staff were friendly and helpful. Very good breakfast. Super recommended.

A fantastic local family owned restaurant ,.restored from the towns old train station, steeped in history and a labour of love, stunning both inside and out. A very friendly team look after you from the moment step through the door and the food is to die for, superbly prepared and presented, the well stocked bar looks fantastic, and serves a vast array of locally produced beers, spirits and cocktails.. We look forward to our next visit..

Always a great atmosphere, very welcoming and helpful staff, delicious food and great drinks selections. Really enjoy our visits, should be more often!

A fairly snug environment, with a dimly lit, cosy atmosphere. Service was astounding and the food was first class. Well worth a drive to get to. Ample parking out front. Plenty of space inside (and out for when the weather is better) worthy of a special occasion (Such as our wedding anniversary)

Really enjoyable meal here on a Friday lunchtime. The lunch menu starts at noon so had to wait 10 minutes to get this menu. The place was very quiet but a few other customers did arrive close to us leaving. Very good friendly service. The food was tasty and well prepared. The Apple Crumble was excellent. Extensive cocktail menu including cocktails.

My wife and I dined here, food was fantastic. Service was quick.

Our 5th visit, and another delicious meal! Every visit has been consistently top form. The king prawn linguine was so good!

Great food, great decor, great building! The perfect place for a laid back, enjoyable meal!

We were staying in the area so visited this place for some dinner on a Saturday evening. They didn't mind that we were early for our reservation and we received very good service throughout. I ordered the chicken goujons, but unfortunately, they were quite tasteless despite being in beer batter. Thankfully, I had bbq sauce to dip them into. The fries,coleslaw, and salad were nice, though. It was a pleasant experience, but at over £50 for 2 people for 1 course, we won't be repeating it again.

Amazing place to have a meal and a cocktail. Food was delicious and the staff was friendly and attentive. The sea bass and mussels were cooked perfectly. Great atmosphere

Modernly furnished, a bit cool in the back area, but definitely one of the best restaurants in town.

Food good .got rushed to order as kitchen seems to close at 3 pm.

Great food. Staff very good too.

I dined at Platform 1864 with my partner and, unfortunately, it left much to be desired. In all honesty we don’t really understand where all these 5 stars reviews come from. And we agree with the ones that say that the restaurant is just average and too expensive for what is capable to offer. The location itself lacked any distinctive personality or charm. The restaurant is located in Tain's former railway station but it doesn’t necessarily mean cool. It’s just a restaurant near a train station in an area where there isn’t much else. The whole experience felt pretty forgettable. The menu, while offering a standard and generic British selection of dishes that ailed to stand out in any meaningful way is far from being special or at least original. The food was average at best, lacking the depth of flavor or creativity you'd expect for the prices they charge. Speaking of which, they were noticeably above average, especially when considering both the quality of the food and the rather uninspired location. If you offer a risotto for more than £21 you better make sure that is the best in the world. The burger was quite a letdown. The patty was dry, lacking the juiciness and flavour. To make things worse, the bread looked cheap, falling apart after the first bite. It did nothing to complement the burger, and the overall experience was bland and unsatisfying. For the price, we expected much better quality. Unfortunately, this burger missed the mark completely. My girlfriend was really looking forward to trying the sticky toffee pudding, but unfortunately, it didn’t live up to expectations. The dessert came out partially burnt, which completely overpowered the sweet, rich flavors it’s supposed to have. The texture was also off—drier than it should be, and lacking that moist, gooey goodness you'd expect from a proper sticky toffee pudding. It was also served literally with half strawberry (with the leaves still on it) cut in half and a small raspberry. It wasn’t the worst we’ve had, but certainly not the best either. A real letdown, especially since it’s such a classic dessert at £8.50. The service was equally underwhelming. The staff seemed disengaged and inattentive, which took away from the overall dining experience. For the first time in a while nobody asked us if everything was alright. I asked for a coffee that never showed up until I asked for it a second time to a different waitress. I wasn’t expecting to have it removed from the bill but it could have been an act of kindness from the staff. I mean not the worst experience ever but sadly, this is not a place I would rush back to and in all honesty I won’t even recommend to colleagues or friends. It’s just an expensive place that offers standard pub food.

The food was very, very tasty 👍 The staff was very friendly 👍👍👍

The Breakfast was delicious and presented beautifully. I could go as far as saying that this was the most enjoyable breakfast I've had. The haggis and Tattie Scone were delicious. Highly recommend if you're in this neck of the woods! 5 🌟

Great fish supper. Nice place. Decent prices.

Excellent setting, staff very efficient. Food 1st class. Highly recommended A+++

The best breakfast I’ve had in a long time! Definitely worth a visit, lovely quirky little place. The service and the girls in there were also really nice! Deffo would return if ever in Tain again. Highly recommend

Great food. We has lunch and the tomatoe soup was awesome.

Cozy place with friendly and helpful staff. Ordered a hamburger with fries. Good food, but unfortunately the hamburger was a bit dry. But don't hesitate and go here,.

Lovely meal with good selection of wine and beer. Service was friendly and efficient.

Very nice restaurant where the staff did what they could during the entire visit Took a hamburger which unfortunately was a bit dry However, the side dishes were very good such as sauce and fries Can be highly recommended

Nice restaurant, good food and friendly staff.

We called on a Sunday lunchtime and it was busy, so we had to wait for our food. The food when it came was excellent.

Value per person poor, small portions. Service very slow & staff not engaging. Lack of atmosphere. Sticky toffee pudding tough and pannacotta tasteless.

A long wait for a big plate with an overpriced small portion.

Everything was absolutely amazing. We got the sausages and pork. Yum! Staff were all so friendly and polite

Absolutely love this place. The way it has been done is welcoming and relaxing. Graham and all of his staff are friendly and welcoming. The food is amazingly good. We've visited a number of times since moving to Tain 3 months ago, sometimes with friends who were visiting and they love it too. They are always happy to adapt the menu to our veggie tastes. I strongly recommend visiting for a meal or just a drink.

After a tired day of driving it was great to get a table here. Called ahead about 30 min prior and they fit us in. The food was delicious. Seafood chowder is a must. Roast rump with a yorkie my wife and I split and they put into 2 separate plates. Highly recommended. Very happy with this place !!!

Great food, great service. Very dog friendly.

The food was very good when the ordered food arrived. First the wrong food arrived and we complained to the manager who scolded us! No customer service from the angry manager.

Excellent food of high quality and attractively presented. Cozy atmosphere. All in all, highly recommended.

The food is pretty good, and the staff is really friendly, professional, and kind.

The location looked promising and so did the menu. But unfortunately it was no longer possible to get in at 8.35pm, as the kitchen was apparently already closed at that time. The fact that four service staff were standing around with nothing to do and the restaurant was still full didn't seem to matter. This business must be doing fantastically well if it can afford such behaviour. Alternatively, they could also offer a limited selection of quick meals and be customer-friendly.

Former train station building. A good restaurant, nice atmosphere.

Really accommodating, friendly staff. Great cocktails, fantastic food. Highly recommended 👌

Lovely place, lovely staff, gluten-free options. Felt it was overpriced for the food, but decent enough

Host is amazing very welcoming. Showed us how to do a boomerang . Food is amazing .recommended this restaurant to anyone .well worth a visit .

The food here is incredibly delicious and generously portioned. The ambiance is very beautiful and the space is quite large. Highly recommended!

Nice varied selection for lunch. The staff were lovely and didn't rush us (we spent 4 hours there 😂) Easy for the train! Definitely go back, first class experience 👍🏻

Very nice place located in I'll station buildings. Busy when we were there and there was a shirt wait for our table. Burgers were OK. My wife had a dish from the specials menu that she said was excellent.

What a corker of a place, super decor and ambience, lots of space and the food, oh my god sublime great choice of Gluten Free options I had the scampi and the other had halibut in a white sauce, absolutely divine.

Top. Super nice service, water for the dog. Ribeye steak great, to the point. And extremely tasty too. If I were to be here again... I'd be happy to do so again at any time.

Nipped in for a last minute lunch and enjoyed the comfortable covered patio space. Very attentive and kind servers. The Haggis Bombs were a great first time eating proper haggis, and the sticky toffee pudding was delicious. Appreciated the affordable lunch sandwich (/toastie/panini) options.

Super delicious food but sweet portions were small considering their price

Spicy chicken burger was outstanding. Seriously one best burgers I’ve had. Staff where a tab slow when waiting at bar for a bar. That’s only complaint. Food is 5 stars tho

Really good food. Staff were very nice. Last orders at 22.15 then chucked 15mins later. Ridiculous on a Friday night.

Lovely place food is excellent though today just popped in for a lovely coffee present polite staff always a pleasure to visit here

Great restaurant, loved the food and drinks. Also nice to have so close to the train.

Very popular in the evening, I was glad we had booked. Staff went out of their way to provide vegan food and adapted the menu. I had a tomato and basil risotto and my partner sausage and mash. There was a lovely side salad that went with the risotto.

Have been here a few times and seems to be a hit or a miss. Enjoy the cocktails but we ordered cocktail trees which said we could get certain cocktails but then we were told on the night (at the time there was only 3 tables in) that they’d be too busy to do certain cocktails on it which is a shame. We enjoyed our starters but they were quite small, enjoyed the mains but had bread and butter pudding but had to put it back as we couldn’t get our fork through it unfortunately.

I stopped for a while during my journey to the north of Scotland. The dog-friendly restaurant, great service and the proximity of the park where my dog ​​could run made me very happy.

Very good dishes, original decoration.

We booked in for dinner on a reasonably quiet evening and felt we were crammed in to a tight corner with 2 other tables where we could hear every word of their conversations. There were very many free tables available and probably should have asked to move. The food was fine but not exceptional

What you can do with an old train station and still have a pub. An enterprising boss, an attentive waiter, an extensive menu and everything in good quality. Fits!

Great recommendation from our tour guide at Glenmorangie - wonderful little pub and kitchen just a short drive from the distillery. Good selection of draughts and food. Lemon drizzle cake was fantastic!

Very good recommendation from the owner of Shandwick house b and b , great food , nice service in a very cool venue , an old railway station building converted into a smart restaurant. Awesome cocktails as well , especially the espresso martini

Another wonderful visit. We love trains and good food, so this suits us. This time we bought our dog g and enjoyed the very comfortable bar area. Excellent service from friendly staff. We will return.

Excellent restaurant in the old railway station building. Full of Victorian charm and cracking food. We had our dog with us so were asked to sit in the bar, which was lovely and comfortable. I had a haggis panini which was really nice. Worth the detour from the A9

Just dropped in on an impromptu visit. A warm welcome, lovely decor and service was top notch. We had 3 courses, each with every one beautifully presented and tasting even better. Our 2 Golden Retrievers Ollie & Inver were made very welcome too, and petted by everyone. We will certainly be back…..every course being served by the kitchen looked absolutely fabulous. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Lovely inside with wonderfully attentive (but not overly so) staff. The menus had something for everyone and the 3 of us all took from the al la cartè and were all very happy, particularly my son with his braised beef I think it was. We were even more so with our desserts, especially the sticky toffee pudding. We'll definitely e back. I recommend booking as it quickly started to fill around 6.

Great service, wonderful food. Delightful team. Highly recommend.

Stopped for a pint, but once we saw they had some vegan options, we decided to stay for dinner. Can thoroughly recommend the 'homemade vegan burger'!

Great place for dinner. Lots of choice. Efficient friendly staff.

Kitchen was suddenly closed at 7:26 PM while they are open until 10:00 PM. Worthless

Lovingly furnished and prepared place. Delicious breakfast (don't miss the sausages, they are better than many others.)

Came in by pure chance, and it's was the highlight of the day. Great atmosphere, great food and perfect service. Would definitely recommend. Much love from Denmark

Absolutely delicious! Great food, lots of options, gluten free and veggie options available, super quick service and really friendly staff. They kindly kept the kitchen open longer for us as we called ahead saying we’d be 15 mins too late to order

What a place! Very welcoming, very accommodating, the food was lovely. I would definitely recommend.

A strange mixture of good atmosphere with below average service and above average prices for average food . We booked a table for 7pm and didn't get our food served until 8:30. We were told at the start our table wasn't ready . When we reached our table they not have enough menus … another delay . The food was good pub food but arguabley over priced £21 for a risotto ? Expected something a bit more special . Maybe last night was not the usual wait and service? if you are looking for average pub food and willing to pay top end prices its the place to go

Lovely place, food was amazing and customer service fantastic. Would highly recommend. We stopped for breakfast before our journey back to Edinburgh

A great find. Lovely atmosphere, very happy, friendly staff and great food. Highly recommend

The food was excellent, the general waiting and bar staff were superb, but unfortunately, the restaurant manager did not seem to deal with the pressure very well. He was very abrupt (not rude) and made it a less enjoyable experience than it would have otherwise been. I get that they were busy, but a smile and friendly persona is paramount when dealing with the public. I would recommend the restaurant, but he did make it an uncomfortable atmosphere.

Great place for a drink and yummy food, dog friendly too!

Ignore Parisa. We were at Platform 1864 that night too. Graham and his staff bent over backwards to accommodate everybody. When we first arrived late in the evening to a packed restaurant, he was super clear that he had his team would do their best to make it work but that they were stretched. We made ourselves comfortable at the bar and enjoyed some local beers and enjoyed the atmosphere. When we were shown our table, we were treated to a terrific meal. We enjoyed ourselves so much that we made a reservation for the next night. Couldn’t recommend this place enough.

Platform 1864 was so good we didn’t bother trying anything different on our second night in Tain. The first night we came late into a jam packed restaurant and Graham, the owner, went out of his way to let us know that he and his staff would do everything they could so we wouldn’t go home hungry… and we walked home a couple of hours later raving about the 5 star meal we had. Graham’s stories, the food, and the overall atmosphere were all top notch. This spot is worth the drive from many town’s over.

The service was awful as well as staffs. It took more than an hour to prepare our food for five people.

A brilliant place, arrived with no booking, so had a short wait but enjoyed a drink and looking at the conversation from station to restaurant. Staff where lovely good great, portion size perfect and all the plates we could see went back to the kitchen empty

Very nice place. In an old station. Large choice of dishes and very good. Welcoming staff. We recommend.

Great place for a delicious lunch and a pint..friendly and very courteous staff

If you want to eat the worst burger in the world for 17,95 £ this is the place!

Absolute gem of a place just off NC500. The food and beer are of a very high standard. The decor and vibe are done with real care and the staff gave exceptional service. Even the toilets are beautiful! I could have stayed all afternoon and evening!

Really good spot, good food, service and setting. Also a decent ale selection.

Very tasty food. Very nice service. Nice clean toilets. Nice beer on tap. Enough choice. Ample parking. I only saw the train pass by once.... Hahaha, very nice restaurant made from an old train station.

My family and I had a wonderful experience at Platform1864! The Brie and cranberry panini is to die for. Service was friendly and efficient. 👍🏼

Great food with a varied selection to suit all dietary requirements. Rib eye was done to perfection. Good selection of beers and whisky. Perfect location with outdoor covered seating. Very friendly and helpful staff - the place has a good atmosphere. Recommended if you visit Tain

We were staying in Tain and was recommended Platform 1864 as it was dog friendly, but when arriving on a Saturday early evening on a chilly evening, was told no dogs in the bar, but you can go in the pub garden, also music was very loud and felt it was more like a disco club, with hardly any tables to sit around. I wouldn't recommend this place if you want a quiet meal and have a dog

Very spacious, beautiful restaurant with flair. The service was friendly and accommodating. We had a delicious cider, broccoli cream soup, a burger, quiché and fries (chips) and everything was super tasty.

A wonderful restaurant with very friendly, funny, competent staff. The food is very, very good and is prepared very quickly. I was here twice and, if I had been here longer, I would definitely have eaten there more times.

This restaurant served full Scottish breakfast and was fantastic. Indoor restaurant is beautiful and outdoor area is great and covered.

One of the best meals I have had in Scotland so far on our NC500 trip, going clockwise, so had a few dinners so far. The cheesecake is to die for. 10/10

Exceptionally nice. Cannot be faulted. This time we only had tea and cakes and again delicious. The atmosphere is outstanding with really pleasant staff.

had a great few days up in the highlands and dined here two nights, fantastic place, great staff, great ale, fantastic food. many thanks to Graham and staff for a warm welcome and hospitality. 180.

Excellent restaurant and pleasant service

It's quite expensive. I got mussels for a starter at £12.50, with it came half a panini, & dad got them for a main at £24. The only difference was that dad got a pot of chips & a whole panini. Same amount of mussels, so he paid £12 extra for a pot of chips & half a panini. Dad got tomato soup to start with, & it was roasting hot (which is good). The food is average, but not fantastic. It's pub grub. Service was good & friendly. Won't be going back though.

Delicious food and awesome place. Lots of history and character. Owner was around and very gracious to share his amazing story of the place with us.