Torphichen Inn in West Lothian

I went as part of a tour group. Overall, it was a fun night with respect to the entertainment. The facility is adequate, and ok considering the area. The food was not great. Limited menu selection and small portions. I had salmon. It was a very small portion and mostly raw. No one ever checked on whether there were any problems with the food.

Had my wedding here on the first of September Having been to many a Scottish night here there was only one place we wanted our wedding and that was at the Torphichen Inn We weren’t disappointed. Kenny and his staff were excellent, the food was amazing and the haggis to die for. Everything was perfect and we wish we could do it all again this weekend. I have just spoken to one of our guests and she said it was a better wedding than her granddaughter had at the five star Cameron House Hotel on Loch Lomond. I’ve got to agree Kenny and his staff made our wedding five star and further party’s we have will definitely be at the Torphichen Inn

where do i start ..we visited this wee gem yesterday for our friends wedding.it was fantastic .i cant believe i stay just 20 mins from this place and yesterday was the first time i was there .the place is beautiful ,oldy worldy ,the staff were the most charming and helpful ive ever had the pleasure to be with .the food was outstanding ,the wedding itself ,wow,i have never been to anything like it and to top it off the prices yes the beer was only £3.50 i thought it was a mistake .i hope we get invited to another wedding here failing that i might just do one of the scottish bus tours which actually stop here ,just to have some more fantastic memories ..thankyou to all the staff ,and a special thanks to the wee guy with the haggis i hope his collegues paid up his bet xxx

Visited the Scottish tour last night .. what a fabulous event music laughter and a sprinkle of whisky Food was amazing Graeme the piper was fantastic Kenny and his team were so hardworking and just lovely Can’t praise these nights enough

This place is a hidden gem! They have delicious food and treat you like family! John the owner and all of his family and staff are so warm and welcoming. Chris our entertainer for the night was a mix of our American singers John Denver and James Taylor! And we loved the old Scottish songs he shared with us, especially the last song when John and family and staff all joined in to sing us a fond farewell. Don’t miss out on experiencing a bit of home away from home!

Incredibly welcoming! It was like having dinner with the family. The food was amazing!!!

Excellent village bar great atmosphere

This was an amazing experience! Food, service, and entertainment was amazing! If I ever return to Scotland I will be back!

A lovely place to have a good Scottish meal with vey hospitable hosts. The best place for Scotland's national dish--hagis, served with whiskey sauce.

Visited as part of a tour group for an evening of brilliant Scottish food, music and fun! We really enjoyed it here, food was superb (the Haggis delightful), music was excellent and our hosts very entertaining! Would highly recommend for a wee bit of Scottish culture when travelling through!

What a delightful evening! The food was outstanding, the staff absolutely charming, and the entertainment (Lads Wi' Gear) were great. I couldn't have asked for a nicer evening out.

Visited for dinner as part of a bus tour group, and really didn't know what to expect. It was fantastic! The owner/host was great, the music was excellent, and the food was terrific! The haggis was the best I'd ever tasted, and I've had a lot! The drinks and Scottish spirit was flowing freely, and made for an incredible experience. I don't know how anyone could have a bad experience here, it was absolutely one of the highlights of our trip. Highly recommend!

Great evening of food and entertainment! Kenny is personable and kept everyone engaged. The music and dancing were wonderful, and the haggis was delicious.

A warm welcome with Scottish flare will greet you here. A unique atmosphere with delicious food. Scottish hospitality at its best.

Visited as part of our Trafalgar trip. The Inn was a highlight of the trip. Great food, best haggis I’ve ever had, great entertainment and a fun place to visit. The owners are a delight and highly recommend

Love the vibes!! Great atmosphere, food and service! Fresh Shepherd’s Pie 🥧 ! Last finale Singing “will ye no come back again” by the service crew left me emotional!! Will definitely be back AGAIN!!!

Very cultural friendly Scottish people..highly recommend to learn true Scottish tradition

Great place with great people and food. I tried the haggis.

Amazing! The owners are something else, they talked to us about the history of the place and were super friendly. The food and service were spectacular. They insisted we sample some Haggis which I was excited about. All they asked was that we try it, and surprisingly it was pretty good.

Highlight of my trip! Well worth the drive from Edinburgh. Food and hospitality were the best I've ever experienced.

This is a must for all travelers. The owner is personable and takes great pride in his service offering all a Scottish experience that you will never forget. I can’t say enough about our wonderful visit. If I could give more than 5 stars, I would.

Excellent place to have a dinner. The food and entertainment were great,

We just had the most magical experience here!! I felt like part of Kenny’s family the entire evening. We were a tour group so our experience may be a bit different, but the owner and staff were so welcoming and genuine. The food was delicious and we enjoyed the ceremony of the haggis which was, indeed, the best ever. Very well prepared and delicious. Loved the Scottish folk songs. I’d love to go back! ❤️

I enjoy a lovey folklore dinner hosted by a friendly and helpful staff.

We went with out tour group. What a wonderful experience we had here. Kenny is a fabulous host, and the staff are very friendly. Loved the piper and the live music.

If you're in the U.K. Don't miss an opportunity to visit Torphichen Scotland. More than a living museum, The Inn is adorned by a large Red Cross. Built in A.D. 1119 by the co-founder of the Knights Templar, Hugues de Payen. Kenny Craig is the proprietor. A Scot through and through and a fine baritone ready to share a folk tune or two. Pipers make you know you're in Scotland. Greg Moody painted fantastic murals in the Pub that tell the tale of the Robert Burns poem Tamoshanter using townsfolk as the models for the characters. The banquet hall is adorned with his murals of famous Scots and their stories. Tour buses are treated to a taste of real Scotland. Including the blessing of the Haggis. Did I mention he makes the best haggis in all of Scotland. It doesn't get any more real than Torphichen where William Wallace held Parliament across the street in the ancient preceptory and graveyard where Templars lay. The staff and entertainment are top notch. The location is surreal. Catch a bus tour. Place it on the top of your bucket list. You won't be disappointed.

Truly a fantastic experience of authentic scotish dining.

Was at an evening for St John's and food was lovely and staff serving first class. Great evening.

Great chicken dish, good haggis, good parfait dessert. Would recommend. Irn Bru is a good drink as well. Staff were very friendly.

The food was delicious. They do a wonderful addressing the haggis, and the performances they did were great. We went with a tour group and had the restaurant to ourselves so I’m not sure if the performances are an every day opportunity but if you have the chance to listen to the live music and see the dancer and the bagpipe player it’s well worth it. Great experience and the staff was lovely.

The people, the establishment, and the food were out of this world. I highly recommend this place.

Exceptional group dining experience with EFGo Tours! The staff treated us as if we we locals. The facility was warm and well kept and the Haggis was the BEST in the area, a must try if you don't know.

This establishment of full of ancient history of the St John's Knights and it's owners really give you a great Scottish experience. They piped in the Haggis and were all amazing. Well done!

Enjoyed a traditional Scottish dinner and the meal could not have been more delicious and I was made to feel like part of the family! What a great experience!

It was a wonderful Halloween experience! Food and service was excellent. Best haggis I've ever had.

Seriously THE BEST haggis. They do not lie. I had tried some at the hotel this morning and it was fine but this was incredibly delicious! Absolutely should be on everyone's bucket list.

Highlight of our visit to Scotland! Real Scottish food, culture, bagpipes, all the things!! Great family, absolute must do!

We had dinner there with band bagpipes and Scottish dancing . Great customer service Great food and it was the best night. Thanks Kenny Craig and staff for looking after us all .👍👍👍👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Excellent service great food great entertainment

Great food and entertainment. Friendly and talented host.

Family owned, very quaint, personal, and intimate. Excellent food, service, and entertainment. They make you feel welcomed as part of the family. Looking for small town flavor, this is the place to go.

Tour group visit to the Inn hosted by the owner was a highlight of our trip. Drinks ready upon arrival, holding umbrellas out for us all to the doorway was a precursor to the extraordinary service that would last throughout the night. Very chilled live music during dinner was not overbearing and the show was very authentic. This is what I like to believe Scottish life must be like all the time. Personal recipe of Haggis that we felt needed to be done (surprising tasty) and dinner was like a home cooked meal, not the standard production line of food expected for large groups. Great surprise of a local Highland dance which topped off a great evening, then all the staff came out to sing goodbye. Just a very real experience with locals who genuinely take pride in their heritage, food and service. Really enjoyable night

Wonderful, warm, a true experience

Kenny--owner treated us like family. It was a wonderful evening of food, song, and dance

Wonderful host and staff, great food.

It was a wonderful evening. A true Scottish experience.

This is what everyone is looking for when wanting the genuine Scotish Pub experience. The licencee with cook, serve a beer and sing. A must do moment in every travellers journey.😊❤️

Small village pub with good food and local entertainment

Great night excellent food and hospitality

Fantastic experience! They did the whole haggis ceremony with bagpipes and all. Food was great. Even the haggis was tasty.

This was our favorite night in our 12 day tour of Scotland! The entertainment was wonderful - a mix of bagpipes and more standard folk pub music. The food was the best Scottish food of the trip. The haggis was delicious, especially with the whisky sauce. This is definitely worth the drive!

Thank you to Kenny and the rest of the amazing team who created the ultimate experience here. Was such an enjoyable night and the service, music, dancing and fantastic food (tried haggis for the first time) were of the highest standards. Highly recommend you go here.

What a great time our tour group had here! The haggis ceremony was a great experience. And the haggis / whisky sauce in itself was AH MAY ZING. Now.... the BEST cheesecake I've ever had was here. The Torphichen Inn's Tablet Cheesecake was SO GOOD. (No apologies to New Yorkers) I will die on this hill. It is THAT good!

Wonderful evening of great food, music, stories, songs, haggis tasting and great Scottish hospitality. Thanks so much.

I can’t say enough great things about this place!!! This was my second visit and I have so been looking forward to it. The food is amazing—I had the leek and potato soup and the salmon—but absolutely don’t forget to try the haggis. The live music was great and Kenny, the owner (I don’t know why I called him Robert in my last review, so sorry!) is amazing. You can tell he truly loves his work and entertaining people. It was a pleasure to visit again. If you are ever around Edinburgh, you won’t regret taking the short drive (about 30 min) to the Torphichen Inn for dinner!

Kenny and his team give you a fantastic SCOTTISH WELCOME into his family - what an incredible authentic experience- very humbling and Haggis is delicious😋

Great atmosphere and friendly staff. Strongbow cider on draft

Absolutely wonderful group sharing their home and culture with us. Great show, great company, great food, and just a very nice evening away from the tourist route. Highly recommend Kenny 🤙

Great food. Great drinks. Great atmosphere. Great hosts. Fantastic night out on our Trafalgar tour with our Tour Directer Ed tonight. We also happen to be celibating our 25th wedding anniversary , a night to remember.

Well all I can say is what a great night for tourists, our host Kenny was terrific, the band great and what a top piper and the meal was really good, wish this was our local pub, definitely worth a visit.

What a great night out! A real Scottish experience. The place was cozy, the food was wonderful (loved the Haggis!) Kenny the host is so charming, I could listen to him all night. The Scottish dancing, the piper and the gentlemen playing guitar and singing all made this the best night in my 11 day tour of Great Britain.

Had a lovely night. The host sang a beautiful Eric Bogle song that I will never forget. The meal and the entertainment was great.

Great night out, lovely meal and entertainment. Wonderful host, very enjoyable night.

Kenny and crew were top of the line. We were treated to fine food, drink, and song. Scottish hospitality at its best. Haggis literally the most flavorful in Scotland...

A great venue for a group function. Great staff and service.

A fabulous inn with amazing friendly staff. Had an great night there especially the piping in of the Haggis.

Great venue with incredible hosts and fine entertainment.

Excellent environment and food! Life entertainment was priceless !!! Will definitely come back .

A sad end for a once legendary pub. (It's not a pub anymore) Events can be booked to the best of my knowledge but another loss to an area that already has lost both its shops.

Staff were efficient and friendly. Food was good.

Excellent freindly staff and locals historic building but with good clean facilities

Great Haggis night. Well done Kenny and crew.

The food, atmosphere were fantastic and there are not words to describe this establishment hospitality We were made to feel like family from the time we arrived until they waved good by to us outside their door, Best haggis you will ever taste, try it even if you have never eaten it before. The music and entertain was great. A mix of Irish Traditional songs and some newer offerings from Scotland's newer artist. Our visit was truly a highlight of our travels to the UK

Wonderful! Kenny and everyone were great!!

Scottish Night! Major highlight of my Tour! This was on our Trafalgar Tour..we were piped in & offered Scottish Whiskey to warm us.. The owner is known for his delicious Haggis.. was not going to try it..but glad I did..delicious..he even had it blessed by the Piper .. our food was delicious..entertainment Old Scottish Dancer & Music... such a memorable night.. everyone in this Group was delighted! I hope to return 😊

Had the best night here. The cuisine is well cooked and tasty. Served with love. My group was made to feel very welcome you need to visit this place ASAP. I’ve been here twice now. Last time was the night the Queen passed away. Everyone was so moved by her loss. Kenny is an amazing man, an ex soldier and a gentleman. Shared a tear with him on the night.

Fantastic place to sit by the fire and catch up with friends over a pint. Thoroughly enjoyed my visit.

What a glorious experience! Great food, wonderful music, and warm, friendly hosts. Highly recommended!

Our first evening in Scotland. And what a warm welcome! Our tour group was piped in and the evening was a delight for the senses! Our innkeeper is such a charmer and great ambassador! The food was outstanding, and the haggis is said to be the best in Scotland. Certainly the best I’ve ever tasted. The live music and highland dancing were added highlights.

I went here with Trafalgar Tours. The owner opened up just for our group that night. It was an amazing experience all the way - from the bagpiper at the entrance to the dessert. It is a family run restaurant. There is singing and dancing. The haggis is ceremonially brought in and the owner brings it to every person to sample. I had sworn not to taste any haggis and so far I had kept my word. This man is so sincere and wants to please all his guests that I had to taste it. He did not force me at all, this was my choice. It tasted like sausage and was very good! We felt so taken care of and the food was WONDERFUL! It brought tears to my eyes at the end of the visit because the feeling was so hospitable and warm. This is a must do!

Our group was met by the landlord who greeted us all individually, food was truly exceptional and truly some of the best we have eaten in Scotland and that includes the haggis. Now a convert, tasty though a little peppery and the haggis fritter was a wonderful entree, beef and ale pie rich and tender and all the sweets rate highly. You won't find a better country pub ! tender

Wow! Wow! Wow! On a two week tour of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, our tour director, Steve Morris with EF Go Ahead Tours made arrangements for a special excursion to visit the quaint village of Torphichen. And it was our favorite evening of the entire two week adventure! The village is historically very interesting because it was the seat of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John in Scotland right through the Middle Ages. The Knights Hospitaller, like the Knights Templar, were sort of militaristic monks who escorted pilgrims down to the Middle East during the crusades times. When we arrived in the village, we walked a very short distance to the Presbytery where a bagpipe player, Graham, was waiting for us. He told us about the Presbytery (the actual building where the Knights Hospitaller used to be) and then took us down to the Inn. It is traditional in Scotland to be piped into a venue, or perhaps a church, for example, for an important event. We where piped into the Torphichen Inn. We enjoyed an evening of singing, poetry, music, eating, drinking! We had a three course meal and, additionally a haggis taster. Kenny, the landlord, walked around all the tables with a big plate of freshly-made haggis. Everybody had a special haggis fork to take a little bite (or maybe a big bite) of haggis. Per our guide Steve who professes to be a haggis connoisseur, he said that this is without doubt the best haggis he has ever eaten in Scotland. It was much better than I expected!!! Kenny and Graham performed Robbie Burns‘s address to the haggis. The haggis was presented on a platter by Kenny with the accompaniment of Graham and his bagpipes! Kenny also sang a Scottish song. He had an excellent voice. There were two musicians that also sang. Kenny told us about life in Scotland now and in the past. It was an evening of entertainment and culture as the Scots know it and was greatly enjoyed by our group!

Excellent, staff couldn't be more helpful and food and entertainment first class.

Amazing experience. The food was fantastic. Beer and whisky were wonderful. The music was great. The staff and service were top notch. Highly recommend checking this out if you are nearby.

Excellent little pub in a beautiful town close to Edinburgh. Amazing food and hospitality!

Amazing Scottish experience and best haggis I have ever had.

We went to this restaurant as a side trip on a Trafalgar tour. It was worth every penny. The owner treated our group to an amazing dinner and entertainment he was involved in the entire evening even doing the traditional presentationof the haggis. This was one of my wanted to do items while in the UK. Go to a small town pub for a meal, drink, and entertainment. I highly recommend going to this restaurant.

Wonderful family owned and run pub. Food was delic as we listened to live music and a bagpiper. Our introduction to homemade haggis, which was good, as was the Guinness

Lovely owner, good food and entertainment. Definitely worth the ride from Edinburgh.

Worth the trip. First class experience.

Kenny is the absolute best! What an amazing night with wonderful food, friends, and music.

Great meal and excellent friendly staff. Had Sunday lunch today which was very tasty.

Dinner was lovely all home made Staff very pleasant. Will be back.

Good food friendly staff, and atmospheer.

Provided treats and water for my dog. Lovely coffee too.

Lovely Christmas meal served. Food was fabulous and such a great Scottish themed bar

great place for a pint or food...very friendly staff I recommended👌👍😉🍺🍷☕🍕

Brilliant staff food lovely eat here alot and always so so good .

Excellent food. First class service. Strongly recommended

Enjoyed a meal here. Well looked after by the staff in pleasant surroundings.