The best restaurants in Annandale East and Eskdale Dumfries & Galloway Lowlands

The best coffee in Langholm can never just one cup though. Our second visit this month, last time we had lunch which was lovely, chilli wrap. This time we just had coffee and a shortbread biscuit for Alfie the dog. Very friendly attentive staff. Fully reccomend.

Home bakery shop run by local lady, supplying a tasty range of products, very friendly courteous service, well worth a try if in town.

Estábamos en nuestro camino de vuelta a Escocia y pasamos por este camino, un poco de la ruta habitual. Buscando en línea en el mapa parecía que había muy poco en el camino de lugares para parar a comer algo y luego de repente encontramos la cafetería de la vieja escuela. Es un maravilloso hallazgo, le ofrecen un servicio a la zona y actúa como un centro para eventos sociales (por el calendario que juding se veía muy atractivo, pescado y patatas fritas y juegos de mesa o de una comida mexicana!). El servicio era muy amable y la comida era muy buena, tenemos la sopa de almendras con un sándwich. Hay juegos de mesa, revistas e incluso un bombín por si acaso son ciclismo! En el futuro me gustaría ser muy contentos de tomar el desvío a la carretera este a visitar de nuevo. Merece la pena quedarse en si estás en la zona.

Delicious coffee and exquisite cakes, also serve soup and homemade sausage rolls. All served by the ever helpful and smiling Carol & Nigel. Lovely gardens to walk around.

What a lovely group of people offering a fantastic service. Food was excellent. Nothing was too much trouble. Would highly recommend.

We had our wedding at The Mill Forge on 12/11/24 and our whole 2 night stay there and the wedding day was absolutely perfect. We arrived on the Monday with our 24 guests, and left on the Wednesday and every single one of our guests commented on how amazing all of the staff had been at the Mill. They asked for all of our decorations and Pauline decorated the roundhouse for us so perfectly, better than I could have done. Jamie on reception was great too! The bar/ restaurant staff and breakfast staff were all so lovely and accommodating to us all and made us feel so welcome and nothing was too much trouble. The bridal suite was perfect, with complimentary chocolates, shot glasses and Prosecco and so much space to get ready the morning of the wedding. All of our guests were so happy with their rooms too. The food was lovely, especially the breakfast which was a pleasant surprise as we didn’t know it was included ☺️. Our wedding day was perfect. The chapel looked absolutely beautiful and the roundhouse room for our meal was stunning. Every single person on that day was just amazing honestly we can not fault any of it. The day was perfect and it was so much better than we had imagined! The grounds for photographs were stunning and our photographer was absolutely lovely. The disco at night was so much fun and the staff were so accommodating in terms of music requests etc. Myself, my husband and all of our family members loved every minute of our stay here, we are SO glad we chose to have our wedding here and we would recommend it to everyone. Even my brother and his fiancé are wanting to get married here. We had a winter wedding package and I must say for the price, it was just the perfect day. We were all over the moon with all of it. Thankyou so much, I can’t remember everyone’s names but every single member of staff was brilliant though out the whole stay. Sophie & Ryan x

Really nice, welcoming and helpful people.

Great team providing a quality service, stayed for 3 nights and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nice menu and all prepared and presented nicely, all our group commented on how good the food is. Langholm is a nice friendly town and well worth a visit.

Food deliciously fresh, ambience warm. Lovely customer service. Menu quite small but great choices and very reasonably priced. Dog friendly (ours at home but met a few) We will definitely return.

Delightful cafe with cheery service and good quality good value food, an excellent alternative to motorway service stations which would have been our other choice on our journey to Scotland. Well worth the short detour.

Lovely cafe and great welcome. Food delicious and nicely presented. Don’t normally have a pudding but the home made apple pie with lots of custard superb. Just found on passing by on the A7 as saw nothing in Hawick. Will definitely return and tell my friends in Dumfries and Carlisle.

Called in for a snack and a cup of tea and to be honest nothing startling. The staff were fine but quite expensive and the food wasn’t great.

Arrived without booking, as we were unfamiliar with the area, and although the restaurant itself was full, we were generously offered a table, albeit in the bar area, which we were happy to accept. It would have been quite possible that we might have had slow service, even forgotten, but nothing of the sort; we were promptly seated with menus, our orders taken, and our meals served, all without undue delay by friendly restaurant and bar staff. The food was simple but delicious and perfectly cooked, in generous portions, and all concerned should feel proud of their contributions to such an excellent experience. Bravo!

En route to Samyeling Temple we stopped for lunch and had viewed their type of menu on web, but did not realise that the Sunday Roast Lunch was to be booked, and it was very busy. We managed to get a table but there was not enough of the roast dinner to go around but offered us soup which we were grateful for as don't think there are any other places to go for lunch near hand? My parsnip soup was lovely but my sisters vegetable and red lentil she tasted had a sour taste and I had to agree with her so she spoke to a waiter who offered to change it to the parsnip soup which was a good outcome. Lovely two slices of brown bread and two butters but I opted for the cheese scone, a wee bit dearer, but I must say was very good indeed. Usually cheese scones are not cheesy enough for me but this was good and they agreed to warm it through for me. I complimented the chef who made them who was very humble. We did not realise this is more of a community hub and not just a cafe, which must be great for the immediate locals with a place to go. It sounds an interesting place and stop off point for cyclists. Would definitely recommend going here, accept what they have to offer and enjoy.

Family orientated and a very friendly cafe. Just happened to chance upon this place whilst passing through. Good speedy service -enjoyable teas and coffees and breakfast rolls that were particularly good. Will keep this place on the "stop off" list when passing through Langholm again.