The best restaurants in Leaderdale and Melrose Scottish Borders Lowlands

What a little gem! Was on holiday in the area and found this lovely place on google. Great friendly service, food cooked fresh and delicious. Clean and inviting. Highly recommend. Only wish we'd found it earlier.

Group of 3 couple and. Great Dane warmly welcomed for dinner on Friday night and then back for drinks on Saturday to watch the F1 qualifier which the manager kindly out on one set of screens for us. Great food, brilliant atmosphere with lively banter and a good out door under cover and heated area for drink and music as well as sports on TV. Manager and his staff were excellent, calm despite being busy, welcoming and helpful. The manager deserves recognition for a well run but easy going establishment that we would highly recommend. We will be back on our next trip.

We turned up, with our two dogs, at 7.30 on a Thursday eve. One table was free and the staff very kindly asked the dog owning diners already on the adjacent tables if their dogs would be ok with ours next to them, really nice touch. Thankfully, fellow dog owners were happy to have us sit among them. So, service: really good 👍 Ambience: We were sitting in close proximity to other dog owners so we had a lovely time 😊👍 Food: honestly, starters were great but mains were absolutely to die for! He had the fillet steak, he's a trained chef and a bit of o steak expert... said it was the best steak he's ever eaten 😊 Fish pie for me, oh my, absolutely delicious 😋 I'd definitely recommend eating here 👍

Can’t get more central in Melrose than the Townhouse. Convenient to all of the independent shops and starting point for walks. Parking is good both on-street and hotel carpark. A family owned hotel run with obvious pride. Smartly dressed staff, friendly and helpful. Superb breakfast (we’ll return for dinner.) Our room was spacious and stylish with a great view over the square and to the Eildon hills. Everywhere was immaculate. Can’t recommend enough.

Not really the best meal. The scallop and pork belly starter was disappointing and cold. Scallops weren’t really cooked well and pork belly was cold. Pumpkin puree and other sauce didn’t really work. I ordered the venison and it was hands down the worst I have ever had. Extremely chewy. The waiter appeared new and when I asked if there was a Pinot nois on the wine menu he simply replied ‘I don’t know’ and walked away. I wouldn’t go back.

Disappointed…went for breakfast. Discovered that they no longer provide gluten free bread/ bagels. So went to Abbey Fine Wines who do delicious gluten free scones.

What a combination. Lovely food and whiskey and wine to buy. Nice coffee and good service from the staff. We had our dogs with and the weather was great so we were sitting outside.

We eat Indian food everywhere we go, regularly cook it at home and we buy takeaways from different restaurants once a week. It is usually excellent. This place was the first really disappointing experience we’ve had in years. Ordered four main dishes which were all basically the same. Characterless, watery veg and really lacking in flavour, complexity and depth. Texture of each sauce was the same too. Pilau rice was just basmati stained with turmeric and the naan was flat and dense rather than fluffy and light. There is not competition for miles around but seriously… must try harder. Not at all recommended.

First time visiting this restaurant for a takeaway and really enjoyed our meal.Good portions and great value.Will certainly be back again

A lovely Sunday lunch and staff very happy and helpful. Definitely will be back. It is also dod friendly which gets a big thumbsup

Just eaten the best ever coronation chicken & salad roll. Delicious granary roll crammed with tender chicken & salad. Perfect! And very reasonably priced. Made to order. The cake selection looked awesome, proper home baked goodies,

I have stayed here on numerous occasions recently due to work commitments. Both Curt & Susie are fabulous hosts & I can not recommend this hotel enough. The rooms are modern, comfortable & clean. The honesty bar is amazing & comfortable to chill in, along with the turntables playing vinyl which I loved. I want to keep it all to myself so I can stay when I want , but that would be selfish of me. Congratulations to this lovely family running an amazing hotel where they are nothing but kind , courteous & look after their guests. Best hotel I have ever stayed in & can't wait to visit again in 2025 & catch up.

For every chocoholic, so much to choose from, so much to try, so much to buy ❤️❤️❤️ Range of yummy ice creams, hand made chocolates, and so much to discover. I was in heaven.

I actually missed out on the meal ‘out’ here, assuming chief babysitter duties. However, my wife kindly offered to bring me something back from their impressive takeaway menu. My weapons of choice - Fettuccine Alla Norcia with a side of Garlic Bread. In total, it cost around £13.40 which seemed reasonable. Based on the Pasta alone, I’d probably have given a 5/5 rating - it was creamy, deep and full of flavour with the right portion size to make you pleasantly but not over full. Then there was the Garlic Bread. When it arrived in a small Pizza box, I was excited thinking it was a Flatbread or similar. Nope. Three undercooked slices of what to me appeared like frozen Garlic Bread you buy from the Supermarket. I was actually a bit offended in all honesty - £3.50 of good money wasted. Really disappointed. The silver lining here was the Pasta and that’s why my rating sits sternly in the middle.

Clean spacious shop, huuuge portions