The best restaurants in North Ayrshire South West Scotland

Quick visit on a busy Thursday night. Staff are good and decor is nice. Good menu and kids menu. Wide selection of drinks. Margherita pizza was simple and tasty. Pasta alla Puttenesca was very good but a measly portion, could have done with same amount of spaghetti again. Very expensive garlic bread with cheese: five thin slices of ciabatta priced and £5.50?! Very poor. Also both pizza and pasta were hot but served on very cold plates. Could be better with a few small touches. Pints of Peroni well pulled and good value.

Called in on a Saturday for a quick bite before heading on to Gourock. My wife had pie, chips and beans. The pie was very ordinary and the chips had burnt ends. My Sweet Chilli wrap was nothing special - the chicken felt like it was pre-digested and the sweet Chilli sauce insipid.

Always cooked fresh when ordered can mean you need to wait when busy but well worth it tried fried pizza in bread crumbs for the first time and omg it was so good

Been told that someone else must apologise for my party antics. Hell will freeze over and Popeye will find a new Olive before that will happen. Sadly will miss Conner ( barman ) and Ryan ( dj )

Excellent coffee. Delicious cakes, scones , and biscuits baked every morning on the premises by owner John Copperwheat. Friendly service. Convenient location opposite the ferry terminal. Highly recommended

Just spent 4 nights at this lovely hotel, location is brilliant to go and visit other area,s, the hospitality of Theresa and Yasser the owner,s went above and beyond what u would expect. The food was 100% presented well and tasted beautiful, all the staff were really pleasant and very helpful if we needed anything, would highly recommend paying this gorgeous place a visit, will definitely book again

food amazing definitely recommend

The service was a bit slow but the fish supper and the haggis were very tasty. The girls were pleasant and the place was spotless.

A lovely Farm shop, selling lots of little gifts along with the yummiest of food. Their Beef and Venison Pies are scrumptious, as was the Macaroni Cheese pie. There is also a Restaurant/Tea Room, serving delicious local food and all so farm fresh. For children, there is a play area and a some cute farm animals to keep them entertained. A must visit if you are in the area

Stayed tor 3 nights. I found the staff very friendly and bent over backwards to ensure we enjoyed our stay. Breakfast is a continental delivered on a tray to our door they were happy to do at 5am in the morning. We ate in the pub each evening and found the food homemade and good value. There was fresh towels everyday, ample shower gel tea and coffee. We will definitely recommend.

Firstly, I did try to make these comments privately to the venue, but have had no reply to my request for a contact (sent nine days ago). This is what I planned to send. "We were guests for a lovely evening out with friends last night, which is why the evening should have been memorable. You were busy, we were happy to wait for our table. Orders were taken for drinks, but one drink was forgotten and instead of two Slimline tonics and one regular, we were brought two regular tonics and one Slimline. We made do with one of each. In a top class establishment, I’d expect wait staff to operate a ‘silent service’ method where they adopt an easy method of marking their orders pad to enable drinks to be delivered without interrupting conversation. Obviously you don’t train staff to do this, or it appears, to train staff at all. When the waitress came with the missing soft drink, she put it on the table when the person’s hand was outstretched to take it. She did this without making eye contact with the customer. If it’s your policy to do this, she should have said. We were taken into the dining room and seated. Only some time later, when asked “Are youse ready to order?" did the waitress realise we had not been given menus. Incidentally, I’ve yet to come to The Canny Crow and not be addressed as “youse”. One guest asked for bread to be served with starters (he wasn’t asked if he wanted brown or white bread, maybe you don’t have both?) It didn’t come without a reminder. When it did it was supermarket white bread. More bread would have been handy with the pâté which came with approximately a quarter of a slice of toast.“It was nice, but when you eat pâté on its own like that it’s like eating lard.” Why did you skimp on the cheapest thing on the plate? Four out of six mains were served. We couldn’t start eating as we had no cutlery. After some time we had to ask for the other two mains. One of our guests went to the bar and asked for “knives and forks” the waitress brought knives only. We had to ask for vinegar, we weren’t offered it. We helped ourselves to mayonnaise. Service was so slow that by the time we ordered Irish coffee it was after “last orders”. It had been announced (at 10 pm), but this meant that you lost revenue. To top it all, someone started to vacuum when we were still in the room. I had no idea you closed so early, but a polite word to the person who booked would have prevented the ignominy of being virtually thrown out. Throughout the evening, it appeared that unlike previous managers, the person in charge stayed at the corner of the bar, and appeared to be a barman, rather than the person making sure the place was running smoothly. Staff were pleasant, perhaps not exactly friendly, but the blame would appear to lie with management who have failed to train them in the basics. If you want to incentivise them, remind them that you have plenty of American guests and they will benefit from high tippers if service improves. I’m telling you all this because I want The Canny Crow to succeed. I love the venue - it’s a bit out of the way and an expensive taxi ride home, but it would be worth it to bring guests to a world class venue with a stunning view. It is NOT worth risking bringing guests who I want to showcase the best of Ayrshire to when the service is so appalling. Frankly, you should be ashamed of embarrassing your guests. "

Lovely coffee. Lovely warm staff and generally a nice atmosphere. Homemade scones and well priced foods.

A bit overpriced , I thought , for what you get on their smallish dinner plates . Chips are nice , but food had no presentation . Also , pub was really cold . Sorry to say , I have had nicer meals in other places locally , and not as dear.

Ordered a chicken fried rice. Came well within the delivery time. Open the tub and all I had was fried rice and chicken. No peas, ham or even egg. Called the shop and was told this is how they do it. I have been a customer for 10 years and never had a chicken fried rice like this before from the Rice Paper. Owner was very adamant that I was wrong. Standards have slipped since they installed Foodhub. Unfortunately I wont be ordering from here again, which is such a shame.

Best Chinese in Irvine and it's not even close, tried half the menu and all of its amazing, defo recommend to anyone