The best restaurants in South West Scotland

We had a delicious dinner with excellent service for my wife’s 60th birthday during a visit to Arran. The scallops were fabulous and the Hake main and Venison were beautifully cooked and presented. Well worth a visit

Amazing staff and satisfied. Nice Pizza e very creamy pasta. And good quality coffee! The Owner very friendly and professional and Donna been very kind and professional!!!

Food was too die for . Dog Friendly also. Really loved the staff ethos to work hard and do it with a smile on all faces. Always clean looking also

The steak pie was delicious and a very generous portion. I should have got a certificate for finishing off the Eton Mess - wow, just about finished me off! Huge. The roaring fire and a lovely black Labrador were both what a great pub should have. Will be back.

We booked lunch at Leonardos for my mums birthday treat. She is a fairly fussy eater but we felt the lunch menu offered a great selection. The food and service were excellent , would recommend pollo Pepe and the chicken Milanese followed by the sticky toffee pudding . Wine by the glass is very reasonable priced . Have been here on a few other occasions recently and the experience has been consistently good and offers excellent value for money. Tucked up a side street a wee bit out of the way in Hamilton ,but very much worth a visit , we will definitely be back soon .

Janice at the bar was very attentive and friendly was a great experience for me and my girlfriend...certainly will be bk to see such a friendly member of staff .... thanks Janice

Really good food , great service and a dog friendly area within the restaurant-our waitress was exceptional and so attentive, our food was of the highest standard, we were given VIP treatment on the occasion of my wife's birthday and our 3 Dogs were pampered and looked after with water bowls and treats

Just had a plate of the gnocchi. I was kind of expecting the usual plate of rib sticking mush but instead I was dished up a beautifully created plate of flavours. Very impressive. Each mouthful gave a surprising wee nugget of something different. Perfectly cooked, a myriad of texture and the perfect portion size served on sparklingly clean crockery and served up by an enthusiastic and happy lass with red hair. A crisp pint of cider was an unintentionally perfect pairing. First class stuff. Thank you.

Delightful wee pub, food, atmosphere and staff were all first class. Would highly recommend 👌

Service first class, food great

This was an excellent place to take my father for his 70th birthday. A modern scottish inn with a varied menu, a a very high standard of cooking, generous portions and at a affordable cost. I believe this is likely to be one of the most visited restaurants in ayrshire despite its rural setting and certainly the flow of cars during our stay was constant. Yet due to the set up of several smaller rooms it never felt too busy and still felt intimate. Food was not slow either and quality was still good. Chilli caramel salmon was a particular hit and the banana sponge with banoffee ice cream was a treat. Service was excellent and friendly and the fire place was a roaring treat!!

Love the old chip shops. Bang for your buck and delicious food. Up there with the best. And the prices are unbeleivable. We'll done guys, keep up the tasty food.

We were a bit disappointed with our visit here. Apart from one lovely waitress the staff weren’t very attentive. Two of the younger staff were messing about behind the bar rather than serving customers. The food wasn’t the quality you would expect for the price- We had a small steak and chips with no veg and an open seafood lasagne which was really bitter.

Excellent overnight stay. Breakfast perfects. Thank you for our stay.

The good is decent enough but I always leave feeling it’s never quite worth the money. Kids meals are 9 quid and don’t even include a drink. It could easily be (and often is for us) the most expensive meal you’ll have on the island, without ever really delivering anything to justify that tag.