The best restaurants serving American food in Castle Stirling Central Scotland

Yummy burgers. I had the Smash burger, peri-peri fries and hot dipping sauce. Burger was absolutely lovely. Will visit again.

Run down. The menu board had updated prices on paper taped on top of the display and other items covered over entirely. They advertised cake, but I didn’t see any kind of fresh baked items at all. Just kind of sad. Ice cream was fine, nothing special.

My hubby and I recently had lunch and a few beers at The crossed peels whilst visiting Stirling. We both had haggis and cheese paninis. They where really tasty and piping hot. My hubby had guinness and said it was good. The staff where also really friendly and attentive. A thoroughly brilliant wetherspoons.

Thought we’d pop in for a bite to eat but the empty tables and stock strewn around the restaurant should have been a warning to us. We stayed. We ordered. We regretted it. Food was okay, apart from arriving in an order that makes Wagamama look organised. The whole place was cold though - and not just the temperature. This is a place where you keep your jacket on and your social skills unused. The ambient temperature was so cold that food presented on the table became lukewarm in minutes. Even the penguins on the table next to us were complaining about the lack of heat. Our food order wasn’t quite right (please don’t customise anything as the system appears not to compute any adaptations to the menu) and the cook appeared to be a last-minute shoe in from the bar rather than the usual trained Sous Chef we expect from such a fine eatery. Bless the staff though - they tried hard but clear that Monterey Jacks are relying on the local student population to cope with demanding customers rather than highly-trained wait staff - not that they were poor, they were doing really well in the circumstances. With a table of rowdy penguins, arctic temperatures, and an apparent lack of food storage, even Claridges would find things hard. Monterey Jacks seems to be heading the same way as Fridays. High costs, clear signs of cost cutting, and meh food suggests that their days may be numbered. Hope they can turn it around though - the penguins need somewhere to go!