The best restaurants serving British food in Scotland

Markets itself as a as a fairly well to do venue however it very much is not. We were a group of 11 for my fathers birthday. We had to order in advance which I imagined should have allowed for a smooth fast service, it wasn’t even close. The mains for whatever reason started coming out with the starters, we sent the mains back. Starters were mediocre. Mains arrived 50 minutes later having obviously sat under the hot lamps of the kitchen pass for the duration so were very much dry. When raised with the server they said they would report it to the kitchen… nothing was done. What was edible was eaten and we waited another 50 minutes for desserts which were also mediocre. We were in the restaurant for 2.5 hrs which is an obscene amount of time for a 3 course meal never mind one that’s be en ordered in advance. The price of the dishes was at the very high end for what they were. It wasn’t busy at all there were around 15 other customers soon no idea what took so long. The place lacks atmosphere. The decor is naff and the choice of furniture is poor for a restaurant, getting in and out of the chairs around the table is difficult and the servers a forced to either lean over you or hand you the plates. The place could do so much better.

We were offered service earlier in the restaurant or the bar. We were joined by another couple for dinner. We were presented with a “special “ menu and the normal dinner menu . Two of us ordered starters and what we thought was an entree from the “special” menu. However is main turned out to be “3” scallops for £9.95. I could have bought a half lobster for that price. We also requested that the dining bill be divided between the two parties and they refused.

We booked the Frigate online well in advance of our visit to Ullapool. When I got an email cancellation at the last minute I was suspicious that their booking system had been hacked (!) but after managing to get in touch with them via Facebook Messenger (they didn't answer the phone) it turned out that they had closed because of a lack of staff. We were able to confirm that they were indeed closed when we got to Ullapool ourselves.

Note - now known as Ambrosia Cafe but the receipt still says "Annyas". Stopped by for a quick lunch whilst busy in Inverness. Had the all day breakfast at £7.99 but held the toast and ordered extra bacon and extra egg - for just another 75p. Bargain! Clearly freshly cooked - nice moist tasty sausage, quality bacon and superbly cooked eggs (not overdone nor uncooked). Tasty black pud. Can't fault it. Just the thing to fill a hole - and I always love a good full English (or Scottish!) breakfast.

A lovely restaurant with nice food and lovely helpful staff. A spacious restaurant with great views. On offer was fish and chips, macaroni cheese, steak and mushroom pie, beef and haggis olives.

We ordered lunch from here for a full office. Hot food was okay but the salads are a joke for the price. £7 for this salad and we received 1 slice of cucumber, 1 tomato wedge. The side salad had more cucumber and tomato’s in than this! Only giving two stars because the hot food was alright. Disappointing.

Lovely lunch staff were great even accommodated our doggy Daisy with some sausages..well worth the money thank you so much x

Gran parada para ciclistas. Gran café y pastel. Personal amable. Gran menú de almuerzo. Sin duda recomendaría una visita. .

Nos alojamos cerca y tuvimos un desayuno de muy alta calidad aquí. Excelente desayuno vegetariano más aguacate y huevo en tostadas. Café y zumo también servido por el personal amable. Un hallazgo definitivo en el Howdens Garden Centre.

After two trips to collect an order, as they did not accept card payments and didn’t think to say this when order was phoned in , the food was undercooked and soggy, have been before and food was ok but this was barely edible

From the moment we checked in Sandra couldn’t have done more to make us feel welcomed. Nothing was too much trouble (she even checked on a family member when they were suddenly taken ill). Fantastic service, food and cocktails were delicious, will definitely be returning, cannot recommend highly enough.

We visited but were disappointed by the decor in what was once a bright and airy bar area, it had been painted black & purple and was very uninviting, and they were only serving snacks, apparently they had staff problems, the last couple of times we have passed it has been closed and we are told it is now only a B&B - so best check in advance if intending to visit

My wife and I ate in restaurant on Saturday night, the food was amazing, and we both really enjoyed the food, BUT and there is a huge but, we were very disappointed and underwhelmed with the service and ambiance throughout the evening. Firstly, I phoned on Thursday 1st December to book a table for the 10th December at 6.30 pm, I received a phone call on Friday 2nd dec at 7pm saying that we hadn’t turned up for our booking and we were 30 minutes late. After I explained that wasn’t the date we had booked a table for they apologized and would get it sorted. We arrived Saturday at 6.25pm and was shown to our table and asked what we would like to drink. We looked at the drinks menu and I asked for a cider and my Wife asked for a brandy and Diet Coke. Only for the waiter to come back and say “sorry we don’t have any brandy” he then handed over the drinks menu again so my wife then asked for a Captain Morgan’s, only for the waiter to come back to our table to be told “sorry we don’t have that either”. She then ordered a Prosecco Rose, which was ok. We ordered our meal and as I said the food was totally amazing. We ordered our desserts, one for me & one for my wife and a cheese board to share. When the desserts came the waiter said, “ sorry to say but your table is booked for a reset at 8pm, it’s now 8.05, so could you please hurry up and eat your desserts because we need your table it’s our fault but we need the table back”. We were both left shocked and disgusted, never had we been asked this ever in any restaurant. Even though there were free tables across from us. The couple next to us asked, “Did we hear that right? They are asking you to eat up because they need your table? “ My Wife even offered to have the cheese board in the bar area if that would help but I wasn’t happy with this. After hurriedly eating our dessert the waiter came back with the cheeseboard and said “it’s ok we have jiggled the tables around and we don’t need your table now”. Your restaurant is beautifully decorated and food amazing but I have never in my life been so disheartened, angry and left speechless in my life, I would even say I will never tell anyone to book at Orrin because the service is terrible and I for one will not be back. I always leave a large tip when dinning out but, on this instance, I refused to leave a tip because of the poor service we endured. My wife sent a private message to Orrin pointing out the fact the service we were provided was shocking, but they haven’t responded.