The best restaurants serving British food in Dumfries & Galloway Lowlands

A family meal to celebrate my daughter's birthday and the start of our short holiday. Fantastic food. Could not have been better. Such a variety on offer

Lovely location and brilliant staff. Vegetarian options weren't as poor as previous review reflected. Vegetarian burger was nice with a lentil pattie and vegetable pattie was very filling and not over cooked. There was also a vegetarian lasagne on the menu which my partner very much enjoyed saying it was very tasty. Also an option of cheese salad and mac and cheese which we didn't try. Overall would definitely recommend.

Popped in for breakfast. 1 vegetarian and 1 Scottish. Plenty choices, great portions, tasty maple syrup pancakes and great service. Maybe a bit pricey at almost £20 but the food was good.

Lovely surroundings and staff are excellent. Only negative is limited menu but we both had the special which was excellent.

Recently came here for coffee and pastry. Service was great, pastrie was good but coffee was terrible. Perfectly located right near the highway near the shopping center.

All the usual tourist stuff, with the accompanying prices, they do a nice range of sausage and the very illusive white pudding, this is very hard to get in England.

Amazing location just to the side of the A75 near Castle Douglas. Perfect spot to take a breath, enjoy the view and also the good coffee and flapjack that they serve. A great little find.

It's always a pleasant surprise to find a pub with a good menu using local ingredients! We ate well, the service was friendly. The pub has a large garden. This must be one of the best pubs for miles in any direction! My wife left her sunglasses behind, but Tim, the landlord, was super-helpful, finding them and posting them on. We will definitely go there again.

Excellent coffee and scone at a very reasonable price. Slightly let down by the toilet which needs upgrading , otherwise 5 stars.

The steak tasted boiled not fried and the onions were sparse and undercooked. This was not a good steak baguette. Nice service though in good surroundings.

We often visit the garden centre to break our journey often purchasing items from the shop and plants and leaving with a coffee to go. This was our last visit !!! I asked for 2 sausage rolls but changed mind after ascertaining the price ? Was shocked by the smirking by the member of staff at my change of mind. Then when I picked up my to go flat white coffees 1 cup was much lighter than the other and queried the difference and was told that’s how they come. One cup 2/3rds full and one 1/4 full. After stating again that’s how it is the asst. said I could put milk in ? Even when asked why one so empty and the other not she went off and grumbled to another colleague I was left both disappointed and angry by the behaviours and service and just wanted out. It lead me to view reviews, which summed up my experiences. Please don’t bother responding with the apparent usual response as clearly nothing is done to resolve the root causes and your reviews will no doubt continue on decline

Siempre me dijieron si pides un filete raro en un restaurante y se sirve de tamaño, el chef más probable ser británico, si es azul sirve, entonces el chef será continente europeo. Tuve la rara bife de costilla. Muy bien condimentado y cocinado a la perfección. Sin salir de mi camino para comer aquí.

Disappointing, on two counts. The first was that although I said I was eating there (not taking it away), I was still given takeaway crockery including a plastic cup. I NEVER use single-use plastic cups. I either take my own mug, or go without. But also, there was no recycling bin! It was just one dustbin, and people were putting aluminium cans and plastic and rubbish all in together. The second disappointment was that on a blazing hot day, when I thought I would treat myself to a £4 iced coffee... it was barely cold, let alone iced! It was lukewarm, basically. Having said that, the toasted sandwich was nice - they had granary bread, which made it much more substantial and nutritious. The 'salad' was a bit meagre (a few bits of lettuce, tomato, and cucumber) and might better have been called a 'garnish'. The salad was only £1 extra, but really I would rather have paid a bit more and got a bit more. It's really not hard to buy these things these days. A tub of coleslaw from Lidl's would pay for itself with one customer! I went in with such high hopes, as it was a lovely day and a lovely location, but I won't go back. It's just not worth the money.

If your call is diverted to a man with a thick, foreign accent and he invites you another hotel, near the station, do not go under any circumstances.

Called i one evening before going to theatre just for a drink. Only 2 or 3 others in the bar who clearly had too much of something and language was choice to say the least and went unchallenged by the staff on duty. I will not return.