The best restaurants serving British food in Irvine West North Ayrshire South West Scotland

A warm welcome awaits you in this little friendly restaurant by the campsite in the village. Lots of delicious options for veggies and vegans including deserts.

Lovely food and freshly cooked, it was very Good value.Atmosphere brilliant and made customers feel welcome, it makes such a difference. Will be back again ♡

I gave my order to a friendly member of staff and was very impressed when she put on a disposable glove before taking my cash, as money is one of the dirtiest things around and handled by many. Great selection to choose from, friendly, chatty staff and very reasonable prices. I have eaten from there quite a few times and have had variety from the menu and never been disappointed. Menu is on the wagon in big print so no need for single use menus.

Been coming here on and off for about 15 years , can honestly say never had a bad experience, we've had breakfast items lunch items and coffee and cake , and hope we are around for next 15 ..

I love the Brownings cakes, loads of options and always good at the weekend, as a treat, easy to get to plus all the favourites usually available.

Great little cafe which has gifts upu can also buy and great cakes!

Nice place and pretty busy with people having meals. Good choice of alcohol.

Really good food and excellent value for money. Vegan food was delicious. The first class friendly service just added to the very positive experience. Duncan's Bar and Bistro is set to be one of our favourite local eateries!

Went as a family, the ice cream was really good. Our son had the churros with ice cream and really liked it. Nice Atmosphere and nice staff. We will be back. Slide was a bonus for our youngest

Base at Irvine Cross, is well situated for the casual diner, Menu is not extensive but covers all tastes. Met up with the family for Brunch and all were happy with their choices of food. portions reasonable and all freshly made. Very friendly Staff and happy to assist with any questions and seemed to know their regulars and was a very popular place for drop-ins and take aways. Limited space and quite narrow but very clean. Well worth a visit and you want a snack or a quick bite or take away.

6 adults and 2 kids out for a birthday dinner. Lovely food and staff very helpful and friendly. Food was delicious, will definitely go again.

Just popped in for coffee and cake. Coffee was ok, but I'm afraid whoever supplies their cakes needs needs to get the basics right... like how to make a decent Scone ...dry and tasteless... and worse still... not fresh at all. Snowball was exactly the same. I've had this experience before at GGs with their cakes... all LOOK nice in the display cabinet, but I'm afraid it's all show. Better places to go. Won't be back.

Using a retirement voucher and had an early evening dinner. Decor lovely, staff very pleasant. Pity the food doesn’t match. Couldn’t eat the batter on the butter chicken as it was brick hard, onion rings hard , chips tasteless and again overcooked. Steak pie - top layer of steak was burnt and inedible. Starter bread was tasty. Took far too long to be served despite being almost empty. We mentioned to the waitress about our food and we were only charged for drinks and bread. Whilst this is a great gesture, our evening was ruined. Not be back any time soon. Such a shame as it has the potential to be excellent.

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. "

Found this place through trip advisor after having had terrible service at the Puffer which was our regular go to in Irvine. Peppermill will now be our regular place for food in Irvine. Staff were lovely, food was delicious and great value. A good range of dishes from traditional steak pie, baked potatoes to pizza & pasta.