The best restaurants serving Other european-cuisines food in South West Scotland

What an amazing find, they make all their own food including proper sourdough bakery goods and kombucha, perfect if you're trying to increase your microbiome or following ZOE. And, of course, all their food is delicious and it was the best coffee I've had in Ayr.

Beautiful 3course meal, service great, very friendly atmosphere.

This was our first time visiting SmithS, we went for some lunch, a two minute walk from the train station, overall a lovely restaurant and the staff were so friendly. we had a well priced bottle of red along with our food, My wife opted for the smoked duck as a starter, I had the scallops, both dishes were delicious. For our mains we both opted for the feather blade of beef after reading some positive reviews, the beef simply melted in the mouth, the silky smooth mash was a great accompaniment along with seasonal veg and jus, I'd highly recommend SmithS, an absolute gem of a restraunt, it was so chilled and it had a lovely relaxing atmosphere. We will certainly visit again.

Had an afternoon tea here just a week ago now. As I'm not a fan of an afternoon tea, I was prepared to make the best of it as my partner really likes to do this. I was delighted as we left to say I really enjoyed my experience. We had a fabulous young waitress ( sorry I can't recall her name ) , who made us feel very welcome and at each and every request we made accomplished them for us. The venue is stunning, even at a time they have major works going on. The only thing I would criticise, was the background music, truelly awful, so much so she said that it was like funeral music. We both laughed, but a little later it was becoming quite annoying. There's no place for disco music of course, but depressing elevator music didn't work for us. Everything else was excellent and our waitress was brilliant

As always, staff fab food great 😁

Great little restaurant and food was excellent - unfortunately only bottled beers

Popped in on the off chance they had availability for 7 adults and 1 child at the end of their lunchtime, was pleasantly surprised to find they could accommodate us. Both menu and meal were executed to perfection and having been to the island multiple times a year for the last 20, can not believe I have never been here. Can’t wait to go here again, staff polite friendly and entertaining and food fantastic, was a bit skeptics when I saw the prices, but when I saw the food the prices if anything were cheaper for the quality and quantity you receive.

This is lovely room with great views across the water. The young wait staff are very polite and attentive. Unfortunately that's about all we could praise on our visit. Firstly, we were seated by the window but it was very sunny and we were informed the blinds on the window were broken and couldn't be lowered to make it more comfortable for us. Then we were presented with the menu. This was substantially shorter than the menu posted on line and also on display in the entry way to the building. Most of the interesting items had been removed leaving only standard pub grub type offerings. We had chosen this venue because it had an interesting menu. We queried why the menu was different and were told that it was due to "staffing shortages in the kitchen". Given that the menu only contained standard, and in our opinion quite simple, items we would have expected them to be excellent. Our prawn starter was meant to be in tempura batter but it was a much thicker batter than that. Not unpleasant by any means but not what we expected. In the mains one of our party had to send back his fish and chips. The batter was overcooked and quite dark brown, but the fish inside was considered undercooked. When this was remade it was better and at least edible but by no means good. The other choices were okay but not exactly great. The Mac and cheese was quite dry and could have used more cheese sauce. At least the staff took off part of the cost of the bill and offered us a free tea or coffee to make up for our disappointment.

Been before was really nice I've been told its closed now

Got served eventually by staff after they came over was seated. Asked if we wanted drinks, I said Yes explained what we wanted. Brought drinks over. 20 mins later waitress came over "what you want then" gave order over then 25 mins later was brought over. People had came in after and got food and drink. before us.

Lovely friendly pub. Has such a friendly environment with good deals on food and drink. Great for a family meal or date night. Will definitely be back !

We had afternoon tea and it is the best by farr

Brilliant breakfast. Lovely situation. Good service

Having stayed at this hotel before hopes were high. Unfortunately service has went downhill. Both my partners starter and main came out wrong with not even a sorry just it must have been sent through to kitchen wrong. Also too many young members of staff just hanging around at bar area on their mobile phones when there were 3 tables of empty glasses etc rotting for at least 3 hours. We bought crisps at bar to take back to the room only to discover they were 3 weeks out of date. Doesn’t seem to be any structure in dining room. Wait for carvery staff is unacceptable with people waiting for him to carve meat but he’s nowhere to be seen and staff don’t even acknowledge you standing there. Shame as it used to be a great hotel and service but not now. Won’t be returning

Firstly the restaurant is lovely and bright and well laid out. They menu has plenty on it and the lunch menu is a good deal. However that is where the good stops. We waited at the sign to be seated, staff were talking at the bar and after 10 minutes we just had to go up and ask to be seated. The menu is pricey and the bread that came with the prawn cocktail was stale. The buttermilk chicken that came with the salad was rock hard and not that warm. We ordered 2 sets of drinks and both times had to ask where they were. Finally, it's February and the doors were wide open so the place was freezing. There seemed to be plenty of staff but they are just lacking attentiveness and given the price I would expect better.