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Perthshire

Where to eat in Perthshire.

Perthshire is a wonderful place to eat, with soft fruit from its fields, beef and lamb from its farms and salmon from its rivers. You'll find cosy tearooms that have been baking scones for years, speciality coffee roasters, much-loved bakeries, and old coaching inns and country houses serving dinner worth the drive. Many sit in pretty towns along the Tay, so it's easy to plan a day around lunch. Book ahead for dinner, especially in summer and at weekends.

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Place of the day18 hours ago

Blair Atholl Watermill.

A working watermill in Blair Atholl, on a site milled since the 1590s, grinding its own flour for the bread, scones and cakes of its tearoom.

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Just opened17 hours ago

Andrew Spence has reopened The Postbox in Perth, in the room where he trained 13 years ago.

He brought the name back in memory of his mentor there, the chef Wes Watts. Spence grew up in Shetland, and the menu leans north: Shetland hake, Orkney scallops, Loch Fyne sea trout.

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Food and drink17 hours ago

The Broch Cafe.

A family café on Strathyre's Main Street and the cycle route, with Italian coffee and fresh food, closed on Wednesdays.

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From our guide16 hours ago

Hansen's Kitchen.

A village deli selling a mouth-watering array of quality foods, whether you’re after ready meals, picnic provisions, baked goods or local beers and ciders – think anything from smoked cheddar scones to pickled samphire. It’s named after founder Iain Hansen, who set up shop in 2011.

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From the magazine16 hours ago

At the Tickled Trout Café near Perth, a water channel runs right through the building, an old mill at a trout farm.

The café opened in the middle of a pandemic, and in spite of that start it has earned a reputation for quality homemade food. It is based in a refurbished old mill at a trout farm, and the water still runs right through the building. It makes a good stop on any tour of Perthshire.

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Food and drink15 hours ago

Moor of Rannoch Restaurant & Rooms.

A restaurant with five rooms beside Rannoch Station on the West Highland Line, with a seven-course menu that changes daily and two AA rosettes.

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From Issue 5 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 515 hours ago

Ballintaggart: Where Scotland Grows

Ballintaggart, a farm on a hillside in Perthshire's Tay Valley with a cookery school, rooms and a restaurant, cooking from its own garden and orchard and the Highland larder.

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Did you know15 hours ago

ARAN Bakery, in Dunkeld, was opened by a semi-finalist of the Great British Bake Off.

Flora Shedden was the youngest semi-finalist of the BBC's Great British Bake Off in 2015, and went on to open her bakery in Dunkeld, in Highland Perthshire. She named it Aran, the Scottish Gaelic word for bread or a loaf.

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From our guide14 hours ago

Hettie’s Tearoom.

Scooping various awards since it opened it 2010, this cracking little tearoom serves its own loose-leaf teas alongside homemade soups, sandwiches, scones, traybakes, cheesecakes and more. Look out too for the original artworks the decorate the walls, by ‘Daughter of the Stag’ Bev Nicol.

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Food and drink14 hours ago

The Courtyard Brasserie & Bar.

A bar and brasserie in the courtyard of the Mains of Taymouth estate at Kenmore, open every day, with local food, a fire indoors and a big sunny terrace.

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From the magazine14 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 10Issue 10Spring / Summer 2025

Fraser Potter rebuilt The Taybank in Dunkeld, a pub once owned by Dougie MacLean, who wrote the folk tune 'Caledonia', while training to row the Atlantic.

Fraser did it during the pandemic, almost single-handedly, while training with four friends to row for charity. He turned the pub's car park into one of the biggest beer gardens in Scotland, with circus-style awnings sloping down to the River Tay. Upstairs he converted the five rooms himself, doing all the joinery. He kept the old-school bar with its stacks of instruments for live music sessions, and most of the herbs and veg for the first-floor restaurant are grown in the walled garden he restored. Beside the river there are now long-table supper clubs, an outdoor sauna he built, and outdoor film screenings in summer.

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