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The private dining room at the Meikleour Arms, a long table laid for dinner under a chandelier, with a stone wall and red patterned curtains.
Perthshire

The Meikleour Arms

A country inn of 1820 in the village of Meikleour, owned by Meikleour Estate, with a restaurant cooking estate venison and game and a bar with its own ale.

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There's something lovely about a country inn that grows much of what it cooks, and the Meikleour Arms does it beautifully.

It stands in the conservation village of Meikleour, close to the famous beech hedge, and was built as a coaching inn in 1820. Meikleour Estate owns and runs it, and its own produce leads the menu: wild venison, game, trout and beef, with the meat matured in its own butchery and the charcuterie cured in the kitchen. The cooking is British country food with a French accent, so look out for the black pudding Scotch egg and a specials board that changes every day. Eat in the Barn or the woodland Atrium, or settle into the bar with a pint of its own ale, The lure of Meikleour, or one of more than fifty malts. On a warm day the beer garden, with its clipped topiary, is the place to be. Dogs are welcome in the bar and garden, and it's open every day.

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Before you go

Open every day, with food until 9pm.

Book a table online or by phone.

Where
In the village of Meikleour, Perthshire, PH2 6EB.
Open
Every day, 10am to 11pm; last food orders at 9pm.
Booking
Online through its own site, or by phone. The beer garden tables cannot be booked.
Dogs
Welcome in the bar, and on a lead in the beer garden. Well behaved dogs are welcome in the restaurant too: let the inn know in advance.
Children
Welcome, with a menu of their own.
Access
A wheelchair-accessible entrance and parking.
Phone
01250 883206

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
10am–11pm
Tuesday
10am–11pm
Wednesday
10am–11pm
Thursday
10am–11pm
Friday
10am–11pm
Saturday
10am–11pm
Sunday
10am–11pm

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Where it is

In the conservation village of Meikleour, between Perth and Blairgowrie, PH2 6EB.

Close byMeikleour and the country round Blairgowrie.
  1. Meikleour Beech HedgeMeikleour Beech HedgeA beech hedge beside the A93 near Meikleour, planted in 1745, a third of a mile long and around 30 metres high, the tallest hedge in the world.Under a mile as the crow flies
  2. BlairgowrieA market town on the River Ericht at the edge of the Highlands, with its twin Rattray across the water, once a town of flax and jute mills and now of berry fields.4 miles as the crow flies
  3. Cargill’s Leap, PerthshireCargill’s LeapA narrow rocky gorge on the River Ericht just above Blairgowrie, where the Covenanter Donald Cargill is said to have leapt the river to escape the dragoons.4 miles as the crow flies
  4. The round stone café and ice cream parlour at Stewart Tower Dairy on a sunny day, with farm fields and the Perthshire hills behind.Stewart Tower DairyA dairy farm near Stanley in Perthshire that makes its own gelato-style ice cream, with a café in an old horse engine house and a farm shop.5 miles as the crow flies
  5. Loch of the Lowes Wildlife ReserveLoch of the Lowes Wildlife ReserveA Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve on a loch near Dunkeld, where ospreys return each spring to nest 150 metres from the hides.7 miles as the crow flies
  6. Picnic tables on a lawn with a canopy, church spire and townhouses behindThe TaybankA bar, restaurant and hotel on the Tay by Telford's bridge in Dunkeld, once Dougie MacLean's, famous for its live music and its big garden by the river.8 miles as the crow flies
  7. A beaver dam of peeled sticks holding back a pond at Bamff in early spring, a ruined steading and a timber-clad barn beyond.Bamff WildlandA rewilding estate on the Highland edge, three miles north-west of Alyth, where beavers have lived since 2002.8 miles as the crow flies
  8. Scone PalaceScone PalaceThe red sandstone palace of the Earls of Mansfield beside the Moot Hill at Scone, where the kings of Scots were crowned on the Stone of Destiny.9 miles as the crow flies
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  • 5 miles from the Meikleour Arms
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  • Sleeps 2
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