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Perthshire

Dinner worth the drive.

Eating out in Perthshire can be a real treat. There are country house hotels and grand Victorian buildings serving dinner in elegant dining rooms, a restaurant with rooms beside a remote Highland station, and an old inn with its own brewery. In the towns you'll find family-run bistros and cafés serving good home cooking all day. Many cook with beef, lamb, game and soft fruit from the farms around them. Book ahead, especially for dinner at the weekend.

Atholl Palace Hotel→
The Pitcairngreen Inn→
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Restaurant of the day19 hours ago

Moulin Hotel and Brewery.

An inn of 1695 on the square of Moulin above Pitlochry, with its own brewery since 1995, a fireside bar and rooms at the foot of Ben Vrackie.

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From our guide17 hours ago

Grandtully Hotel.

Run by the team behind the superb Ballintaggart Farm – a restaurant shuttered, hopefully temporarily, by Covid – the nearby Grandtully Hotel offers one of the best high-end dining experiences in Perthshire, with two AA rosettes to show for the fact. Menus are stacked with Scottish ingredients, from Peterhead monkfish to Loch Fyne oysters.

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From the magazine16 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 04Issue 04Spring / Summer 2022

Matilda Ruffle, the sommelier who runs Killiecrankie House in Perthshire with her chef husband Tom Tsappis, believes dinner is better when guests stay the night.

Their restaurant with rooms stands above the Pass of Killiecrankie. Staying over means that instead of arriving, eating and rushing off into the night, guests have time to explore the area, visit a distillery, stroll round the kitchen garden or join a whisky tasting at the bar. Each of these, she says, helps set the scene for the meal to come. As she puts it, 'It means that you are not just going out for dinner, you are heading somewhere and immersing yourself in it'. Tom cooks a tasting menu full of home-grown and locally sourced produce, and Matilda pairs it with drinks that run from wine to sake and cocktails.

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A table for tonight.

Restaurants to book ahead, and the ones you can still walk into.

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Restaurants14 hours ago

Atholl Palace Hotel.

A grand Scots Baronial hotel on the hill above Pitlochry, opened in 1878 as the Athole Hydropathic, with its own museum of its history.

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From Issue 5 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 512 hours agoPerthshireBallintaggartPerthshireGrandtully HotelRestaurantPerthshireIain Burnett Highland ChocolatierCafe

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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From the magazine11 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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Restaurants10 hours ago

The Cornerstone.

Kinloch Rannoch's community-owned bar and restaurant, in stone and timber by the Allt Mor waterfall, with local food and four rooms to eat in.

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Stay9 hours agoPerthshireThe House at Dun Aluinn5.2 milesPerthshireGarden Cottage8.7 milesPerthshireLassintullich House8.9 miles

Stay near The Courtyard Brasserie & Bar.

The three good places closest to it: The House at Dun Aluinn, Garden Cottage and Lassintullich House.

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Somewhere to eat8 hours ago

The Pitcairngreen Inn, Perthshire.

A late eighteenth-century coaching inn on the village green at Pitcairngreen, four miles west of Perth, with a snug, a bistro, real ales and a beer garden.

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Restaurants6 hours ago

The Kirkstyle Inn.

An old country inn on Kirkstyle Square in Dunning, below St Serf's Church, with local food, real ales, a covered beer garden and four rooms.

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From the magazine5 hours ago

The Moulin Inn, above Pitlochry in Perthshire, has nothing to do with French windmills: its name comes from 'maohlinn', meaning small rounded hill.

The inn first opened its doors in 1695, a full quarter of a century before Bonnie Prince Charlie was born. It began as a modest house of three floors with two rooms on each, and one of those rooms doubled as a meeting place for the village elders. By the 1880s its reputation had earned it two extensions, with more rooms, more kitchen space and more places to drink. Step inside today and you will find wood panelling, stained glass, tartan curtains and snug tables, a pleasingly rustic setting for a drink by the fire, with good food to match.

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