Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Kinross
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Kinross restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 9 restaurants in Kinross and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Kinross restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Kinross Restaurants
1. Dhoom
Indian restaurant in Dunfermline
19-21 New Row - KY12
2021 Review: A bright Indian street food design is laid on strong at this large yearling, serving a variety of boldly flavoured bites. One or two encouraging early reports of “amazing flavours” win it an inclusion, but too few reports for a rating as yet.
2. Room With A View
Fish & seafood restaurant in Aberdour
Hawkcraig Point - KY3
2023 Review: “A seafood restaurant that never fails to please, with constantly changing menus that reflect what is available seasonally”. That’s the take on this small (24 covers) family-run fish restaurant and ‘seasonal hotel’ which sits on Hawkcraig point, with views of Edinburgh and the islands of the Forth. “The owners really do pull out all the stops to give a nice dining experience. Great for that special occasion!”
3. Jon & Fernanda's
British, Modern restaurant in Auchterarder
34 High Street - PH3
“Beautifully prepared, super tasting food from local producers” is on the menu at this “small restaurant on Auchterarder’s high street”, which makes a “great choice for dinner out one night” for guests holidaying at the nearby Gleneagles hotel (J&F are “former employees”). “I just wish this was on our local high street – we’d be there every week!”.
4. 63 Tay Street
Scottish restaurant in Perth
63 Tay St - PH2
2021 Review: Set up in 2007 by Slow Food aficionado Graeme Pallister, who trained at Kinloch House Hotel and the restaurant at Gleneagles, this elevated Scottish dining room, on the western banks of the Tay, remains a Perth gem that’s “exceptional value early evening”.
5. Cafe Tabou
French restaurant in Perth
4 St John's Pl - PH1
2022 Review: This “little piece of France” – down to the terrace under a red awning along the streetfront – has earned a strong local reputation over more than a decade as a haven of classic Gallic cuisine.
6. The North Port
British, Modern restaurant in Perth
8 North Port - PH1
This wood-paneled “gem” occupying a seventeenth-century building, from the husband-and-wife team of chef Andrew Moss & FOH Karen Milne, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year – the “exceptional cooking and wine list are a joy”. We’ve rated it on relatively thin feedback – more reports please.
7. Strathearn Restaurant
French restaurant in Auchterarder
“Food, service and ambience are all excellent”, as one might expect of this grand resort hotel’s traditional dining venue, which focuses on spectacular Scottish seafood and roast meat, leaving more adventurous interpretations to Restaurant Andrew Fairlie (its neighbour along the corridor). Even some diehard fans, though, complain that “the price has gone up and up over the years”.
8. Andrew Fairlie, Gleneagles Hotel
French restaurant in Auchterarder
“A brilliant annual treat!” that’s “worth the enormous drive to get there!” – this stunning venue regularly tops our annual diners’ survey as the UK’s best venue, and was once again applauded unanimously in reports this year for its “exceptional cuisine”. The flagship for the world-renowned golf resort, it’s a cosseting, dark-walled space whose elegant decor helps offset its windowless position within the heart of the hotel. “Unique flavours are beautifully presented” by chef Stephen McLaughlin who worked with Andrew Fairlie for 26 years before the latter passed away in 2019; and GM Dale Dewsbury presides over an “amazing” front of house team. As well as the ‘Degustation’ menu “it offers a three-course à la carte for £125 per person, which is a nice find in these days of taster-only options”. Top Menu Tip – “the signature home smoked lobster is a great dish”.
9. The Forager
Scottish restaurant in Dollar
19-23 Bridge Street - FK14
No reports as yet on this spring 2023 newcomer – the latest opening in the expanding empire of MasterChef: The Professionals 2018 finalist Dean Banks. But The Scotsman’s Gaby Soutar is a fan – in her February 2023 review she noted that the “foraging theme only seems to extend as far as the branding” with a menu that only “features the prerequisite pub classics, like fish ’n’ chips, Sunday roast, pies” along with some “fancier bits”. But she concluded that “Scotland has another excellent country pub”.
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