The Larder, Pre-theatre menu

It's a simple concept – a café style venue, a kitchen for all to see and a head chef not bound by a printed menu. Since its opening Cookie has succeeded in being a bit different. It is home of Chef Wars, where once a month chefs from around the city…

Deans @ Let’s Eat in the Fair City’s Kinnoull Street bills itself as 'a true taste of Scotland'. The restaurant’s family team of head chef Willie Deans, his wife Margot, and sons Lee (the manager) and young Jamie (already a talented chef), serve vibrant…

Clark & Sons is so big it could be could be mistaken for a hotel dining room. Comfy fabric booths, plush sofas and floor to ceiling windows give it an ultra contemporary feel. The bar and restaurant are at their best at the weekend when the…

One of St Andrew's better respected restaurants, centrally situated with some attractive outdoor dining and serving an internationally influenced menu based on Scottish produce.

A former coach house, and more recently a domestic flat, this Gourock restaurant is neat and homely.Offering everything from brunch and light lunches, to good-value lunch and evening set menu options, as well as à la carte dining (with a wine list by…

Opened in 2012, this restaurant specialises in seafood and steaks using quality ingredients. The space is well lit, decorated in off-white with comfortable blue chairs, natural wood floors and tables. In the bar area coffee and tea and cakes are served.

Herve and Paula Tabourel run a resolutely Parisian brasserie in a Florentine Palazzo-style building by 19th century architect David Rhind. Menus change constantly, but are reliably French from the complimentary pork rillette with bread to start, through…

[May 2013 Update: Now under new management and called the Plum Tree Deli - similar menu to old Berits at present]. In the heart of the merchant City, which is particularly good looking at night these days, Berits & Brown offers a small taste of a…

A custom-built, whitewashed brick of a building with a large glass frontage, Bangladeshi restaurant, Dil Se is modern and quietly classy. The menu has all the usual kind of stuff you’d expect from the subcontinent, and when it arrives, in massive…

Ayr's landmark restaurant was once 18th-century bank vaults, but with space for only about twenty covers the dining room is cosy and intimate all the same. The menu places a heavy emphasis on Scottish ingredients - whether wood pigeon, Stornoway black…

The Glass House is a Salvation Army church hall that has been transformed into an airy, contemporary open eating space, mostly using glass: on the facade from the roof down through a glass-fringed mezzanine, along with modern glass installations and…

Jute offers a bit of everything for those interested in checking out Dundee Contemporary Arts, or indeed anyone just passing. A reasonably priced snack menu is available alongside a full dinner menu. Fish and Vegetarian options are a big feature on the…

The Playwright has labelled itself 'uniquely intimate', which cannot be argued with. Offering some of the most inventive fine-dining food in Dundee, with a price list to match, The Playwright is ambitious in its endeavours. It succeeds, although the…

Part canteen, part fine-dining restaurant, chef-owner John Shields’ operation is housed in the impressive extension to an A-listed Art Deco former rubber factory, with Saturday-evening dining and brunches most catching the imagination.

A restaurant with rooms, rather than hotel dining room, Rissons in Strathaven have a mid-priced, crowd pleasing menu overseen by co-owner and head chef Scott Baxter, who bought the place with his wife Anne in 2002. Dining is the focus of the business…

Set just outside St. Andrews is the four-star Rufflets Country House Hotel, a turreted mansion which has offered golf breaks, weddings and fine dining since 1952. Twenty-four bedrooms, self-catering lodges, spacious gardens and dog-friendly grounds make…