dining at the loch tummel inn

Our team tell us they love cooking in this delightful Scottish country inn better than anywhere. They are not hide-bound by an unchanging à la carte menu. If a local shooter brings us 20 mallards, we’ll serve them until they run out. We can do a slow roast every day if we want to. We can tinker with ideas.

The menus at Loch Tummel Inn read prosaically. No fancy phrases, or even much detail about cooking methods, so the impact - when the food is delivered - is all the greater. There aren't many meals that make you wonder what tricks the chef has pulled off to make the food taste this good.

We are passionate about great, simple dining experiences – so we just cook Scottish classics, oft with a subtle international twist, with skill and polish.

The place itself is unmistakeably ‘traditional-country’ – downstairs in the bar with flagstones and woodblock floors, big church pews, candles burning in uncurtained windows, and wooden bowls of pears and gourds on the shelves. There's an old fashioned log burning stove, and watercolours and pastels by local artists.

Upstairs in the delightful Hayloft Restaurant and the adjoining al fresco tree terrace – the atmosphere is a little more mellow and sophisticated – but still very ‘traditional country’ – and rather charming.

Loch Tummel Inn is a calming, civilised place - worth a trip even if you have to drive for miles.