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Best restaurants in Scotland 2019
The top-scoring restaurants in Scotland for 2019
The top-scoring restaurants in Scotland for 2019
Our Best Local Restaurant list celebrates the places that are the beating heart of communities around Britain. Using reader nominations as a driving force, we inspected a great number of restaurants in Scotland to decide which ones deserved a place in the 100 Best Local Restaurants 2023. Some are old favourites, others are new to The Good Food Guide, all are brilliant places to eat.
Many Glaswegians build food into their wider social plans and make eating out part of the event rather than necessarily the destination. As such there’s a wide range of options and a certain dynamism to what’s in favour at any point.
Lloyd Morse is the sort of chef you’d want to cook you dinner. The ebullient Australian has coursed through some of the industry’s best places to eat (and work) in his homeland and the UK, where he relocated some 14 years ago. But how exactly did he wind up in Edinburgh running one of Scotland’s best-loved local restaurants? Chloe Hamilton finds out.
Sandwiched between Dundee and Edinburgh, an expanse of Scottish rurality to the left, the blustering North Sea to the east, is the East Neuk of Fife. It is not a large part of the country, but it is an important one, with dozens of towns and villages playing host to some of Scotland’s most lustrous produce. A reverent James Porteous tells us where to go.