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Restaurants in Alloway

• Brig O'Doon House Hotel

  'My favourite place to eat in Scotland,' enthused one UK Restaurant Guide correspondent about this tasteful little hotel. The poet Robbie Burns was born in Alloway, and Brig O' Doon House ('a stunning venue') is right at the heart of the tourist trail.

  Alloway, Alloway, Ayrshire - Cuisine: International

Restaurants in Ayr

• Fairfield House Hotel, Martins Bar & Grill

  Standing proudly on the Ayrshire coast with wonderful views over the Firth of Clyde to the Isle of Arran, this impressive Victorian mansion (once home to a wealthy Glasgow tea merchant) has recently benefited from a major top-to-toe refurbishment.

  12 Fairfield Road, Ayr, Ayrshire - Cuisine: International

• Western House Hotel, Jockey Club Restaurant

  Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and built in 1920 beside Ayr racecourse (Scotland's premier venue devoted to the 'sport of kings'), this impressive looking hotel is a favourite with tourists, punters and golfers aiming for Royal Troon.

  Ayr Racecourse, Ayr, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

Restaurants in Ballantrae

• Glenapp Castle

  Built in the 1870s for the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire, this mighty castle is baronial exuberance personified, with turrets, castellated walls and glorious vistas overlooking the Irish Sea and Ailsa Craig.

  , Ballantrae, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

Restaurants in Dalry

• Braidwoods

  Two small whitewashed cottages out in the sticks provide the setting for one of Scotland's top-notch restaurants. Braidwoods has been going strong for more than a dozen years and continues to have a loyal following, thanks to its wide-ranging modern Scottish food.

  Drumastle Mill Cottage, Dalry, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

Restaurants in Fairlie

• Fins

  Up at the end of a moorland road between Dalry and Fairlie, Fencebay is a remarkable enterprise involving a smokehouse, farm shop and monthly farmers' market, as well as the splendid Fins restaurant.

  Fencefoot Farm, Fairlie, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Seafood

Restaurants in Isle of Arran

• Auchrannie Country House Hotel, Garden Restaurant

  Part of luxury resort complex hidden away a short distance from Brodick Ferry Port, Auchrannie is an imposing country house set in acres of mature gardens and grounds overlooking Glen Cloy.

  Brodick, Isle of Arran, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Creelers of Arran

  Set up by Tim and Fran James, who also run the adjoining smokehouse and shop, Creelers occupies the old farm 'bothy' attached to Brodick Castle Estate.

  Home Farm, Isle of Arran, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Seafood

• Kilmichael Country House Hotel

  Reputedly the oldest private house on the Isle of Arran, Kilmichael is set in historic grounds granted to its forebears by Robert the Bruce in 1307.

  Glen Cloy, Isle of Arran, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

Restaurants in Kirkoswald

• Souter Johnnie's Inn

  Built on the site of the old schoolhouse where Robert Burns went to school, and named after one of the poet's most colourful characters, Souter Johnny's Inn is part of a local regeneration project involving retail units, a coffee house and a whisky shop.

  47 Main Road, Kirkoswald, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Gastro pub

Restaurants in Maidens

• The Wildings

  Handily placed for Turnberry, this family-run hotel in the old fishing hamlet of Maidens may look rather dated from the outside, but it's a popular, buzzy place adjacent to the harbour and the sea.

  21 Harbour Road, Maidens, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Seafood

Restaurants in Mauchline

• The Sorn Inn

  Dating back some 200 years, this white-painted coaching inn is now a thriving family-run pub/restaurant-with-rooms. There's splendid countryside all around and fishing can be arranged on the River Ayr.

  35 Main Street, Mauchline, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

Restaurants in Troon

• Lochgreen House

  Thirty acres of immaculate grounds, woodland and gardens surround this genteel, handsomely appointed country house with views out to Ailsa Craig.

  Monktonhill Road, Troon, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Franco-Scottish

• MacCallums Oyster Bar

  A cleverly converted building on Troon harbour is the setting for this unfussy eating place devoted to the joys of seafood.

  The Harbour, Troon, Ayrshire - Cuisine: Seafood

Restaurants in Turnberry

• Malin Court, Cotters Restaurant

  A superb location right beside Turnberry's world-famous golf course is just one reason why sporting types and others converge on this sprawling, low-rise hotel.

  Turnberry, Turnberry, Ayrshire - Cuisine: European

• Turnberry Golf Resort, 1906 Restaurant

  A world-class golfing destination 'par excellence', Turnberry Golf Resort with its 1906 Restaurant is a grandiose Edwardian hotel standing high on a coastal hillside with spectacular views of Arran, Ailsa Craig and the Irish Sea.

  Maidens Road, Turnberry, Ayrshire - Cuisine: European