When the weather is clement, you can sit outside and enjoy your coffee and scone there but as the day was literally freezing this area held plants and produce for sale.
Inside is spacious and decorated in cream and pale green. To the left is a shop selling quality produce from local and world sources and to the right is a roomy and bright coffee shop. The windows look to the east across the flat fertile farmland towards Perth.
The food is excellent and all made on the premises. As they say on the menu ’we don’t serve fast food but we do serve fresh food as fast as we can’. It includes home bakes, scones, sandwiches with fillings such as home bakes ham and chutney and poached salmon, chicken liver pate with oatcakes and red currant jelly or Cumberland sauce and Scottish seafood selection with salad. The specials included carrot and parsnip soup, open crab sandwiches with rocket and lemon and dill mayo. Carrot cheese and red pepper loaf with chutney as well as apple and blackberry crumble. On the day we were there the specials menu had a lot of vegetarian options but according to the waitress this was just a coincidence and the whole range of meats was usually on offer.
This would make a very pleasant stopping off point on a run out to Perth and Crieff.
Why should I go there? A taste of country life.
Any negatives? It was a cold day when we visited but it was really too cold to be comfortable inside.
Before or After:
Visit the medieval Huntingtower Castle on the A85near its junction with the A9. It’s open all year though closed Thursdays and Fridays from October to March. Small admission fee.
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