Auldgirth Inn

My wife and I live locally and booked the Auldgirth Inn to celebrate her birthday. The menu choices were excellent and varied. Small bite sized snacks were served whilst we waited for our first course. A nice touch! I had the haggis scotch egg to start. This was excellent and the soft egg yolk in the centre was just right. My wife had pate with brioche - also delicious. My main course was braised beef with cockles on a horseradish mash. Very tasty and beautifully cooked. My wife's main was venison with gnocci. Also delicious! I had sorbet for dessert and my wife had creme brulee. - superb A wonderful meal with good sized portions. Staff were friendly and efficient. We will be back!!

We had the most fabulous overnight stay whilst exploring Dumfries & Galloway. We were made to feel most welcome upon arrival by Louise, Duty Manager & Rab, the owner & excellent Chef. All of the team were very welcoming, polite, professional & courteous, as well as Covid friendly too. We stayed in room 6 which was very well equipped and had a lovely bathroom. We enjoyed the high end, quality toiletries, bathrobes and sleep packs. Our room was very quiet being at the back of the Inn. The sleep quality was superb thanks to lovely & comfortable bed, bedding & pillows. The pillows were so good that leaving the Inn, we went into Dumfries to buy some of the pillows. We ate in the restaurant on our overnight stay. Again, food, service and wine were all first class. Great cooking from Rab & his kitchen team plus lovely service from the front of house staff. Prior to retiring for the night, we enjoyed drinks in the quaint & welcoming residents lounge. Breakfast in the morning was equally superb. Infact, my wife commented that “it was the best breakfast of our whole staycation”. A fabulous little Inn with a lovely owner & a first class staff. We recommend The Auldgirth Inn and will definitely return in future. Thank you to all the team.

Stayed here for 2 nights with my husband. Our room (2) was really spacious and so comfortable. Would have loved to have stayed longer. Beautiful bathroom with bath and shower. Ate at the hotel both nights as the food is fantastic and a great variety. Lovely cooked breakfast and have to say the service was great. Lots of social distancing, hand gel to hand as soon as you go in. We felt totally safe. Lovely quiet lounge for hotel guests. We will definitely return.

We stayed overnight on our way up to West Coast of Scotland. Welcome and service - 10/10, staff couldn't have been more helpful. Our food in the evening was superb and plenty of it. Rab is clearly very skilled and talented. Lovely old Inn which is being re-furbished on an on-going basis I would think. Bedrooms very comfortable. Everything fine for an overnight stay but for longer you might struggle for clothes storage. Bathroom very clean with lovely toiletries - Noble Isle. Window interesting - sort of flaps open and shut, maybe its an authentic Scottish thing? Would highly recommend staying here and most definitley eating here. The restaurant was really lovely and well designed and as I say the food was outstanding. Internet was free and fast.

We booked a night at the end of our week's "staycation" in Scotland. We chose the place because of the restaurant's reputation. Our room was very comfortable, spacious and spotless. Large very well fitted bathroom with bathtub and shower. The toiletries provided were of excellent quality. We feared the restaurant would be dead as I think we were the only people staying - five rooms worth of guests were "stuck" on the Isle of Arran. However, there were lots of people eating and the dining room had a great atmosphere. Couldn't decide what to choose from the tempting menu but the charming waitress recommended that we try the Tasting Menu. Nothing was written down - the Chef does an ad hoc menu depending on what is available. Although the menu - at £65 a head - is more than we would normally pay, we decided to go with it as a special treat. So glad we did. Everything was so well prepared and personally presented and described by one of the chefs. I didn't take photos of all the courses - we were too hungry to wait - so hope I remember it correctly. Chef's nibble were beef tartare tartlets and prawn arrencini, next was delicious marinated salmon, fabulous chicken liver pate with caramelised onions and brioche, our favourite (I think) poached, rolled chicken with samphire and prawns, then venison with chargrilled shallots and dauphinois. I was pretty much beaten by the time we reached the 2 desserts - lemon tarte and sorbet then a chocolate fondant with raspberry puree. The latter was, thankfully, a sharing portion but the Husband did have to consume the majority. It was all delicious. We were asked what time we wanted breakfast as we were literally the only people there so Rob the Chef and Owner came in specifically to make breakfast which made us feel very guilty indeed. A full Scottish was on offer and I am sure it would have been amazing but we were still replete from the previous night so asked if we could have fruit and yoghurt and scrambled eggs with mushrooms and tomatoes. None of that was on the menu but Rob came up with a delicious breakfast and a lovely big cafetiere of good coffee. A great place with great staff. Thanks so very much. We want to come back to sample some of the wonderful looking beef on the menu.