Which whisky distillery offers the best food?
Having been to many, many whisky distilleries, which one has the best food on offer?
Ardbeg for me takes top dog, a fabulous menu, with tempting starters, mains and puddins! Their menu includes great fish plates, seafood, burgers, surf & turf and deserts. It reads like a big smile on a piece of paper! They also have excellent background music Creedence Clearwater Revival when I was there last. If I were Jim Murray (thank the Lord I am NOT) I would give them 99/100, and the girls are all pretty too! Glenfiddich has a lunch menu, small but perfect, especially the haggis and the cheese selection, soups are good and cakes to die for, very nice staff and a great bar. Glenlivet, easy going a wee bit limited choice but all is good – soups, baked tatties, sandwiches and cakes, lots of drinks. Really good but not in the same bracket as Ardbeg.
Edradour, they don’t have any facilities here for food but as one of my favourite visits I must include them, Tunnock cakes and biscuits, crisps and shortbread but, and it’s a big but, the bar drams far outweigh the lack of food! Macallan new distillery, café is a wee bit dark, havnee eaten here yet but will do soon, the fact that they have a café is good. Aberfeldy, limited menu, sarnies, cakes, drinks etc. They have facilities but not a large choice, but we have pals here so like going!
So the jury was not out long, the winner by a mile was Ardbeg. I will have eaten here three times in as many months, love the drams, the food and the craic. Do you, our reader have anything to add? Let Liz know liz@mcleanscotland.co.uk
