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Doune Dining Room
For our guests, eating in Doune Dining Room is a major part of their holiday. We have always been proud of our food and we try very, very hard to consistently live up to the excellent reputation we have built up over time. At Doune Dining Room everything is home-made from
locally sourced fresh ingredients. The ambience is warm, friendly and relaxed,
and equally suited to small or large groups. Our famous three course evening
dinner is a carefully chosen single menu, freshly prepared daily (with options
for special diets and vegetarians). Start with a wonderful home-made soup or
pate, Doune Bay crab, or a stunning salad, always served with our own bread
rolls hot from the oven. Main course specialities include, traditional roasts
of lamb or venison, rich casseroles, pies, and vast seafood buffets. A
delicious dessert will compliment the main course and often makes use of soft
fruit in season from our garden. This may be followed by a varied Scottish
cheese board served with our own oatcakes. Finish with freshly brewed coffee or
tea, or choose something different like freshly picked garden peppermint tea. The dining
room is licensed and we offer a carefully chosen selection of wines, spirits
and local beers all at very reasonable prices. Supplies Local and seasonal are todays buzzwords but they have always been the natural choice for us. We use local Venison and Lamb. Prawns are always creel caught and come from a local fisherman. Jane relishes being the main crab catcher and although Jamie and Andy no longer dive for scallops themselves, we always buy from local divers. Jane and Liz's gardens are run on organic principles and provide most of our soft fruit and fresh herbs. A big proportion of our other ingredients are also organic, especially our bread flours and most nuts and dried fruits, and we choose fairly traded coffee, tea and chocolate. Ambience Doune is remote and rugged, offering unpretentious comfort and a warm and personal welcome. The food in Doune Dining Room is entirely appropriate to that. This is not the setting for cheap fast food or fancy 'fine dining'. It is the perfect place for real 'slow' food, skilfully and freshly prepared every day. We pay huge attention to menu planning..... The aim is that each dish is spot on, that it works within a perfectly balanced menu and that the weeks menus build up to a great overall experience. Special Diets Having a carefully chosen single menu, with everyone dining at the same time, means we are able to concentrate on using the freshest ingredients and cooking them to perfection. Of course if you have a special dietary requirement or allergy we are more than happy to produce an alternative for you. Please do talk to us about your needs. Maybe you would appreciate us letting you know if a dish contains a certain ingredient or is particularly rich. Most dishes are presented for self service so you can take as much or as little as you like and we can always offer cheese or fresh fruit as an alternative to dessert. Please relax, trust us, and enjoy this real, wholesome food. Breakfast Breakfast is at 8.00 or 8.30am depending on your plans for the day. Everything is presented as a buffet so you can have as much or as little of whatever you like. There is always plenty of choice and we ring the changes daily in both the cold and hot buffets. Our home-made bread makes lovely crunchy toast and we have a selection of home-made and locally produced preserves. We source the best quality meats from our butcher, but if the hot buffet doesn't tempt you and you would like a simple boiled egg instead, just let us know. (Remember to leave room for the Scotch pancakes, home-made croissant, or scones straight from the oven!) Packed Lunch Packed lunches will be ready to collect after breakfast. We use our own rolls and home baking and quantities are generous. If you find the lunch too big, do let us know in the kitchen the night before and we can tailor the quantity accordingly. Packed lunches are not usually provided on the day of departure, but if you would like to order one as an extra, please speak to us the day before.
Evening Meal We aim to start dinner at about 7.30pm but if you are planning a long day we can usually make a special arrangement. Please come in a few minutes early to get a pre-dinner drink and smell the bread rolls baking! This is a good chance for us to hear about your day and we can help you with the best choice of wine for the meal. For our Scottish Cheese board we source some beautiful cheeses in perfect condition. As always, quality and variety is paramount. At coffee time we discuss plans for the following day and decide on a time for breakfast. We look forward to welcoming you to enjoy the Doune Dining Experience! For further information,write to Martin Davies, Doune, Knoydart, Mallaig, Inverness-shire, PH41 4PL, UK. Telephone +44 1687 462667, or email martin@doune-knoydart.co.uk |
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We are delighted to have been awarded the
EatScotland Silver Award for 2007
and now we can announce that Doune Dining Room has been given the Destination Dining Award for 2007
for providing the very best of food in the finest of settings, one of only 7 awards of excellence
in the country.
