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Gattonside Stow ●7 Salmon Inn ●18 The County Hotel 54 Bank Street, Galashiels TD1 1EP ●12 The Hoebridge 1 – 5 High Street, Selkirk TD7 4BZ Borders Gattonside, Melrose TD6 9LZ ●1 Cloudhouse Café & Gallery Family run and traditional and County Hotel Selkirk is the central 23 Townfoot, Stow TD1 2QN welcoming inn serving good honest Contemporary restaurant open place to meet for comfortable Daily specials, delicious home baking, pub grub, home made puddings and Wednesday through Saturday from 5.30 accommodation and delicious food locally sourced food and organic real ales. B and B accommodation. pm, offering a superb menu using the with a focus on local Scottish Railway freshest of local ingredients, combining ingredients. A great café with friendly Tel: 01896 752577 / 07793 591656 ingredients and suppliers. wonderful flavours, expertly prepared service and good coffee. www.salmoninn.co.uk Tel: 01750 721233 and beautifully presented. Great wine www.countyhotelselkirk.co.uk Food & drink Trail Tel: 01896 318987 list, coffees and tisanes. www.cloudhousecafe.co.uk ●8 Turnbull’s 8 High Street, Galashiels TD1 1SD Tel: 01896 823082 ●19 The Waterwheel Restaurant www.thehoebridge.com ●2 Springbank Tearoom Fresh home baking, teas and coffees. Philiphaugh, Selkirk TD7 5LX 130 Galashiels Road, Stow TD1 2RE Brasserie restaurant, deli and wine MelroSE open 7 days, serving tasty home A traditional tea room serving bar – locally sourced produce and baking, coffees and teas, seasonal soups 13 Abbey Fine Wines homemade food seven days a week, own brands. ● and salads, with daily specials. 17 Market Square, Melrose TD6 9PL to eat in or take away. Tel: 01896 750577 Tel: 01750 22258 Tel: 01578 730441 www.turnbullshop.com Trading in Melrose for almost 30 www.salmonviewingcentre.com/ www.facebook.com/pages/ years, sourcing wines of character and waterwheelrestaurant.html Springbank-Tea-Room Tweedbank interest, representing some of the wine world’s most sought after Estates and ST Boswells Winemakers. Galashiels 9 Herges on the Loch ●20 Buccleuch Arms ● Tel: 01896 823224 1 Tweedbank Drive, Tweedbank TD1 3RP The Green, St. Boswells, www.abbeyfinewines.co.uk ●3 Alex Dalgetty & Sons Waterside restaurant Herges Melrose TD6 0EW 21 Island Street, Galashiels TD1 1NZ offers neighbourhood fine dining ●14 Martin Baird Butchers Limited Four star inn with an award winning A range of delicious handmade Scottish at its best! Fresh seasonal and 2 Market Square, Melrose TD6 9PN reputation and menus featuring locally local ingredients inspire dishes that sourced prime meat and fresh fish. bakery goods, using original recipes and A family business priding itself on incorporate flavours from around the highest quality natural ingredients. supplying locally sourced meat Tel: 01835 822243 the world. Makers of the original Selkirk Bannock. products, prepared on the premises www.buccleucharms.com Tel: 01896 752508 Tel: 01896 759909 using traditional and time honoured www.alex-dalgetty.co.uk www.hergesontheloch.com methods to bring to you the best the ●21 The Mainstreet Trading Scottish Borders has to offer. Company 4 Born in the Borders 10 Tempest Brew Co ● ● Tel: 01896 822016 Main Street, St. Boswells, 1 & 2, Block 11, Tweedbank Industrial Galashiels Transport Interchange, www.martinbairdbutchers.co.uk Melrose TD6 0AT Estate, Tweedbank TD1 3RS Stirling Street, Galashiels TD1 1BY Café, bookshop, artisan home wares The Born in the Borders cafe in the Micro-brewery making fresh core, ●15 Ochiltrees and wonderful deli, with a particular Gala Transport Interchange offers a seasonal and limited edition craft beers. Abbotsford, Melrose TD6 9BQ focus on cheeses, cured and smoked taste of the very best of the Borders We use Golden Promise barley malts A stylish restaurant situated at meats, plus a range of foods cooked on as you wait for your train or bus. - grown locally in the Kelso area and Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott, the premises. Winner of many awards. milled by nearby maltsters, Simpsons Coffee, teas, soups and sandwiches serving a range of refreshments and Tel: 01835 824087 Malt in Berwick-upon-Tweed. are served from 6am - 6pm every day. meals including morning coffee, lunches www.mainstreetbooks.co.uk Tel: 01896 751 884 Tel: 01896 759500 and afternoon tea. Fresh seasonal www.bornintheborders.com www.tempestbrewco.com menus are available throughout the day. ●22 J. C. Douglas Quality Butcher Tel: 01896 663962 Main Street, St. Boswells, Melrose TD6 ●5 Overlangshaw Farmhouse Easy reach of the www.scottsabbotsford.com/eat/ Family butcher where quality and Ice Cream Railway service are considered essential 16 W & A Williamson Overlangshaw Farm, Galashiels TD1 2PE ● ingredients. Gattonside High Street, Melrose TD6 9PB Luxury ice cream using our own creamy Tel: 01835 822061 milk and fresh farm eggs. Variety of ●11 Chapters Traditional greengrocer offering high www.facebook.com/pages/JC- quality fresh produce, accompanied flavours and fresh fruit sorbets, using Main St, Gattonside, Melrose TD6 9NP Douglas-Butchers locally grown fruits in season. by great service. An informal bistro with menus featuring Tel: 01896 823469 Tel: 01896 860244 fresh fish from Eyemouth, meat and Follow us on B @Bordersfood www.overlangshawfarm.co.uk game from local farms and estates, W Scottish Borders Food and Drink Borders cheeses, fruit and vegetables - Selkirk www.bordersfoodnetwork.co.uk ●6 Paolo’s Italian Restaurant good food with attention to detail. ●17 Selkirk Deli Award-winning traditional Italian Tel: 01896 823217 17 High Street, Selkirk TD7 4BZ dishes, home made using the www.chapters-bistro.co.uk A great deli in the centre of town, freshest ingredients. offering a wide range of specialist foods, Tel: 01896 750888 charcuterie and cheeses – with a coffee shop, home baking and light meals. www.facebook.com/ PaolosItalianRestaurant Tel: 07563 365242 www.facebook.com/SelkirkDeli The Community Food Fund www.bordersfoodnetwork.co.uk Images: Born in the Borders (centre left), The Mainstreet Trading Company (bottom left), Abbotsford © Paul Tomkins, VisitScotland (bottom right) Scottish Borders Food & Drink Network Trail ● Edinburgh Borders Railway Scottish Borders Restaurant Brunstane Café EdinBurgh Waverley newcraighall Following the historic Greengrocer Waverley Route, the Shawfair new Borders Railway is Butcher Eskbank one of the most scenic Beer rail lines in Scotland, connecting the capital Wines city of Edinburgh with newtongrange the heart of the Scottish Ice cream Borders. Passing through Gorebridge Bread rolling green hills, pretty villages and wooded Delicatessen valleys along the course 2 of the Gala Water - 1 whether you step off to Stow enjoy a wander around attractive Stow, or carry on to the central Border 5 town of Galashiels or its 4 neighbour Tweedbank, 3 you will find a very warm Gattonside welcome. The Borders is 11 6 famous for its hospitality Galashiels 12 and great food, produced 7 13 14 16 Melrose by a community who 15 are passionate about 8 provenance, freshness and flavour. This leaflet 19 offers some ideas, but for travelling further afield, 20 17 10 22 take a look at: www. 18 9 21 bordersfoodnetwork. Selkirk Tweedbank co.uk where you can download a full directory St Boswells to food and drink and eating out in the beautiful Scottish Borders..
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