Abbey Cottage Tearoom — Restaurant in Scotland

We stumbled across this lovely place the day after our wedding in July 2017. Best scones I've ever tasted! Best cream I've ever tasted, best butter and jam I've ever tasted too! Darn good coffee as well. 😁 I remember that it was so nice to sit outside and enjoy our food tea and coffee. Beautiful surroundings and the old Sweetheart Abbey is quite impressive. We have a bit of a drive from South Ayrshire but we can't wait to come back here. I'm already checking my calendar as I see you're opening on the 16th of February? 😃 ● UPDATE: September 2020. I was wondering if the tearoom would reopen after the lock down. I'm glad it did. And the scones are just as good as I remember. I love this place. ● UPDATE: December 2020. Definitely my favourite place to come to for a lunch or a tea and a cake. Baked potato with vegetarian haggis is my favourite at the moment - and I'm not even a vegetarian. I like that haggis has just the right amount of heat in it. And yes, the scones are still to die for! ● UPDATE: May 2021. I was thinking to myself that I have to get a hold of the recipe for these scones as I'm becoming a bit fanatical about them 😉. However, it's not all about the food, is it? Well, the food plays the biggest part and believe me it is great, but it's also about the surroundings which are beautiful, the tearoom is lovely, the staff are always pleasant. The whole experience is a treat and I like it this way. Plus, I like to support locals and their business as much as I can, especially in these difficult times just now. Thank you for keeping this tearoom open and for...

I have very fond memories of coming here as a child and very much enjoying the cakes and hot chocolate. Unfortunately, I returned more recently and the experience was far from what I remember.

My partner and I ordered garlic mushroom soup, a toastie and a latte each to which the server seemed quite confused. She hadn't realised they were serving mushroom soup despite it being on the 'specials' board.

After a wait our coffee arrived which I'm positive was made by a machine and not a person. Very disappointing for a highly rated cafe. Our food then arrived. Watery, grey and bland mushroom soup heated up so much it was inedible for at least 5 minutes. Accompanying my soup was a limp and pale cheese and tomato toastie in which the tomato had possibly been cut with an axe and the toastie machine and bread had barely met.

After reading all the positive and recent reviews before we came I was confident the quality would be the same. It may have simply been a bad day but I doubt we will take the chance parting with our...

Had a lovely afternoon tea at the Tea room yesterday (27/8/22). We arrived at about 1515, service was very prompt by a very professional young man (Thomas). It was a gorgeous sunny day so we sat outside in the lovely garden area. The afternoon tea was delicious, sandwiches with lovely soft brown bread, they only had fruit scones left which is understandable at the time we arrived but we were not disappointed at all, they were lovely with the cream and Jam. I opted for the vitoria sponge as my cake and my partner had the Lemon cake. We were so full from the sandwiches and scone we decided to have the cake at home and this was not a problem at all, the cake was put into a take away box for safe transit for us.

Lovely relaxing atmosphere and fantastic quality food at a reasonable price. I look forward to going back to try more...