Palominos Restaurant — Restaurant in Scotland

I'd give this place a 4.5* but happy to round up for this place.

The food is absolutely excellent with a diverse range of menu options. Would like to see a few more dedicated Vegan dishes but there are a few available.

Had a couple of meals here whilst staying at Ingliston. Generally recommended to book ahead as it is a very popular place (for good reason!)

The prices are reasonable and the dishes I had were excellent. Wholetail Scampi is a classic dish I enjoy and I find useful for comparison. Here they were cooked perfectly and in plentiful portion. Skinny fries served with them were ideal as well. The peas fell a little flat, maybe a tad overdone but didn't deduct from the overall dish.

Another evening I had the 'Balmoral' pizza. Palominos is a Scottish/Italian resteraunt so I felt pizza with haggis would be a good choice. Ooh it was lovely. Proper thrown sourdough pizza base with creamy mozzarella. I could have done with a little more Haggis on it but that may be a personal taste thing. To drink I chose the "Pina Nolada" mocktail which was a deliciously creamy combination of pineapple and coconut.

Deserts are also worth saving some space for. A range of locally made patisserie choices (the large strawberry tart is a popular choice) and the display case does often see the widening eyes of young children with treats galore!

Personally after my latter meal I chose the chocolate dome dessert. If, like me, you enjoy chocolate then this is a wonderfully rich option. The depths of chocolate in combination of the shell and surrounding brownies balanced well with the ice-cream and fresh raspberries.

All of the staff are wonderful, very friendly and accommodating. Service can be a little slow at times. During lunch it felt they were a little understaffed and the food took a while to arrive but a couple of days later when we were having dinner there was no particular wait.

The decor is...equine...very very horsey! They like horses and boy do they like horses. Not surprising given some of the tables look out on the indoor equestrian arena. Done very nicely but make sure noone in your part has equinophobia haha!

Would definitely dine here again, after all there are so many delicious options to choose from, one can't try everything on a...

Unfortunately I feel this place is style over substance. Think high-end well illuminated Frankie & bennies environment with very average pub grub on offer. Lovely staff and a cosy atmosphere but food not great. Menus galore as they seem to have 7 to choose from for every different time of day or day of the week. Fish and chips were not great. Claggy old tasting chips that were flabby and impossible to get to as they were underneath the fish and flanked by a ton of salad. Fish was fresh but the batter fell off which was frustrating. We had to ask for tartar sauce which want the end of the world but the chef's couldn't be bothered to chop the caper berries so you got huge bursts of caper and brine every so I'm often. Despite asking for no mushy peas I still got some which is an utter waste. Pickle onions didn't appear either, which isn't a bad thing as there was no room due to excessive salad taking up 40% of the plate.

Enough of my petty moans. In summary I wish the food lived up to the vibe, (external appearance) and service, but it just doesn't. It's far from great and unfortunately I could not recommend this...

What a funny wee story I have to share with you all today lol😂 My daughter & her partner have just welcomed their new wee baby girl and daddy thought he would take mummy and Darling wee Princess out for their first outing since baby’s arrival only a week ago….so I thought being a new Grandma again and being laid up in bed not well I would surprise them both with celebration drinks and strawberry tarts with love ❤️ from their old mum….who hasn’t even met baby yet….so Chloe took my payment over the phone and now I left a lovely couple and their new baby a wee bit confused as I only went and got the day wrong 😂 lol….Anyway Congrats to the lovely couple and their Darling new wee baby….They say God works in mysterious ways eh? I hope I made their day…Sending them Big Congratulations, God’s Abundant love 💕 infinite light and Blessings from the Wee Island of Arran Scotland 🏝 God bless and big Thankyou to all at Ingleston, Beautiful food, Best staff ever, and so kind and helpful, Big five stars for...