The Bothy Braemar — Restaurant in Scotland

I’ve been looking forward to trying this place for ages but have to say I was a little disappointed. There were plenty of available tables but the queue was huge and slow. Unfortunately you have to queue to order which took ages and the food took a while to come after that. When it did, it was average. The baked potato skin was so thick I couldn’t even cut it. My friends ciabattas were underwhelming. The glasses they give you to help your to water aren’t much bigger than a shot glass so we were up and down refilling those. There were loads of tourists in the queue looking disappointed at the wait and many were clearing tables themselves. It certainly wasn’t Scottish service at its best. The location is lovely and the coffee and cakes were delicious (unfortunately another long queue to get those!). I think if they sorted their queuing system and cleared tables faster, it would be a much nicer...

We had a lovely breakfast at The Bothy, Braemar this morning. Got there just before the early morning rush. Nice friendly service. We have visited The Bothy once previously for a breakfast, around same time last year.

We ordered 2 full breakfasts and pot of tea for 2. The breakfasts were clearly freshly cooked, great quality produce (black pudding top notch!). Plenty on the plate and good portion of toast on the side. Good quality tea that came in a lovely china teapot for pouring, none of those annoying metal leaky ones where you lose half your tea. Very decent pricing for a tourist heavy location.

It's clearly a very popular venue for breakfast, judging by the crowds coming through the door as we were eating.

We'll definitely be back next time we're in the area, will try a bit of lunch/home baking next time too. The menu has a great selection to satisfy most people,...

Ate in here numerous times and normally very good, but yesterday's ( friday 24th feb23) experience was ridiculous, the lady behind the till was to the point of rude ( older shorter lady )really abrupt....Got our coffee which was cold and finished before food arrived,hubby ordered a bacon Roll and sausage roll( no butter or very little on rolls) poor quality bacon&sausages and I ordered a coronation chicken&cheese toastie,he got his first,eventually I got mine,said to another member of staff it was meant to have cheese who abruptly told me it did from half way across cafe, toastie was tough n tbh not great! For £24 terrible service and rubbish food... Went into shop bought a harkila waistcoat staff young lad at till lovely..... So really moral is cafe staff need to up their game in manners and hospitality skills and level of food ...Won't...