The Meikle — Restaurant in Scotland

We had a meal at the Meikle as part of our stay at Crieff Hydro. It was a very mixed experience in that the food was actually quite good but with only two vegetarian main courses on the menu, and both of them pasta, we were very restricted in our choice. So it was a toss up between pasta arabiatta that I could throw together in minutes myself, or ravioli fungi. We went for the ravioli. We then received our meal, 5 small pieces of ravioli drowning in a creamy sauce, but even then it hardly covered the base of our plate. What a joke. At nearly £15, it didn't go close to satisfying our appetite- it felt like a starter portion. As a result we cancelled our meal planned for the second night of our stay and chose to go to the town centre instead. Service was very hit and miss with either too many interrupting while we ate or else nobody around leading to long waits for requesting drinks, dessert menu and finally our bill....

Pure chaos.

We had no less than 4 different people trying to attend us at different times once we received food, ignored until flagged someone down initially, ordered our food, drinks and water. Water never came. Bread that we were told we should have had upon seating, came at the end of starters. Food was meh, (had prawn and soup starter, steak and risotto. Soup was best) and we were brought other people's drinks and food. As my wife is pregnant we wanted to verify drinks (ensure she didn't have alcohol) and they had no idea what was what.

Last thing we wanted after a day of travel. A shame, place has a decent view...

Very disappointing and poor service for our lunch today. Lack of knowledgeable and schooled staff. We had a last sitting but food was cleared away well before we had finished our meal. Struggled to get attention from staff, had to try and get attention for both, drinks orders and to clear our plates away.

A beautiful place and its such a shame that the customer service was...