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Cluny Bank Hotel

69 St Leonard's Road
Forres
Moray IV36 1DW

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Lloyd Kenny, enthusiastic chef patron

Lloyd Kenny, chef and owner with wife Julia, manager

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Cluny Bank Hotel

Review below ▼   "Real food of outstanding taste plus comfortable rooms"
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Real food of outstanding taste plus comfortable rooms


Awards   2011 > Real & Local Food Restaurant Award | Chef Médaille d’Or [Lloyd Kenny]

Other guides    VS 4 stars | FoodStars™ 4 gold

Rooms 8

 

Judges' notes

Moray and surrounding counties are the heart of the Scotch Malt Whisky Trail and this fresh, notably cared-for environment produces some magnificently natural food - prime meat, game and fish and much more besides. The coast is award-winning and the dolphins famous; beaches and forests await; Forres has many times over won the Britain in Bloom contest. Fascinating eco/spiritual development Findhorn is not far off. There's the Castle Trail. Relax, leave the car, take the train and be in Inverness in half an hour. 

This is the inviting backdrop to Cluny Bank, a small yet quite imposing choice near the edge of Forres classified by VisitScotland as a restaurant-with-rooms; we'd not argue with that. It's a homely 3 to 4-star hotel - but dinner is a 5-star taste experience. Good food is at the heart of this cheerful, informal place.

Lloyd Kenny is the inimitable head chef whose unquestionably intelligent and gifted passion brings carefully-sourced ingredients to life. The menu offers tantalising options; mull it over with an aperitif (one of 10 local Benromach malts maybe?) in the cosy bar. This is not frou-frou food; here, that style is shot dead. This is sophistication without pretence - or ridiculous price. This is about real food and skilled cooking where flavour and pleasure are king. The clean-lined yet traditional dining room won the Real & Local Food Restaurant Award 2011. And most deservedly so.

Bedrooms are comfortable and clean; each one is unique as it's an old house. One has own door to garden thus ideal for Fido. There's a lovely single / small double on first floor with windows on both sides. Fast, free wi-fi, good hospitality tray, mineral water, pleasant toiletries, new TVs. Helpful local knowledge, too.

3 Red Stars - Country Hotel

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