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Greywalls Hotel & Chez Roux

Muirfield
Gullane
East Lothian EH31 2EG

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Norbert Lieder, managing director of Inverlochy Castle Management International who run Greywalls

Norbert Lieder, managing director of Inverlochy Castle Management International who run Greywalls as part of a select portfolio

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Greywalls Hotel & Chez Roux

Review below ▼   "Celebrated country house hotel and gardens"
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Celebrated country house hotel and gardens


Awards   2011 > Hotel Restaurant of the Year

Other guides    VS & AA unrated [we'd say 4 gold stars] | GHG | FoodStars™ 5 gold

Rooms 23

 

Judges' notes

Hotel of Beauty 2010 and Hotel Restaurant of the Year 2011-winner, Greywalls is unquestionably one of Scotland's most distinctive country house hotels. An architectural delight by Sir Edwin Lutyens it sits in gardens inspired by Gertrude Jeckyll: what a partnership; what a joyous result. The curving, warm beige stone façade embraces arriving guests and manager Duncan Fraser leads an equally welcoming team. Originally named High Walls, nobody is quite sure why the possibly inapt Greywalls was chosen!

A more recent and distinguished partnership has lately elevated this celebrated place once more. Closed for a while as an hotel, it re-opened in 201o under the management of ICMI with food direction by the one and only Albert Roux. The result this time has brought new investment to charming bedrooms and a highly focussed dining operation offering superb taste, variety and indeed value. Critics are impressed.

Chef Derek Johnston, decidedly a rising star chef, heads up a skilled team incl. Pâtissier of the Year 2011 Ross Baxter. Chez Roux restaurant is a classic space given a contemporary twist; pretty windows overlook Muirfield golf course and the sea. From afternoon teas to Sunday lunches or celebration dinners the venue and food work in a rare harmony. Relax in library, drawing room, smart bar or on the terrace when fine; enjoy the walled gardens with statuary, photogenic lines of sight, oculus and quiet places.

Edinburgh is only half an hour or so by car; North Berwick much closer. Golf apart, local attractions include the Museum of Flight (which has a magnificent Concorde), Tantallon Castle and the Scottish Seabird Centre. East Lothian has a rolling, seaside charm about it. Greywalls was popular with kings and high society from the off. Today, happily, it is an on-form country hotel without direct equal in Scotland.

Self-catering manor available adjacent: The Colonel's House.

4 Gold Stars - Country House Hotel

© 2011 | Judges & Researchers | The Scottish Hotel Awards & Guide


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