Best Cosy Restaurants in Castle Douglas

Visited on New Years Day to celebrate my mums 80th birthday. Great menu and drinks choice. Food lovely. The service and atmosphere are just perfect. Ardnamurchan is such a great restaurant and perfect for groups and couples.

We went to Elena’s with two Spaniards who like good food. They said the food was as good as their favourite restaurants in San Sebastián. Mussels were gorgeous as was the mor Coll o. Service was fab and price of food was great value for money. Definitely most authentic Spanish food in town.

We had a great experience, Service was fast and efficient, Staff very friendly during serving, Cocktails were lovely and value for money given the size of glasses they were served in. Food was lovely, 4 x starters & 4 x mains and all were lovely, hot, well cooked and decent size portions. Very reasonably priced. My only issue I would say we experienced, was we booked as a table of 5 and in email states we are entitled to 2hours for our table, unfortunately someone didn’t make it on the evening, however we where never told that this would alter our time to 1hr 30mins due to becoming a table of 4. However this would have been unknown to anyone when further bookings were taking for the evening in advance. Around 7:30/7:35 staff started wondering passed and looking too see if we where finished and at 7:45 we noticed another family standing around waiting for a table when we then got asked if we would like our bill. It almost felt like we were being rushed off our table to give it to the family who was waiting to be seated. However as our booking was originally for 5 and had all 5 of us turned our booking confirmation states we had our table till 8pm so don’t understand why a family was waiting for it at 7:45 anyway and we where made to feel rushed out. If staff had looked at our booking they would see that our booking was for 5ppl even though only 4 turned up. Or if staff had just came over and politely said could we finish up drinks as they needed the table (despite us still have time onit) we would happily have finished our drinks quicker and left. It was a lovely evening and we would definitely go back as food ect was lovely. However I think staff have to be mindful of seating, booking and maybe the way they act of customers are picking up on certain behaviours when staff feel like they should be leaving.

Second time visiting Number 16 and it yet again did not disappoint. Such a relaxed atmosphere created for a place thats serving some of the most delicious food out there. Festive menu offered great variety for all. Cooked to perfection. Service was superb. All around great place for a special occasion. Will be back soon.

My family just had Christmas dinner in The Prancing Stag. The environment, service especially the food are absolutely amazing. Strong recommend. Had a wonderful time.