A dream destination for golfing gourmets, Geoffrey and Katherine Smeddle’s restaurant-with-rooms offers Michelin-starred cooking just a 12-minute drive from St Andrews.

Close to Loch Shiel, this old coaching inn has hosted travellers along the Road to the Isles since the 17th century.

'The welcome and food are always wonderful,' write trusted readers on a return visit to this restaurant-with-rooms, occupying a Victorian terrace house in a coastal hamlet close to glorious Lunan Bay.

In a sleepy village in the Scottish Borders, Katrina and William Reynolds’ ‘friendly village inn’ is an ‘excellent-value’ base for walkers, cyclists, fisherfolk and visitors in search of a rural break.

Robert and Helen Hicks’ restaurant with rooms, crafted from an 18th-century manse on the waterfront, is full of charming suprises.

Take afternoon tea on the terrace at this former Victorian tweed mill and you hear nothing but birdsong and the plash of the Gynack Burn that once powered the looms.

Kilted doormen greet you at Rocco Forte’s stonking Victorian former railway hotel, with its iconic clocktower, lavish public spaces, bedrooms designed with Olga Polizzi's light-touch elegance, a choice of dining, a spa and legendary Palm Court tearoom.