Restaurant review: Let the world slip by at homely oasis of The Grouse and Claret in Kinross
Murray Chalmers finds a hidden gem in Kinross where a spectacular setting meets delicious food.
Grouse and claret might feel like a combination somewhat out of time right now, given that we’re still eating strawberries whilst enjoying enough summer sun to banish lockdown’s ghostly, haunted pallor – a look so 2021 that it became as universal as Adidas stripes, 10lb weight gains and hangovers on a Tuesday.
But, to the incredulity of my friends in London, I last lit a log fire in my house just a few weeks ago – albeit not so much for the heat as for the dreich-dispelling cheery glow only a living flame can provide on a miserably sunless summer’s day.
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With his first restaurant review of the year, Murray Chalmers opts to visit a restaurant in Perth that redefines his love of food.
“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating,” Luciano Pavarotti.
I’d been looking forward to eating at the The North Port for quite some time, ever since I started following head chef/owner Andrew Moss on Instagram.
His online posts are so inspiring and alluring that it was obvious a great talent was at work here. Although he and I must agree to differ on the merits of jokingly calling Nicola Sturgeon Jimmy Krankie in a celebratory announcement about the restaurant’s reopening.