Saffron Innerleithen (authentic Indian And Takeaway)

No1 Peebles Road

➤ 1 Peebles Rd, EH44 6QX, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

Vegan • French • British • Vegetarian

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"this is one must travel on their own, whether they are a local or a visitor are all welcome. from the minute they enter, they are greeted with a warm hallo from the kitchen. the atmosphere is cozy, especially when the fire is illuminated. they. can feel that the excitement of the drivers ready for their great journey, the dogs walker who all know, or the friends who catch up for coffee. eating is absolutely amazing, best celestial wig that I have ever had with strokes of butter and jam. thanks to craig and anna and the rest of the amazing staff. special thanks to the birthday candle, song and yummy scone. good. lynette (sydney australia)"

Saffron

➤ 68 High Street, EH44 6HA, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

Full • Indian • Drinks • Vegetarian

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"We were staying at the hotel up the road and really fancied a curry. We had read that this restaurant is very small, so I 'd emailed to reserve a table. The food itself was fine, we had poppadoms and chutneys which was lovely and the curry (chicken dhansak and butter chicken was tasty and there was ample of it, so much that we struggled to finish it. So glad that we didn 't have starters! It was nice enough, not the best I 've had but certainly not the worst either. The pilau rice was particularly nice and fluffy. It is indeed a teeny restaurant and unfortunately due to this, the tables are very close together. This isn 't a great problem, apart from the 4 people on the table next to us. The one woman was loud, dominating the conversation with her husband(? and friends, with a good sprinkling of F-words thrown in. Now I swear, but this was a little inappropriate and you should learn to 'read the room ' and perhaps tone down the swearing and the volume! Myself and hubby struggled to talk to each other as we would have had to have raised our voices above the woman on the next table. There were another older couple on another table and I noticed they kept looking at the woman too and didn 't look particularly happy and they left soon after. It was a shame really as it did spoil the evening a little. The woman then went out for a cigarette with one of the others and came back reeking of it, which was really off-putting (again being so close there was no avoiding it . We were hoping they would leave as they were finishing their main courses when we arrived, but they were still there when we left. Not the fault of the restaurant I know, but it did spoil it."

Traquair Arms

➤ Traquair Road, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

Tea • Steak • Drinks • British

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"this traditional pub seems to have lost a bit of character in a renovation at some place, but still none of the less. we had lunch. 2 of 3 meal times were nice! would definitely go back because it was just a problem with the...Reheating of the pulled pig. they won't blame us so it wasn't a problem. the waitress could benefit from some more training, but the man, I suppose is a manager of any kind, was great. very chatting and knowledgeable. a bit expensive, but was really delicious, so we don't mind."

Corner House

➤ 1 Chapel Street, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

Chinese • British • European • Vegetarian

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"Having come here with my friend who lives in the town, on a night where everywhere else seemed to be full, for a Friday night it was quiet, my friend had told me that while the takeaway was awful and was to be avoided, the food in the main hotel was better so I ordered the Chicken curry, it was a overly spicy bowl of rubber chicken and veg which was near enough burnt with rice that you could tell had been in a rice cooker all day, my friend however got the chicken and haggis and said it was wonderful, not sure whither it is the Chinese side of the menu which needs to be avoided or what, however it is clearly not a pleasant place to work we were sat on a table in the corner by the window fairly close to the entrance to the kitchen and from there we could hear the shouts of what we could only imagine as being the chef, was insane how when the young staff, when we were there it was a young girl and a man in his 20s they would both run in as if it was the 100m sprint followed by more shouting, however the manageress was no better appeared to be rather rude as when I caught her walking past and made 'the gesture for the bill ' she continued to walk to the bar. I had to walk to the bar and ask the barmaid for the bill as after that she was no where to be seen, safe to say we did not stay for anymore drinks."