Dolls House Restaurant (St Andrews)

Advantages: Lots of Yummy food
Disadvantages: Too far to visit on a regular basis!

Whenever I visit my Aunt and Uncle in Strathkiness, I always visit St. Andrews and there I found a quaint restaurant. It is called the ‘The Doll's House Restaurant’ and is located in the heart St Andrews, the home of golf. It is a friendly and yet very intimate restaurant, which is entering its eighth year of business and seats around eighty customers. The restaurant is furnished with warm candlelit tables and the walls are adorned with wooden shelves, ...
...the mind to wonder back to the carefree childhood days. So why not sit down and enjoy some time away from the hassle and bustle created by modern life. ‘Opening Times’ ‘The Doll's House Restaurant’ is opened from 10am till 10pm Monday to Saturday and 12 noon till 10pm Sunday. Lunches are served between 12 noon and 3pm. A set two-course menu will cost you under £7.00 per person. Dinners are served between 6pm and 10pm. There is an a la carte menu ... Read review

Advantages: superb atmosphere, friendly staff, excellent food
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest place in town

...husband's 40th, I found the Dolls House Restaurant website and decided to book a table. We went there on a Saturday night. The restaurant is in the middle of St Andrews, in Church Square, and opposite the Church. There were four of us for dinner, my husband and I, and two friends. When we arrived, the atmosphere felt warm and welcoming. The staff were excellent, and very friendly towards us. The restaurant feels intimate, it probably seats about ...
...plenty of old toys and games, for a nostalgic feel. The service felt about the right pace, not too rushed, and not too slow either. The menu has something for everyone, with a range of fish, meat, poultry and vegetarian dishes. I started with duck a l'orange, which was very nice, and had peppercorn through it. I continued with Parmesan chicken with red Pesto, again delicious. There was an extensive specials board, two of the party had a wonderful ... Read review

Advantages: The toilets were very clean.
Disadvantages: Too many to mention here...

It's not often I contribute to these kinds of reviews panels, but on this occasion, I feel I must. We arrived at The Doll's House as a group of six, and, for the first half hour were attended to promptly and politely. However, on looking at the menu - which can only be described as minimalistic - we were shocked by the prices. When our food arrived, after a long and complicated ordering process in which we felt that the waitress did not listen to ...
...such a drawn out manner that by the time the last meal came to the table, the first to arrive was flat cold (which, incidentally, was mine, and could not be described as hot when it arrived). The vegetables which came with the food would have fed three at most, yet we were compelled to spread them between six, and when we asked for some more, a significantly smaller portion arrived, long after our meals were cold (and in some cases, completely eaten). ... Read review

Advantages: Keeping the fuel costs down by not heating the food much
Disadvantages: Now, if you had been, where would you start?

Good food and good service are what one is used to in a good restaurant these days - to have poor food served while a number of children are encouraged to do laps of a restaurant to their own high volume outpouring is not what adds greatly to the night when my wife and I were out to celebrate our twentieth anniversary. The steak I was served with was almost warm. Sadly the veg did not meet those heady heights on the food front. If you ran a restaurant ...
...with flash. Would you have asked him to resume his seat after ten shots - or twenty perhaps? How would a number in excess of fifty make you feel? I suppose you would have let them off if the food had been really good. To be told by the staff that the above mentioned things are quite acceptable added to the dining experience in a rather different way. My lingering thought is the comment I would imagine Gordon Ramsay passing to such standards. Guess ... Read review

Advantages: We went to the Grill House instead were the staff are excellent.
Disadvantages: My mother has difficulty walking and we had to walk elsewhere.

My 80 year old mother and I were recently on holiday in St Andrews and wished to have lunch at the Doll's House. When we arrived at the restaurant, we could see that all the inside tables were free and also half of those outside. We went inside, only to be told by a waitress that the restaurant was full and that no tables were available. This was endorsed in a very condescending manner, by a gentleman, who told us to come back in 45 minutes. My mother ... Read review