It’s easy to find yourself in the rough at the new all-day brasserie at Gleneagles
Birnam Brasserie, Gleaneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire PH3 1NF (01764 694 270). Meal for two, including drinks and service £140
Scotland is full of extraordinary sights. One of them lies a few miles from the town of Auchterarder. You sweep down off the barren calm of the Ochil hills and quickly find yourself in the midst of a boutique shopping parade flogging cashmere thongs, wild pearl earrings at £1,000 a pop and hyper-expensive watches to people who don’t need to know the time, courtesy of a branch of Mappin & Webb.
Blimey, but it’s odd. Drive past the golf club and the men who choose to dress like that and arrive in high-end luxe
The food is a weird mixture of adequate, good and 'what were they thinking?'
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