Family Favourites and Local Specialities
Take a trip out to a local pub or speciality restaurant, stroll down to the on-site bar and restaurant, arrange for caterers to deliver to your lodge, or drive to collect a takeaway – you will find plenty to whet your appetite.
Here are some of the choices available during your stay – all are at most 30 minutes drive from the lodges.
Authentic Pubs
Inns full of character with food offerings ranging from traditional Scottish pub fare to local speciality bistro-pubs listed by Michelin and the AA. Four of the best are featured here.
On the Site
There’s nothing like being able to walk a short distance from your lodge to a friendly food-serving pub – which is what the Beagle, part of the Barend site, offers. Inside and outside sitting areas, a range of real ales, and a changing menu. Book through the website.
Speciality Restaurants
From an imaginative culinary take on an ancient ‘anti-English’ treaty, to creative use of the best local produce from land and sea – just a few of the diverse range of restaurants in the area.
Takeaway and Delivery
Nearby towns offer a range of takeaway options, or use the local professional caterers for a memorable dinner party. There’s even a speciality cake supplier for celebration cakes.
Unique to the Area
As well as the unmistakeable Belted Galloway cattle pictured here, you’ll find that the area is home to numerous distinctive food and drink offerings to explore.
The Beagle Country Pub
Dine inside or in the covered courtyard at the on-site ‘Beagle’. Excellent food all day from a wide menu including pizzas.’ Book online through their Website.
The Anchor Hotel
With a delightful setting on the Urr Water as it approaches the Solway, the Anchor at Kippford offers good pub food and local real ales.
Carlos Restaurant
In nearby Castle Douglas, an authentic Italian restaurant regarded as one of southern Scotlands best, with an emphasis on dishes using fresh local fish.
Castle Douglas Food Town
A surprisingly wide range of restaurants, cafes and specialist food shops on offer in the areas 'Food Town'.
Hullabaloo 'To You'
A dinner party catering service available for groups of any size staying at Thistle Lodges.
Clonyard Hotel
A small hotel near Rockcliffe serving a range of home cooked dishes, many featuring locally sourced Solway seafood.
Caterbirds
A locally based catering company with extensive menu choices for your dinner party at Thistle Lodges
Luigi's Italian
An Italian restaurant which welcomes families and offers an extensive menu, a short drive away in Dalbeattie
Steamboat Inn
A fascinating and quirky pub full of interest with an extensive menu, in a spectacular location right on the Solway coast.
Annette's Baking in a Box
Mouthwatering cakes and savoury pastries, celebration cakes and gourmet picnics, all delivered to your lodge
Galloway Wild Foods
Delicious and nutritious food for free - amazing information on coastal, woodland and hedgerow foraging, guided walks and tuition
Balcary Bay Hotel
Country House dining with an emphasis on local produce at a coastal hotel with stunning views
Auld Alliance Restaurant
A restaurant in Kirkudbright with a menu featuring dishes which reflect the historic links between Scotland and France
Selkirk Arms
A hotel restaurant in Kirkudbright with menus descibed as "Scottish Mediterranean with a twist"
Loch Arthur Community
A unique working community helping those with learning disabilities. Café, farm shop and award winning creamery
The Pizza Wagon
Superb authentic take-away pizzas from a mobile wood-fired oven which regularly visits local villages, including nearby Colvend
JJ's Fish and Chip Shop
Good quality fish and chips from a family -run shop in the village of Southerness - about 7 miles away