POPULAR cafes in Scotland’s most iconic museums have been named among the best in the whole of the UK.<\/p>\n
The top 50 lists shared by The Guardian\u00a0featured lovely eateries\u00a0across the country, including Corner at\u00a0the Tate Modern and the\u00a0Coliseum Coffee House\u00a0at the Ceredigion Museum in Wales.<\/p>\n
If you’re looking to enjoy a nice cuppa while exploring some of the best exhibitions around, here are some of the best museum cafes in Scotland.<\/p>\n
See the museum cafes in Scotland named among the best in the UK<\/p>\n
These are the museum cafes<\/a> in Scotland<\/a>\u00a0that have been named among the top 50 in the UK by The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Scottish Cafe and Restaurant, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh<\/p>\n Scottish National Gallery and Edinburgh Castle (Image: Getty Images) This beloved “Edinburgh institution,” which is “tucked beneath” the Scottish National Gallery, enjoys views of\u00a0the Old Town and the Scott Monument.<\/p>\n Here, traditional Scottish dishes can be found, including deep bowls of creamy cullen skink soup, Aberdeen butteries (bread rolls) with haggis\u00a0and “superb” scones.<\/p>\n Inside\u00a0the caf\u00e9, with its “vibrant” interiors, celebrates Scottish designers like\u00a0Mairi Helena.<\/p>\n The Burrell Collection restaurant, Glasgow<\/p>\n According to the newspaper, this space “feels somewhere between a summer house and a church” thanks to its open look, which\u00a0“skillfully” blurs\u00a0the line\u00a0between Pollok Park\u00a0and\u00a0the museum interior.<\/p>\n A \u00a368 million revamp of the museum and gallery created this bright extension, allowing visitors to relax while checking out the “diverse collection”\u00a0donated to Glasgow by\u00a0Sir William Burrell.<\/p>\n All sorts of meals can be found here, including\u00a0toasted sourdough sandwiches and\u00a0Angus steak burgers.<\/p>\n Fruitmarket Cafe, the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh<\/p>\n In recent years, the\u00a0Fruitmarket Cafe has “flourished into a real haven for both art and food lovers,” according to the publication.<\/p>\n The location serves all sorts of “brunch favourites” like baked eggs with top\u00a0ingredients like chorizo, tomato and flaked almonds or aubergine, feta and pickled onion.<\/p>\n On a cold day, visitors can enjoy\u00a0the kala chana, a black chickpea curry with roast cauliflower and spinach.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading:Stone Cafe, Perth Museum<\/p>\n The newspaper writes that\u00a0“a few\u00a0Perthshire eyebrows were raised” when Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo was awarded the contract to transform the dilapidated Perth city hall into a museum.<\/p>\n Now, the location is fondly looked upon as a “dynamic reimagining” of the Renaissance-style structure, which holds the Stone of Destiny.<\/p>\n The associated Stone Cafe has also become a well-liked eatery\u00a0with its vaulted windows creating a “light welcoming” space with views of St John’s Kirk.<\/p>\n Scottish comfort food is apparently the highlight of the menu here, with bowls of haggis, neeps and tatties and\u00a0stovies being offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POPULAR cafes in Scotland’s most iconic museums have been named among the best in the whole of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,27651,27650,4884,712,27649,27652,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-51569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh-castle","10":"tag-fruitmarket-gallery","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-scottish-national-gallery","14":"tag-traditional-scottish-dishes","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114403136189563154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}