The Inn At Kingsbarns

We stayed for two nights whilst walking the Fife coastal path in February 2025 from Crail to St Andrews. Our long weekend has been excellent from the warm welcome, great service, fantastic food and comfortable room. Would highly recommend.

What a find. Staying in St Andrews and visiting the distillery - looked online for lunch and found this little gem. Quality food at a very reasonable price. Service was spot on. Restaurant very small so book to avoid disappointment. There’s also a lovely beer garden if the weather allows. Can’t wait to return.

Excellant location, stayed for a couple of nights over New Year 2025. Food was 10/10, room was a little cold, the Inn does not have double glazing, there are radiators in the room but they are under the windows, apart from that I would recommend the Inn for a short break.

Our friends booked our ‘Christmas lunch” We are all fairly local and we are delighted to say what a lovely lunch we had. Not a traditional Xmas lunch( our choice). The starters were very freshly prepared and presented beautifully on HOT plates. Three had traditional turkey and one had salmon. The presentation was excellent and the quality was tip top. We were all too full for pudding ….. The service was attentive and efficient. All in all a very good lunch and I would not hesitate to recommend. Top tip. Book in advance as this is going to be busy once word gets around.

Following a 19km walk from Anstruther, an icy cold beer & locally sourced food sounded brilliant. We were staying locally, so the venue is perfect. Local beers in the sunshine great, chilli con carne tasty, but fajitas swimming in oil unpleasant. Yes for drinks, dinner not so much.

I had waited so long to visit The Inn at Kingsbarns, I have been tracing back my family tree and my family come from Kingsbarns so this has been a long awaited visit for me as I am not local to the area. I had wanted to book an overnight stay but was told when I phoned a couple of weeks before that during July and August I would have to book a minimum of 2 nights and at £150 a night, that's pretty pricey so I decided against it. We had a lovely meal, our waiter was attentive and helpful, the food was good. The waiting staff were really lovely. No complaints there. However, it was the manager who absolutely ruined our visit. There was a young family in the restaurant, the 2 small children were beautifully behaved and utilising the games provided by the pub. However, we witnessed the manager 'rip into' the family for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than the children had dropped a game on the floor (which was being picked up by said children). It was quite distressing and to be honest, totally unnecessary. I don't understand why the pub provide games for children when they clearly irritate the owners. All rather bizarre and actually upsetting to witness. Not what you expect when you are just going for a pub meal! There is a lot more I could say about this incident and how rude the manager was but, having read his responses to people who criticise his establishment, I think it would just go over his head. I do hope that the manager responds by publicly apologising to the family we witnessed him 'ripping into' for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I think it's the least he can do.