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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

The Selkirk Arms Hotel

58/100
  • Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway
  • Hotel bar, bistro and restaurant, Scottish and international
  • By the glass
  • ££
  • Beta
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The Selkirk Arms is a harbour-town hotel bistro in Kirkcudbright serving a daily-changing menu of Scottish and international plates. Its wine list is a compact, supplier-led selection that covers the food competently and reaches up to a few genuinely good bottles, let down mainly by a thin sparkling shelf and by offering no pairing guidance for its own cured-fish plates. It will suit the traveller or local who wants an honest glass without study, and rewards the wine lover who arrives already knowing to ask for something unoaked and high in acid.

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