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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

The Townhouse

56/100
  • Melrose, Scottish Borders
  • Modern British brasserie
  • Mid-range
  • Beta
  • Assessed July 2026
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These are confidence labels. They show how sure we are that what we publish still reflects the restaurant's current practice. They are not a judgement on the restaurant; the wine and cooking are scored separately, out of 100.

  • Beta means assessed and scored, but we are still confirming some details (such as the current wine list) and the restaurant has not yet had the chance to correct any factual inaccuracy, so it is published with that caveat.
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  • In development means not yet a review. It appears so you can see where coverage is coming.

Restaurants often change their menus. The date beside the label says when we last reviewed.

We assessed The Townhouse in July 2026 and this review is based on the food menu and wine list at the time of the review. As menus and wine lists change, we name styles in order for the information to remain more useful as menus change. If things have slipped you can use the Vinealto Dining app including accessing an up to date reading using 'At the Table' from the wine list in front of you in the restaurant. How we assess

The Townhouse is a Borders hotel brasserie and restaurant cooking a seasonal modern British menu from good Scottish produce across two rooms. Its wine programme is a traditional bottle list with a genuine and gently-priced Bordeaux heart, let down for a wine lover only by the lack of a by-the-glass offer and a little looseness in how it is kept. It will most reward the diner who is happy to choose a bottle for the table and knows to look to the clarets, where the list is at its most serious and its best value.

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  • Mid-range, with a fine-wine cellar
  • Assessed October 2026
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