Macdonalds Restaurant & Guest House
Pitlochry, Perthshire

This popular non smoking Guesthouse and Restaurant has a loyal following. Don’t even think about trying to get a room here at the start of the Pitlochry theatre season. While the rooms are nicely decorated and hospitality enormous, the best thing about the place is undoubtedly the food. Situated in the small Victorian Perthshire town of Pitlochry which, nestling in the Tummel Valley, is the geographical centre of Scotland and as holiday resort it and the surrounding district offer facilities unsurpassed for recreation and relaxation.

Pitlochry estimated population 2,564, is a burgh in the council area of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, lying on the River Tummel. It is largely a Victorian town, whose success as a tourist resort was due to Queen Victoria visiting the area in 1842 and the arrival of the railway in 1863. It remains a popular tourist resort today and is particularly known as a centre for hillwalking, surrounded by mountains such as Ben Y Vrackie. The town has retained many stone-built Victorian buildings. Pitlochry dates largely from Victorian times, though the area known as Moulin, once a separate village, is older. Moulin Kirk was granted by the Earl of Atholl to Dunfermline Abbey in 1180. Moulin became a burgh of barony in 1511. Pitlochry itself first started to grow after General George Wade built a road through the town as part of his effort to improve access to rural Scotland between 1725 and 1737 as a response to the Jacobite Rising of 1715.