Thyme - Highland

The staff were friendly, attentive and very helpful. Breakfast was well set out and staff quickly refilled any shortages. Hot breakfasts were cooked to order and I wish more hotels/restaurants would do the same. To me there is nothing worse than fried eggs with a hard skin on the white because they have been kept warm under a warming lamp. One up to this Premier Inn!

We stopped at this restaurant for a meal after a day of sightseeing. The decor was charming and the atmosphere was pleasant. The staff was polite, friendly, and efficient. My partner ordered the slow-cooked pork loin chop, which was delicious and tender. I had the Gammon steak which I really enjoyed, although the fried egg was overcooked. We plan to return on our next vacation.

I waited 10 minutes for a drink and it reminded me of a pub in Whiteinch. Then I waited 40 minutes for my gammon steak. It took another 10 minutes to pay my bill at the bar. The menu was not great for the working men staying at the hotel next door. The next night, a group of us went to Frank Benny's where the menu was more appropriate.

I reviewed this restaurant recently in which I criticised it for being slow and food cold when it arrived. I visited again this week and had friends with me this time . This visit was worse than last time , different staff this time , it was 3ladies last time , this time it was 3 men/lads . The service was diabolical to say the least , and one member of staff at the bar was rude to say the least, BUT that may have been lost in translation as English was not his first language . It took 45 mins for our started to arrive AND that was after we had to ask what was happening , it wasn’t busy as we were the second table to sit as it was only 5.15, this continued into the main course , we had to ask the staff to clear the table and ask for our main course , again took an absolutely age , and my course was piping hot in parts and cold in others I.e. chips and veg cool pie piping hot. They walked about absolutely unaware that we had finished eating and again had to ask to clear the table , this continued into the dessert as well . Won’t be using this restaurant again if same staff there , would rather walk further into Inverness to eat , which is a pain as I use the hotel (which is great) regularly for business .

I ate there last night , the staff were pleasant and polite and it’s nice and clean . The speed of service was okay . I had spicy noodles with car grilled chicken breast . The noodles were microwaved to death gone to mush and blisteringly hot the ‘chicken breast’ was strange and seemed a lesser cut than breast and it seemed to have such a thin skin on it that I actually felt they had cooked it in its plastic covering ! , not sure I will,eat there again , but I will be using the premier Inn it’s part of .