Finalist - Scottish Restaurant of the Year 2009
Runner Up - AA Best Seafood Restaurant, Scotland 2007
Winner - AA Best Seafood Restaurant, Scotland 2006

Menus at the Tolbooth Seafood Restaurant
The Tolbooth is renowned for its innovative seafood menu. The blackboard features the ‘daily catch’ with freshly caught langoustines, lobster and crab a regular feature. Our food is based on superb locally sourced produce which our chef turns into modern contemporary dishes with light aromatic sauces and dressings which compliment, not mask the flavour of our food.

Everything is made in the Tolbooth’s kitchen, from the bread rolls, to ice cream, and even our fabulous white chocolate fudge served with the coffee, this is so good it can be purchased to take away, although it is so good it may not last the journey home!!

We are more than happy to cater for most allergies, please advise us when reserving your table
of your intolerence/allergy. The chef will be happy to discuss any special requirements you may have.
Children are most welcome at The Tolbooth as long as they are well behaved. We have a selection of dishes suitable for our young guests and many of our regular menu items can be ordered in smaller portions.

RESTAURANT A LA CARTE

Our restaurant a la carte menu is available lunch and dinner (Tues - Sat and Sun dinners in the summer months).
The menu changes four times a year to incorporate the best local, seasonal produce. We do make every effort to keep these menus updated, however our menus do sometimes change at short notice depending on levels of catch at the harbour and local markets.

Lobster - the Lobster season runs fom May till the end of September, during this period we aim to have lobster most days, this again relies on the availability from local fishermen and the Scottish weather! If you are particularly wishing lobster at anytime of the year please phone the restaurant and we will endeavour to fufil your request

Starter

• Stonehaven Crab Soup 5⁹⁵rich soup made with local brown and white crabmeat, tomatoes and a little sherry
• Six Oysters on the Half Shell 10⁹⁵with lemon, tabasco, shallot & red wine vinegar
• Hot Smoked Monkfish 7⁵⁰home smoked and served on white asparagus with a bois boudrain dressing
• Steamed Shetland Mussels 6⁵⁰steamed in white wine and finished with a daily flavouring topped with a wedge of rosemary foccacia

• Scottish Salmon Gravadlax 6⁷⁵cured with beetroot and whisky, potato blinis and a vodka infused crème fraiche
• Rabbit & Pistachio Terrine 6⁹⁵wrapped in a smokey bacon, lightly pickled vegetables and a watercress salad
• Local Crowdie Cheese 5⁹⁵rolled in a selection of paprika, curry and mushroom powders served with micro shoots and seeded wafer biscuits

Main Courses

• Steamed Fillet of Sea Bass 18⁹⁵on a ginger mash, oriental mushrooms and a salsa verde, garnished with seared squid
• Roasted Fillet of Hake 17⁹⁵local crab & lemon risotto, roasted pak choi hearts, red amaranth and a Thai dressing
• Organic Shetland Salmon 18⁵⁰lightly poached in a vegetable & lemon nage with a dill, cucumber and lime yoghurt, shaved fennel and a saffron potato salad
• Hand Dived, West Coast Scallops 23⁹⁵bacon crisp, sweetcorn, pea puree, sauted potato cubes and a bacon foam

• Crispy Thyme 'Mille Feuille' 15⁹⁵layers of filo pastry, cep mushrooms, sunblush tomatoes & thai grass, topped with a quenelle of ratte potato and a truffle viniagrette
• Pork Fillet 16⁹⁵stuffed with langoustines, on crushed Jersey royals, black pudding and a sage and apple pureé
• Angus Glen Venison Loin 21⁵⁰purple potato mash, spiced red cabbage, beetroot and a port and bitter chocolate sauce

Desserts

• Trio of Strawberry 6²⁵candied strawberries with a shortbread crumble, strawberry & black pepper ice cream, strawberry & basil soup
• Milk Chocolate & Baileys Crème Brulée 6²⁵ topped with a caramelised sugar crust and vanilla tuile tubes
• Baked Alaska 6²⁵vanilla ice cream on a lemon rapeseed oil cake, lemon curd & covered in meringue

• Treacle Tart 6²⁵served warm, clotted cream and a pistachio nougatine
• A Selection of Fine Cheese 7⁹⁵selected from Iain Mellis in Aberdeen and served with homemade oatcakes and grapes

2 courses from £13.95, 3 courses from £16.95Set Price Lunch Menu -