Mill One Restaurant

Nice menu. Excellent food. We were guests in the hotel. Dined twice in the restaurant.
Had a bread platter as an entrée. Not with butter, no with pesto, olive dip and a tomato saus. Really tasty, not too powerful.
In the two days we ate a ceaser salade, a pasta, a hamburger and a duck dish.
I particulary liked the duck.
All in all we recommand this restaurant highly.

Just the place for a delicious and indulgent meal, in beautiful surroundings. We enjoyed dinner as part of our stay at the New Lanark Mill Hotel (reviewed separately) and would certainly return again to dine or stay.
The staff were so welcoming and professional, and seemed to enjoy their jobs and chat with us about our meal (but also leave us alone to enjoy each other’s company!).
For starters we had a goats cheese stack which was a soft and delicate cheese with a pastry disc, coupled with tangy sauce and salad. This was very tasty and just the right size for a starter. The vegetable platter was huge, and featured pickled roasted vegetables (a little heavy on the dill side for my tastes but accompanied with wedges of tasty bread and breadsticks. The balsamic vinegar glaze pot was small and rich, and the olives very melt in the mouth– a perfect combination with the mozzarella cheese.
I had a Corra Linn cheese soufflé for a main (this is named after the nearby waterfall and is a local cheese), which was served on a bed of fresh garden peas and a creamy herb sauce– rich and tangy at the same time as it had a perfect balance of seasoning. The wild mushroom strudel was not quite what we expected in appearance (thought it would be a round, rather than a little pastry parcel) but was a generous portion and contained a huge variety of mushrooms.
Dessert was ah-​may-​zing and I actually took a photo of our empty plates as if they had had a pattern on we would have almost scraped them off! The chocolate brownie was dark and well baked, accompanied by chocolate tuilles and very alcoholic tasting cherries. My ‘coconut delice’ was a chunky yet delicate sizeable slice of coconut ice cream, with passion fruit sauce and pineapple salsa. Seriously– it was if they knew we were coming and made our desserts specially :)

I love New Lanark, it’s World Heritage mill buildings, it’s history, and through a small gate the wildlife reserve — the Falls of Clyde. Improbably, the same river that downstream was to become the world’s greatest workshop of the industrial age is a natural jewel, with gorgeous waterfalls immortalised by Wordsworth and committed to canvas by Turner, and with a deep gorge that cuts through ancient woodland, cliffs with nesting peregrines, and William Wallace’s cave (reputedly). Beautiful… but as a tip bear in mind that the waterfalls are far better seen when the weir is down on so-​called «Waterfall Days» and/​or when the river is in spate.
Anyway it’s in one of these mills, in the New Lanark Mill Hotel that the Mill One restaurant is situated. My dad booked lunch, but he needn’t have bothered. It wasn’t busy, in fact at first it was utterly devoid of anyone else. It is a stylish, contemporary room on the first floor and if only they’d built these buildings for leisure we would have hada great view of the river. The young waiter was glad of our company I think and we were treated well. We all ordered the Salmon Caesar Salad and the Sunday Roast.
The salad came served in a glass, which is not very practical for eating it so we tipped it all out onto our plates. The salmon was very mild and refreshing, but the Caesar salad wasn’t one, it had no croutons in it and as such was more of a coleslaw and lettuce. It lacked textures. It wasn’t bad though. Patrons started to appear! The roast was really good, the meat was cooked to match most tastes, a bit over for me but it’s one roast for all after all. The classic roast vegetables were perfectly cooked with just a slight bite and there were plenty of them. A perfect Yorkshire pud too, if only there were two and a bit more gravy!