Carnoustie Golf Hotel & Spa

If you're a golf buff, you could test your mettle against the infamously tricky Carnoustie golf course that hosted the 2007 British Open. It is an ever-present backdrop to the upmarket modern Carnoustie Golf Hotel whose Dalhousie Restaurant allows golfing gastronomes to indulge both their hobbies - watching the action on the fairways through vast windows while dining on straightforward traditional cooking built on top-class local ingredients. It is a clean-cut contemporary space with attentive staff to ensure meals go with a swing, starting perhaps with chicken liver parfait with brioche and chutney - all made in-house - ahead of baked salmon fillet with green-lipped mussels and herb butter sauce, or beef bourguignon with roasted root vegetables and rich red wine jus.