Clarets Cafe & Brasserie

You're walking up the stairs of the R&A World Golf Museum on Bruce Embankment, and suddenly you've got yourself a proper restaurant with actual ambition. Clarets sits perched above the golf memorabilia and tourist crowds, giving you space to breathe—and more importantly, to eat properly. The menu pivots between brasserie classics and Scottish ingredients done right, the kind of place where you can pop in for coffee and a snack or settle in for a proper lunch without feeling out of place either way.