A three-course lunch is served at the brightly furnished conservatory What else does it offer? A three-course lunch menu priced at £37 brings locals in, which adds buzz. Think locally foraged wild mushroom dashi and a ramen broth using grouse from a Perthshire estate, served in a brightly furnished conservatory with foliage decorating the atrium. However, the chef Darin Campbell - he was previously No 2 to Andrew Fairlie at Scotland’s only two-Michelin-star restaurant in Gleneagles - now offers a lighter, spicier celebration of seasonal Scottish produce and punchy eastern flavours, plundering the hotel’s large polytunnel and raised beds. Under the watch of the Chez Roux group, food is shamelessly French and creamy (a twice-baked cheese soufflé was the star turn). The rooms feature chandeliers, antique dressers and homemade shortbread Food and drink It has fine views over the front lawn and a freestanding tub in a bathroom so big it needs its own centrepiece designer pouffe. Best room in the house? The two fairytale Turret Suites take some beating, and you can self-cater in the Laurel Gate Lodge, but Sears’s favourite is Allium. Antique dressers echo the hotel’s past striking chandeliers and funky art - gallery wall-style - are all about the now. The bedrooms, all with individual looks, have new coffee stations, with homemade shortbread made with Murray’s granny’s recipe. The colour blitz continues in the bedrooms, which are a tasteful riot of vivid Farrow & Ball shades, busy floral wallpaper and Victorian-style headboards. This article contains affiliate links which may earn us revenue With fresh flowers from its gardens cheering up every mantelpiece, a quietly funky playlist where before no music played, and child-friendly touches throughout, Sears has breathed new - and very welcome - life into the old place. Murray reportedly finds Sears’s taste bizarre, but the hotel needed some love. In their place hang bright, bold Damien Hirsts and David Shrigleys from the Murrays’ collection there are eye-catching modern works on loan from the Royal Scottish Academy.
On the walls, Victorian watercolours have gone. A relaid electric blue snooker table is typical of the new colour-popping look. With the interior designer Suzanne Garuda - she also did up the Murrays’ Surrey home - Sears has set to work replacing tired tweed and tartan with crushed velvet and statement wallpapers. Out went ICMI, in came Murray’s wife, Kim Sears. Murray brought in Inverlochy Castle Management International (ICMI), in whose safe hands the former Victorian manse became a quiet, traditional escape for quiet, traditional guests. A drop shot (OK, three miles) from Andy Murray’s childhood home in Dunblane, this 15-bedroom country house hotel hit the headlines when the tennis star bought it in 2013.
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