The Gordon Arms Restaurant with Rooms

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👩‍🍳 Husband + wife team
🏡 Tiny team. 100% heart. 80% local
🌟 100 Best Local UK Restaurants 2024 & 2025 by The Good Food Guide
🪴Kitchen Garden
🥄 Chef Bryn cooks it all |Oxana hosts & bakes | Sir Thomas is the star!

**UPDATE!!!**🥇🥇🥇🥇Oh my goodness — FOUR GOLDS!!! 🤩We’ve just received the news that my Blackcurrant Varenye has also won ...
29/09/2026

**UPDATE!!!**🥇🥇🥇🥇

Oh my goodness — FOUR GOLDS!!! 🤩
We’ve just received the news that my Blackcurrant Varenye has also won GOLD, in the Homegrown or Foraged category!

So what started as three Golds has suddenly become FOUR! I genuinely cannot quite believe it. ❤️

What an incredible early birthday present! 🎁 🥂
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WOW. What a birthday present — and my birthday isn’t even until tomorrow! 🥹🥂🥇🥇🥇💃🏆💐

I still can’t quite believe this…🙃

I entered four jars of my homemade varenye into the World Jam Festival — and came home a TRIPLE GOLD WINNER! 🥇🥇🥇

🍓 Strawberry — GOLD
💛 Yellow Plum — GOLD
💚 Gooseberry — GOLD

And my Blackcurrant Varenye is a FINALIST in the Homegrown or Foraged category! 🖤

For years, friends and guests have told me: “Oxana, you have to enter these into a competition!” I never did. Then our wonderfully talented and multi-award winner neighbour Ena (Ena Mitchell) told me about the World Jam Festival… and finally, four years later, I thought: why not?!

It was all ridiculously last-minute. We found the jars, quickly made the labels, discovered that four jars fitted perfectly into an old wooden Port box 😂 — and drove 3½ hours to Newby Hall (Newby Hall & Gardens ) with them. 😂

Varenye is something very close to my heart: whole fruit, very little sugar, cooked for just five minutes — no pectin, no lemon, nothing else. A family recipe and tradition going back more than 100 years.

And the funniest part? This was the first year I had EVER made gooseberry varenye. We had beautiful gooseberries from our kitchen garden and simply followed my instinct. And it won GOLD. 🥹

All three Golds received 30/30 — 10/10 for taste, 10/10 for set and 10/10 for presentation.

I’m absolutely over the moon. 🤗🙃

Thank you to everyone who kept telling me to do this. Thank you to the judges. And thank you to our little kitchen garden. ❤️

What an unbelievable birthday present. 🥇🥇🥇

World Jam Festival

FROM OUR APPLE TREE TO YOUR SUNDAY LUNCH 🍏Some apples are made for eating straight from the tree.Ours most definitely ar...
26/09/2026

FROM OUR APPLE TREE TO YOUR SUNDAY LUNCH 🍏

Some apples are made for eating straight from the tree.

Ours most definitely are not. 😂

They’re wonderfully sharp — but cook them down and they make the most beautiful apple sauce. And tomorrow, that’s exactly where they’re going.

Sunday Lunch tomorrow:
Rare-breed Oxford Sandy and Black roast pork, proper roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, rich gravy, plenty of crackling — and our own apple sauce, made from apples picked from the tree just outside.

It doesn’t get much more local than that. 🍎

Come hungry.

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms
Yarrow Valley, Scottish Borders

Book online for tomorrow’s Sunday lunch: 🔗www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

Maximum flavour. Minimum fuss.

A little availability update from THE GORDON ARMS 🌿We’re fully booked for dinner tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow night (...
24/09/2026

A little availability update from THE GORDON ARMS 🌿

We’re fully booked for dinner tonight (Thursday) and tomorrow night (Friday) — thank you! ❤️

For the weekend, we have just two tables left for Saturday dinner.

And if lunch is more your thing, we still have availability for lunch Thursday–Saturday, as well as Sunday Lunch.

Come and see us in the Yarrow Valley — good food, a roaring fire and a very warm welcome await. 🔥🍷

Booking in advance is highly recommended.

🔗www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms, Yarrow Valley, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, TD7 5LE, UK

Steve Auty📞 07917 795047We’d love to introduce and wholeheartedly recommend Steve Auty — a local Yarrow Valley man and o...
23/09/2026

Steve Auty
📞 07917 795047

We’d love to introduce and wholeheartedly recommend Steve Auty — a local Yarrow Valley man and one of those increasingly rare people whose number you’re very pleased to have in your phone. 😊

Steve is a brilliant general handyman who can help with all sorts of jobs around the house — plumbing and electrical work, fitting showers, installing and repairing washing machines, dishwashers and tumble dryers, general household repairs and maintenance, appliances, and even some vehicle repairs.

But most importantly, he is reliable, thoughtful, incredibly tidy and meticulous. A genuinely lovely, modest man who takes real pride in doing things properly.

And perhaps the best recommendation we can give: if Steve says he can do it, he can. If he can’t, he’ll tell you. No nonsense, no pretending.

We trust him completely and couldn’t recommend him more highly.

So, if you have one of those jobs that needs someone capable, practical and trustworthy, give Steve a call:

Steve Auty
📞 07917 795047

Highly, highly recommended by THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms. ❤️


Our honey plums 💛 Another little crop from our kitchen garden, but this one is very special to us.Growing up, our family...
19/09/2026

Our honey plums 💛

Another little crop from our kitchen garden, but this one is very special to us.

Growing up, our family had a yellow plum tree, planted by our Papa. Its plums were incredibly soft, juicy and sweet — we called them “honey plums”.

Our tree here in Yarrow gives us almost exactly the same fruit. We eat them straight from the tree, and Oxana makes varenye with them.

But more than anything, they taste of childhood, home and the people we loved.

They may no longer be here with us, but somehow, when these little golden plums appear each year, it feels as though our family is sending us a little hello. 💛

17/09/2026

Some journeys are part of the destination. 🍂

The road home to THE GORDON ARMS, through the Yarrow Valley from Selkirk.

Quiet roads, autumn colours 🍁, fires lit, five rooms upstairs — and Bryn in the kitchen.

If you’ve been thinking about an autumn escape to the Scottish Borders, this might be your sign.

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms
Yarrow Valley, TD7 5LE, Scottish Borders

🔗 www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk - 🫶book your autumn escape 🍁

A rather exceptional German Pinot Noir. 🍷👏2022 Spätburgunder Vom Kalkstein — 100% Pinot Noir from sixth-generation famil...
15/09/2026

A rather exceptional German Pinot Noir. 🍷👏

2022 Spätburgunder Vom Kalkstein — 100% Pinot Noir from sixth-generation family w**emakers Weingut am Schlipf Schneider.

Vom Kalkstein means “from the limestone”. Hand-picked grapes, wild fermentation, around 18 months in large oak and bottled unfiltered.

Elegant, silky, beautifully fresh — and exceptional value for a w**e of this quality.

New on the w**e list at THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms. By the bottle.

And with Sunday roast? Absolutely. 🔥🍷

Germany makes seriously good Pinot Noir. This is a very fine example.

Please book your table online: 🔗www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms, Yarrow Valley, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, TD7 5LE, UK

Our Chef’s Midday Special — a no-choice two- or three-course lunch — takes dishes from our main menu and removes the exh...
15/09/2026

Our Chef’s Midday Special — a no-choice two- or three-course lunch — takes dishes from our main menu and removes the exhausting business of deciding what to order. 😉

This week:

🥦 Cream of broccoli & Stilton soup

🍝 Yarrow Valley venison & rabbit ragù
Fresh tagliatelle & aged Parmesan

🍨 Two scoops of award-winning ice cream
Including Oxana’s vanilla, made with local cream and eggs

2 courses £21 | 3 courses £24
“A proper lunch at a remarkably proper price,” as one of our guests once put it. We couldn’t really argue.

Available Thursday, Friday and Saturday lunchtime only.

And for those who do enjoy the exhausting business of choosing — our full main menu is available too. 😉

Booking is essential. Please book online:
www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms
Yarrow Valley · Scottish Borders · TD7 5LE

Maximum flavour. Minimum fuss.™️

🍴😋❤️

14/09/2026

September 2026. Kitchen Garden. THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms. Yarrow Valley. Scottish Borders.

Seared tuna with our kitchen-garden caponata - on our seasonal menu this week.Aubergines, courgettes and tomatoes grown ...
14/09/2026

Seared tuna with our kitchen-garden caponata - on our seasonal menu this week.

Aubergines, courgettes and tomatoes grown just outside our kitchen. Olives and pine nuts… not quite yet. 😉

On our seasonal menu this week.

Restaurant: Thu–Sat lunch & dinner | Sun lunch
Rooms: Thu-Sun
🔗www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk ⬅️ for online booking
📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms, Yarrow Valley, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, TD7 5LE, UK

Address

Selkirk
TD75LE

Opening Hours

Thursday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 10pm
Friday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 10pm
Saturday 12pm - 3pm
5pm - 10pm
Sunday 12pm - 3pm

Telephone

+44175082261

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