Guidebook for Dumfries

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Guidebook for Dumfries

Food Scene

Good food and local.
Little Italy
60 Moffat Road
Good food and local.
Great location on a sunny evening
10 locals recommend
The Swan
10 locals recommend
Great location on a sunny evening
Great food with real ale
13 locals recommend
Cavens Arms
20 Buccleuch St
13 locals recommend
Great food with real ale
A nice town to visit and Brodies is a modern restaurant.
13 locals recommend
Brodies
1-2 Holm St
13 locals recommend
A nice town to visit and Brodies is a modern restaurant.
Good Italian style restaurant that has themed nights.
17 locals recommend
Casa Mia Dumfries
53 Nunholm Rd
17 locals recommend
Good Italian style restaurant that has themed nights.
Eat in or carry out, the best chippy in the area? Possibly. Kirkcudbright is a nice town to visit, and what could be better than after walking around, than a fish supper?
Polarbites
Eat in or carry out, the best chippy in the area? Possibly. Kirkcudbright is a nice town to visit, and what could be better than after walking around, than a fish supper?

Sightseeing

Many events take place during summer. Selkirk Arms is the place to eat excellent food. Polar Bites for fish and chips!
51 locals recommend
Kirkcudbright
51 locals recommend
Many events take place during summer. Selkirk Arms is the place to eat excellent food. Polar Bites for fish and chips!
A great day out on the water and you can hire boats and bikes from the activity centre. You pay to launch from the centre. There is a free public slip for kayaks just before the centre.
11 locals recommend
Loch Ken
11 locals recommend
A great day out on the water and you can hire boats and bikes from the activity centre. You pay to launch from the centre. There is a free public slip for kayaks just before the centre.
A nice wee village with a couple of pubs and a romantic ruined abbey
19 locals recommend
Sweetheart Abbey
Main Street
19 locals recommend
A nice wee village with a couple of pubs and a romantic ruined abbey
Find out more about the famous Bard.
29 locals recommend
Robert Burns House
Burns Street
29 locals recommend
Find out more about the famous Bard.
A great museum which has a camera obscura attached.
26 locals recommend
Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura
Rotchell Road
26 locals recommend
A great museum which has a camera obscura attached.
The only triangular castle in the land. You have a walk around this ruin and it is next door to the wetland and wildlife trust.
48 locals recommend
Caerlaverock Castle
48 locals recommend
The only triangular castle in the land. You have a walk around this ruin and it is next door to the wetland and wildlife trust.
Spectacular numbers of birds visit this area. Badger watching by night is also sometimes available. Next door is Caerlaverock castle.
18 locals recommend
WWT Caerlaverock
18 locals recommend
Spectacular numbers of birds visit this area. Badger watching by night is also sometimes available. Next door is Caerlaverock castle.
Nice walks and good cafe for lunch.
32 locals recommend
Threave Garden
32 locals recommend
Nice walks and good cafe for lunch.
This has recently moved into a purpose built building. A good insight into the struggles faced by Britain during WWII.
23 locals recommend
The Devil's Porridge Museum
Annan Road
23 locals recommend
This has recently moved into a purpose built building. A good insight into the struggles faced by Britain during WWII.
A large (very large) country house more than a castle as such. Some lovely walks in the grounds as well.
72 locals recommend
Drumlanrig Castle
72 locals recommend
A large (very large) country house more than a castle as such. Some lovely walks in the grounds as well.
Visit the Creetown Gem Rock Museum. Fantastic collection of gems and rocks and a nice cafe for lunch.
Creetown
Visit the Creetown Gem Rock Museum. Fantastic collection of gems and rocks and a nice cafe for lunch.
Well if the urge takes you, get married there! Next door is the Gretna Gateway retail outlet.
18 locals recommend
Gretna Green Famous Blacksmiths Shop
18 locals recommend
Well if the urge takes you, get married there! Next door is the Gretna Gateway retail outlet.

Everything Else

If you like mountain biking, the 7 Stanes is for you.
17 locals recommend
7stanes - Dalbeattie
A710
17 locals recommend
If you like mountain biking, the 7 Stanes is for you.
The local football team.
Queen of the South Football Club
76-94 Terregles St
The local football team.
Heaven for mountain bikers and walkers alike.
22 locals recommend
7stanes - Mabie
22 locals recommend
Heaven for mountain bikers and walkers alike.
Off the Queens way, this unmade road is a nice drive through the forest and halfway along is the Otter pool. Its good to ride a bike down as well. Watch out the midges don't get you!
Raiders Road
Raiders Road
Off the Queens way, this unmade road is a nice drive through the forest and halfway along is the Otter pool. Its good to ride a bike down as well. Watch out the midges don't get you!

Arts & Culture

This is a huge landscape art installation covering 55 acres. Loads of standing stones and interpretation of a multiverse. It makes for an interesting day out.
13 locals recommend
Crawick Multiverse
13 locals recommend
This is a huge landscape art installation covering 55 acres. Loads of standing stones and interpretation of a multiverse. It makes for an interesting day out.

Shopping

This is a large store that sells just about everything and it is open 24 hours.
8 locals recommend
Tesco Extra
Glasgow Road
8 locals recommend
This is a large store that sells just about everything and it is open 24 hours.

Drinks & Nightlife

A great pub full of locals. I have always been made welcome here.
Spread Eagle Inn
5 Galloway St
A great pub full of locals. I have always been made welcome here.
Eclectic collection of stuff in the pub and spectacular views towards the lake district. This pub is right by the beach.
14 locals recommend
The Steamboat Inn
14 locals recommend
Eclectic collection of stuff in the pub and spectacular views towards the lake district. This pub is right by the beach.