But N' Ben - Angus

Vey welcoming and very scenic spot. Delicious homecooked food. High tea on Sunday, was superb. Friendly helpful service. Would definitely highly recommend.

We came for my dads birthday, the food was lovely and the service was good. Althoough I did order a chocolate fudge cake and when it arrived it had lots of cherries in it which I obviously didn't know would be in it as it...wasn't mentioned. The bill ended up being an awful lot more than we were expecting. We all try to guess the bill after going out for a meal and we are usually all pretty close, but we were all about off this bill, we did not expect it to be so expensive.

Had a wonderful evening at The But n Ben, we were staying locally for a friends birthday, great atmosphere and great food, service and banter were fantastic! Would definitely revisit!

The food was undoubtedly great and most of the staff were lovely. I had the arbroath smokie pancake and it was delicious and completely bone-free. My husband had the fish in oatmeal which was also very tasty. The menu was really interesting and varied with...plenty of fish dishes and local dishes including mince and skirlie and the space itself is lovely and cosy. Our issue was with the passive aggressive way the older waitress/owner drew our attention to the fact that we were breaking her rules because we had left our face masks lying on our table. She physically reached right across us to the far side of our table and said “let me just move this”, moved a vase of flowers to one side and waited. We were bemused. She watched and said nothing. And then we read the sign which had been hidden by the vase which said something like “please do not leave your face mask lying on the table”. Fair enough. We hadn’t seen the sign but the way she drew our attention to it was poor. In my view, we were at far more risk from being so very close to the coughing man at the incredibly close next table! Very very weird way of dealing with it, especially as she then directed us (like she was our primary school teacher) to put the masks away in our pockets. The whole exchange just left us feeling uncomfortable and unwelcome. Not sure If we’d go back but at least we’d be ready for her next time!

Having never been to Arbroath and only being up for a night this place really stood out to me so we decided to go. We were NOT disappointed. Smokies and a smokie soup for starters then a huge big platter the entire platter in...my photo and the chips etc was only something like Excellent value and it was entirely delicious. We will be back if we are ever nearby again :