Contrast Brasserie - Inverness

Excellent service and food. No rush, enjoyed a very relaxed lunch.

We absolutely love this brasserie for lunch or dinner. Have visited a few times now with many more bookings planned. Good for small groups, two people or a catch up with a few friends. Amazing menu, staff and service.

With possibly great ingredients being used the chefs seem to overcomplicate dishes with an abundance of other flavours which are not well balanced and quite frankly overpower the main star of the dish. I had the scallops to start which were cooked well however the Vol au vant on the side was completely unnecessary and the filling was not particularly pleasant. My partner had the venison tartare the meat of the venison had an extremely sour taste to it rather like vinegar the curry sauce that was mixed through the noodles underneath was way too spicy for the meat there for all that you could taste was the spice. This is extremely disappointing for such a beautiful ingredient such as venison. We had the tomahawk steak sharing plate four main course Although this was cooked to the temperature requested it was unfortunate that the meat was again overpowered by the huge amounts of roasted garlic that they had clearly cooked it with. A beautiful piece of meat such as this does not need to be disguised or flavoured in such a way again very disappointing.

We went to show off to some friends who were visiting us for the weekend. We’d been before and loved the seasonal menu. The menu was different again and felt just right for the time of year. We all loved our food and thoroughly enjoyed our time there.

Service was first class. The only issue I had was with Yorkshire pudding which was very hard and difficult to cut. The rest of the meal was excellent.