The Mustard Seed Restaurant

Attentive & friendly service, lovely food. Unfortunately a few of the wines on their drinks menu were not available.

Heerlijke lunch gehad. Keuze uit verschillende voor- en hoofdgerechten. Vlees, vis of groente.

Ristorante buonissimo super in centro an Inverness ! Prenotazione facile, consigliato

Loved the food etc but the noise was loud but I expect that was just the building acoustics. Overall we loved our experience and will return.

There was a really nice atmosphere in the restaurant, the food was excellent and the service good.

Not much to say! First class food and amazing service, as usual!!!

Service was good,starter was very tasty. The main courses of chicken was slightly dry and the rump steak was fatty and not juicy enough.

Excellent food and great service. Attention to detail and really nice atmosphere. Wine was great. Did etape lochness and this meal finished a great weekend. Highley reccomended. Thanks

It took over an hour to get our meal after we ordered and the best part of the meal was the salad. Both of our meat entrees were very tough. Will not return.

Lara was excellent Vert friendly and helpful Mustard Seed is always first class

Well priced menu with great choice, excellent food and service. Highly recommended.

Friendly greeting on arrival, staff were very attentive even tho the restaurant was full. Food was full of flavour and beautifully presented, excellent value for money, definitely visit again

Great food nice ambiance. Great view of the river. I ordered from the specials and they were amazing. My wife had the salmon and it was great.

Staff were brilliant, Food was superb just a brilliant dining experience.

Relaxed atmosphere. Attentive staff - just the right level of attention. Food was excellent.

Great food and service and excellent atmosphere. Will definitely return

The mustard seed is consistently good and always feel excellent value. First and only time being slightly disappointed. Ordered The Hake on a kedgeree which was not good, (suspect the chef hadn’t tasted it). The kedgeree needed stock and rice was slightly underdone and watery but with an odd oily afterfeel. Hoping kedgerree cooked in butter and not veg oil. Otherwise good. Would love more exciting options for children who are vegetarian. I like that there is proper food options for children (salmon and veg) in addition to the bland fried options on smaller portion menus.

Food excellent. Staff friendly,but waited over an hour for food to arrive. Restaurant busy as usual but never waited so long before.

Excellent food and service, great menu choice and fantastic atmosphere.

Really descent and everything I had hoped for, thanks also to the great staff.

The service, food and wine were 2nd to none, would highly recommend it.

Fantastic place for lunch. Everything perfect. Great food and atmosphere

Stingy starter portions for the price Tough over cooked steak Flavours/sauce too similar across multiple dishes Too many dishes served with mash Mediocre service

Greeted promptly, pate did not have enough mini oatcakes so asked for additional bread which seemed a big deal, fig and pear salad was good, the duck special was very good but the truffle mashed potatoes overwhelmed it a bit, the lemon sole was a bit fussy, but was enjoyed.

Food was excellent. Lovely warm, comfortable setting on a horrible night. However, staff could have been more knowledgeable about drinks, particularly gin selection. At times the service was overly officious and even felt that staff were passive aggressive in their approach - not the previous experience at the Mustard Seed. Maybe a bad night but didn’t feel that staff were happy in their work 🤔

We visited the Mustard Seed on our honeymoon trip to Scotland and had an excellent experience! The food, service, and atmosphere were wonderful. We do highly recommend making a reservation in advance to ensure you get a table!

Really enjoyed our lunch. It was good value for money

First visit for me. Loved it. Staff lovely and super attentive. Will definitely book again and recommend to all our friends. Thank you

10 out of 10, best meal in a long time

Had early evening menu and hummus starter was average. Steak was fatty, gristly and inedible

Starters were delicious, but didn't feel the mains were as good as on previous visits. My first taste of the seabass had a bone in it, my husband found his pork had a lot of fat on it.

Wonderful atmosphere, food, ambience and exceptional service. First time visit and certainly won't be the last! Can't wait to return, well done and thank you. Would advise booking in advance.

Having been many times over the past 20 years, I can only describe as very disappointing and not as expected. We had a disappointing experience in January but wrote it off as an off day, we all have them! Today surpassed that disappointment, really poor and disappointing experience, firstly the place was dusty and in need of a proper clean. Waitress was lovely and really polite and attentive, we ordered food and wine, wine was ok, food not so, starters passable but probs not something we would order again, mains were really poor, small piece of sea bass with inedible couscous and a 28 day matured steak which was as tough and chewy as an old pair of walking boots with accompanying poor reheated potatoes, would normally persevere but couldn't get past the first couple of bits, really disappointed. This is somewhere we would normally recommend, not sure what's gone wrong but the Mustard Seed has changed and we can no longer recommend this local Inverness restaurant. This experience was on gift vouchers from a friend hoping we would have a special meal/experience, we didn't :-(

Had a lovely meal with excellent food. Only criticism was that where we were sitting meant we were cold until the door was finally closed.

Brilliant food and service A++++ will be booking again soon

The staff are very attentive and polite. Greeted and seated as I had a booking - ahead of those without. I booked on Monday for this Friday. There was limited availability for a Friday evening- 15:30, 17:30 or 21:30. I opted for the early evening slot of 17:30. It then surprised me to see at least four walk-in’s offered tables with no hesitation- especially with the limited availability option for pre-booking . I was seated downstairs but next to a table housing 13 who arrived for 18:00. This meant I knew it would become noisy. l found it not very polite of the guests to be using my table to manoeuvre themselves onto their table as I was eating. Anyway… back to the food. On arrival at my table I was immediately presented with a food, drink and cocktail menu. The young lady who served me was very polite attentive and I advised her of my food allergy. Almost all meals can be made gluten free . Great. I ordered a glass of wine and water which was only a couple of minutes getting to me. The mussels as the starter came very quickly- a huge bowl full. Fresh in the creamy garlicky sauce. Perfect. The large table next to arrived and the whole atmosphere changed (see above). This meant I was left feeling rushed. My main arrived very quickly - however it was obviously the table being seated was disrupting the waitress from being able to get to place my meal down. I had to take it off her mid air and felt sorry that she was as rushed as she was. I ordered the Gressingham duck. It tender and juicy - cooked medium rare, but slightly under seasoned . The broccoli was cooked perfectly, and the truffle mash was delicate and light- full of flavour. The jus was non- existent and there was more of a thick gravy on it- I just hope it was gluten free. The pear was firm yet lacked flavour. As the large seated table now seemed to take priority, no checked on me to see if my main course was ok or if I needed anything. Being a solo eater, it seemed that priority of the large party was given by waiting staff. As soon as I was finished eating my main, my plate was whipped from under me and a dessert menu given. I was about to ask which items were gf but the waitress that bought the menu over had already left the table prior to me getting a word out. I decided against dessert and coffee. I was in the restaurant 38 minutes start to finish. I on now it states it’s not an ‘all night table’ and that’s fine but 38 minutes in a mid-high end restaurant - that is not acceptable. It’s a shame because the food was good but the service went downhill. Clearly not all customers are treated equally. A 6/10 from me.

Nice place. We were accommodated to shift our booking to earlier- that was nice. Food was good as was the bread. Sadly the poached egg was more boiled than poached. The sticky toffee pudding was so dry that I had to ask for more sauce to be able to eat it. It felt as the pudding was stale. When we asked for the bill first time the request was acknowledged by the waitress but she did ot bring it for a while so we asked again. She replied I heard you the first time and returned with the bill and slammed it on our table. Once again this was not followed up with actually coming back with the card machine. We then asked another to pay the bill. Sadly good food was ruined by bad service.

Super personnel très sympathique Très bon et copieux À recommander

The staff was great. Food was good. Able to be seated early.

Excellent experience. Will return soon again. Couldn't fault it at all.

Very enjoyable dinner with family. Staff were friendly and professional. The food was great.

Always a great experience, good food and atmosphere all for a reasonable price.

Friendly staff and lovely venue. I would recommend - wine great!

The Caprese and Venison dishes were excellent, but I was a bit disappointed in the sticky toffee pudding, which I found “heavier” than expected.

Lovely food and service right by the river , wasn’t allowed to sit in. The balcony to have lunch which was a shame

Meal was good, but a loud atmosphere and average service. The sauces and desserts were also a bit too sweet for our taste.

Our party of 6 enjoyed each of our dishes - thank u !

Great location and interior, nice staff, food was not that great.

Both meals were great thank you for a great time

Friendly, efficient staff. Good food, nicely presented. Overall enjoyable experience.