The Tweedside Kitchen dining room in late-afternoon sun: bentwood chairs around small tables, trailing plants on warm oak panelling and long shadows across the floor.

Riverside café & restaurantKelsoEst. 2016

Honest Borders cooking, on the banks of the Tweed.

A warm, sunlit kitchen serving fresh daily bakes, seasonal plates and slow-roasted comfort — five minutes’ walk from Kelso Abbey, with a terrace made for long lunches.

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Open Tuesday to Sunday from 8:30am · Saturday suppers until 9pm

Locally sourced
Baked fresh daily
Riverside terrace
Dogs welcome

A long, glass-walled dining room glowing under paper lantern pendants, with oak tables, rush-seat chairs and a few diners by the windows. — i. The long room, where the old stable used to be.

Our story

A kitchen shaped by the river & the seasons

The Tweedside Kitchen began as a two-table bakery counter in 2016, tucked into a converted stable behind Kelso’s Knowes. Nearly a decade on, we’re still doing the same thing: baking each morning before sunrise, buying what the Borders’ farms and rivers give us, and cooking it simply enough that the ingredients do the talking.

Our dining room looks straight over the water to the old bridge, and on fair mornings the terrace fills first — dogs under the tables, walkers off the Tweed path, and regulars who’ve had the same order since we opened.

— Fiona & the kitchen team

Years on the Tweed: 9
Scratch-baked daily: 100%
Average supplier distance: 18mi

Mornings Until 11:30am

Poached eggs on sourdough£9.50
Crushed avocado, chilli oil, toasted seeds
Buttermilk waffles£8.25
Whipped cream, blueberries, icing sugar

To start

Tweed smoked trout, soda bread£8.50
Horseradish crème fraîche, pickled cucumber
Roast Borders pumpkin soup£6.50
Toasted seeds, brown butter, sourdough
Whipped goat’s cheese, honeycomb£7.75
Walnut, thyme, oatcakes

Mains

Slow-braised Borders beef£17.50
Root mash, kale, red wine jus
Pan-seared river trout£16.00
Crushed new potatoes, brown shrimp butter
Wild mushroom & barley risotto£14.50
Aged cheddar, hazelnut, sage oil (v)
Kitchen soup & sandwich£10.90
Daily soup, half sandwich, side salad

Cakes & bakes

Sticky toffee pudding£6.25
Butterscotch sauce, clotted cream
Lemon & Borders honey cake£4.50
Baked fresh each morning
Dark chocolate & sea salt tart£5.75
Whipped cream
Fruit scone, cream & jam£4.25
Out of the oven before we open

To drink

Flat white / Americano£3.30
Locally roasted beans
Borders breakfast tea£2.90
Pot for one or two
House elderflower spritz£4.20
Non-alcoholic

A little look inside

From the kitchen & the terrace

Our dining room, our bakes, and the view we get to keep.

Pink oleander in the foreground with a waterside terrace, low stone bridge and leafy hillside softly out of focus behind. — **The terrace**Tables right on the water’s edge.

Three golden fruit scones stacked on a cooling rack beside a pot of cream and a folded white linen cloth. — **Morning scones**Out of the oven before the doors open.

A bright café counter with woven rattan pendant lights, tall palms, bentwood chairs and a row of pale wooden bar stools. — **The counter**Where the day’s bakes line up.

Buttermilk waffles topped with whipped cream and fresh blueberries on a grey stoneware plate. — **Waffles**A weekend favourite.

A speckled bowl of roast vegetables topped with two fried eggs, next to a green cup of coffee. — **Brunch**Eggs, roots, strong coffee.

A narrow country lane between drystone walls leading down into a green Borders valley, with rolling hills under an evening sky. — **The road in**The Borders hills beyond Kelso.

A single fruit scone on a white plate with a ramekin of clotted cream and a small jar of strawberry jam. — **Scone & jam**Cream first, naturally.

What people say

Booked the terrace for my mother’s 70th. They remembered her tea order from a booking six months earlier. That’s the whole place, really.

Aisha K.Celebrated a birthday here

“The soup and sandwich on a wet Tuesday, sat right by the window over the river — it’s become our whole family’s Sunday habit.”

Margaret H.Kelso local

“Stopped in off the Tweed walk with muddy boots and a dog — nobody blinked. The trout was the best I’ve had in the Borders.”

Callum R.Walking holiday, Peebles

An old arched stone bridge crossing a clear, fast-flowing river between bright green fields and spring woodland. — iii. The Tweed path, a short stroll from our door.

Find us

Visit us on the riverbank

Two minutes from the town square, right on the water. Muddy boots and well-behaved dogs are always welcome.

Opening hours
Monday	Closed
Tuesday – Friday	8:30am – 4:30pm
Saturday	9:00am – 9:00pm
Sunday	9:00am – 3:00pm

Address

The Tweedside Kitchen
14 The Knowes, Kelso
Scottish Borders, TD5 7BH

Contact

01573 555 214
hello@tweedsidekitchen.example

Sample contact details for this concept demo — not a working phone line.

Reserve your table

Book a table by the water

Tell us when you’d like to visit and we’ll hold your table by the window. Prefer to talk? Give us a ring.

01573 555 214