The Glover Arms

Reviews

• Qype User (Kelmei…)

  star star star star star_border 13 June 2026

  The Glover Arms is the Pub/Restaurant attached to an Innkeepers Lodge at Mart in Perth. I was very pleasantly surprised when we first visited here as I know that these sorts of places have varying reviews. The decor and layout have been well planned and although it is a new building you would have thought it was a well established pub. The open fires are a nice surprise and are lovely are welcoming in the colder months.
  
  The menu has had tweaks a couple of times in the past year, but all have been for the better. The style of food is modern pub grub and the quality is really good. We regularly have the rump steak which is reasonably priced and the plate is full, so very good value for money. The kids menu is available from the bar and again offers a good choice at reasonable prices.
  
  The difference I have found here is that you have to order at the bar, however you don't pay to the end of the meal so I have no real issue to doing this. It means that the waiting staff have more time to serve the food and do what they do best, being friendly and attentive.
  
  Weekends do tend to be very busy and they don't take table bookings in advance so best to arrive sharp for your meal.

• Tim B.

  star star star star star 12 June 2026

  I've been here two or three times.  The food is always good and the staff treat me as if I might be a be hotel inspector working under cover!  So I'm very happy to give this an unequivocal recommendation.

• Alan S.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 10 June 2026

  Ooft.. where to start?? Overpriced, under-staffed, under-cooked non-excuse for a pub/restaurant. I've heard only mediocre-at-best things about the Vintage Inn chain, and the Glover Arms did nothing at all to help this reputation.
  
  Having attended a nearby event, we came here in a party of 8 very hungry folks. We chose here because it was close to where we were; meaning we could be fed far quicker than heading into the centre of Perth or beyond. It was very busy, but a big place, and the menu was more expensive than we had expected, but we took these as good signs of a hearty meal, and made a conscious decision that waiting the half-hour we were promised for a table would still be better than travelling elsewhere. How wrong we were.
  
  15 minutes after our 30-minute wait was up, the staff realised they could move a handful of non-eaters from an 8-person eating table, and we finally were seated in their place. We had been staring at the menu for 45mins but were still left before we could actually place our order; the usual "can I get you any drinks?" routine taking a further 10 minutes.
  
  Some of our starters didn't take much time at all to appear. Others however sat by the kitchen until we pointed them out. All soups, these were at best lukewarm by the time we were served them. Then began the agonising wait for main courses; a good 20 to 30 mins. By this time, most of us had wished we'd ordered twice as much as our appetites further developed in the 90 minutes it took from entering the premises to getting our mains. Then it arrived. Mostly cold, some of it wrong, none of it up to the price we paid or the time we waited.
  
  My onion rings were in cold batter and grease. My peas were barely warmer than they would have been in the packet they came frozen in; utterly inedible. The fries were rubbish, salty, and cold. The medium-rare steak I ordered came out well done. My wife's medium steak came out rare, and her "béarnaise sauce" translated as "chunky fries", which were also pretty cold. Most of us were too hungry or annoyed to care any more, so we ate what we could, still hungry at the end. One member of our party complained that her fish was too cold to eat - and they did take that off our bill, at least. But they didn't feed us properly for the £100 bill we paid at the end.
  
  The thing is, there *are* positives - my breaded mushrooms starter was good, the steak and mushroom sauce was still fairly tasty, the soup was good but would have been better warm. The place was large and busy and there were lots of friendly waiting staff around - but they did a lot of, well, waiting. I would not be at all surprised if there was one poor sod in the kitchen trying desperately to make an 8-person order come out ready at the same time. I do not doubt that the Glover Arms could be a decent venue for a Sunday lunch if more people involved just *tried* a bit harder. Until then, though, you'd be as well finding a Brewer's Fayre or something to spend your money on quick chain-pub food, because this Vintage Inn is neither quick nor good enough.

• Pamela R.

  star star star star star 31 May 2026

  We recently worked with Caroline for a small pre-wedding event for our daughter and her groom at Glover Arms and we could not have been HAPPIER! The setting was so perfectly authentic Scottish and charming.  The staff went well above and beyond and the food was  WONDERFUL!  Caroline herself attended to our group's every need.  One of the best moments for me was that not only were to say the Bride and Groom pleased Scottish in-laws were impressed as well. THANK YOU SO MUCH CAROLINE!

• Laura Kate S.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 16 May 2026

  Nope. Not as nice as it looks.
  
  We arrived at 6:15pm on a Sunday and were told it would be about 30 minutes to seat our party (of 8). About 40 minutes later as no one had come back to us at all, after a member of our party asked again about a table (as other fairly large groups were being seated), they found us a table.
  
  Half an hour for drinks and appetisers to arrive. Half the starters were cold. To be fair, my brie was nice.  Then the wait for the main courses. The WAIT. We waited and waited and waited and waited nearly another hour. No one stopped over to apologise for the delay or explain what was happening. Nothing. We were so hungry and getting quite annoyed.  When the food finally did arrive  - and not nearly all at once, there were issues.  Half the people had gotten fish & chips. The chips seemed stodgy and not fresh, the peas were cold & hard, and one fish was so bad it couldn't be finished. One person got a burger which was a bit cold and suffered the same issue of icky chips. 2 of us got steak. I'd ordered mine medium and with a bearnaise sauce. Instead of sauce, my steak arrived with chunky chips (which were also an add-on option like the sauce). At this point, I didn't even try to get the sauce as things were going so terribly. My husband had ordered his steak medium rare and got it well-done (though his mushroom sauce was nice).
  
  Basically everything just went wrong. The pub did take the one fish & chips off the bill, but none of us were pleased with our meals and by the time we left we were all still hungry! I'll be avoiding The Glover Arms in the future.