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👩‍🍳 Husband + wife team
🏡 Tiny team. 100% heart. 80% local
🌟 100 Best Local UK Restaurants 2024 & 2025 by The Good Food Guide
🪴Kitchen Garden
🥄 Chef Bryn cooks it all |Oxana hosts & bakes | Sir Thomas is the star!

31/10/2026

A lovely problem to have – fully booked this Saturday evening!

We can, however, squeeze in two more tables in the bar, each seating up to four guests. The same menu, with the fire roaring in the bar. Please email us with your party size and telephone number if you’d like to join us.

Sunday lunch: just one table remaining!

Meanwhile, here’s Bryn with a rather magnificent Selkirk Bannock bread and butter pudding, fresh from the oven.

Thank you to our wonderful guests for keeping us so delightfully busy! ❤️

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30/10/2026

🏅 FOUR GOLDS! And finally, they’re on display! 🏅

Our frames have arrived, and our four Gold awards from the World Jam Festival 2026 have finally found their place at THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms (The Gordon Arms Restaurant with Rooms)!

We still can’t quite believe it. Four entries, four Golds! 🥇🥇🥇🥇

🍓 Strawberry
💛 Yellow Plum
🫐 Blackcurrant
🍃 Gooseberry

For anyone wondering, varenye is a traditional Eastern European fruit preserve made with whole fruits or berries, much less sugar than ordinary jam, no pectin or lemon juice, and just five minutes of boiling!

And the lucky ones who get to taste it? Our overnight guests, at breakfast! We’re not selling it just yet… perhaps next year. 😉

🍂 Meanwhile, the Yarrow Valley is looking glorious in its autumn colours!

Why not come for Bryn’s cooking, stay the night and wake up to our award-winning varenye?

From Gourmet Escapes and Dinner, Bed & Breakfast to a simple overnight stay, the choice is yours!

Book at www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

Maximum flavour. Minimum fuss. And four Golds! 💛

World Jam Festival

29/10/2026

Who loves a crumble? We certainly do! 🍏 🍎🫐🥄

Bryn’s crumble is just out of the oven, with apples kindly given to us by our wonderful neighbours in Yarrow (The Scullery | Boutique Holiday Cottage | Scottish Borders ❤️) and lovely loyal guests from Selkirk❤️, plus berries from our own garden (tucked away in the freezer for days like this). It doesn’t get much more local than that!

How lucky we are to have such thoughtful guests and neighbours. ❤️

Oxana has already had a dangerously generous portion with cream for breakfast. Purely for quality control, you understand… 😄🙈

Open for lunch and dinner today. Come hungry — and leave room for crumble!

🔗www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms, Yarrow Valley, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, TD7 5LE, UK

27/10/2026

A little something smoky has joined our cheeseboard! 🧀

Meet Oak Smoked Gubbeen — a beautifully crafted farmhouse cheese from County Cork, Ireland.

Rich, creamy and gently smoky. Just the thing for those who believe a good meal deserves a proper cheese course! 😉

Now on our cheeseboard at THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms.

📍 Yarrow Valley, Scottish Borders

26/10/2026

**UPDATE**: 🎉 HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY! 🎉

We’re back home and OUR INTERNET AND PHONE SERVICES ARE FINALLY RESTORED! 📞📶🥳

Our little world went slightly mad for 24 hours, but we’re finally back in the 21st century! 😂

We can now see all your bookings, emails and messages and will be catching up with everyone as soon as possible.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who worked so hard to get us reconnected! ❤️🙏

What a relief! 🥂❤️

17:30, Monday, 26th October
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🌳 AFTER THE STORM… CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD!

Well, what a Sunday in the Yarrow Valley! 🌪️

Fallen trees, blocked roads, some damage to our property and, to top it all off, no internet, no landline and no mobile signal. Absolutely nothing!

First of all, our sincere apologies to everyone who tried to contact us yesterday or today. Please don’t think we’ve suddenly forgotten our manners! 😂 We simply had no way of communicating with the outside world!

We’re now on our way to Edinburgh, where we’ve finally found a signal and discovered a mountain of missed calls, emails and messages. We’re doing our very best to catch up!

🙏 A huge thank you to the emergency crews working hard to restore services (BT / O2 UK / Scottish Government ). Fingers crossed for today-tomorrow!

A little favour to our neighbours in the Yarrow Valley and beyond: If you’ve also been cut off, could you please send us a message here if your phone or internet service has been restored? We’d be incredibly grateful! ❤️

And if we’re still not answering today or tomorrow, please bear with us – it means we’re still living in the 19th century! 😂

Our online booking systems are working as normal.

Most importantly, we hope everyone is safe and well!

With love from the Yarrow Valley,

Bryn & Oxana & our wonderful Team❤️

🔗www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms, Yarrow Valley, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, TD7 5LE, UK

20/10/2026

A little black magic from Bryn’s kitchen! 🖤

Charcoal pasta, beautiful Shetland scallops and a rather striking combination of colours and flavours.

Who said autumn had to be dull? 😉

🍽️ On the menu this week!

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms, Yarrow Valley, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, TD7 5LE, UK

🕰️ Lunch & dinner Thursday–Saturday | Sunday lunch

🔗 Book your table via our website: www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk (the link in our bio.)

16/10/2026

Think pink! 🩷

Our kitchen garden here in the Scottish Borders, just 10 steps from the kitchen(!) is still producing wonderful vegetables in the middle of October!

And Bryn’s latest seasonal creation? Heritage beetroot ravioli with Elrick Log goat’s cheese and beetroot sauce.

We grow beetroot in all sorts of beautiful colours, but somehow pink always wins! 😂🩷

Maximum flavour. Minimum fuss™️

🔗www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms, Yarrow Valley, Selkirk, Scottish Borders, TD7 5LE, UK

The Good Food Guide

16/10/2026

🌸 Sweet peas in the middle of October? We can hardly believe it! 💜

Our kitchen garden sweet peas (and other flowers!) are still flowering, with new buds appearing every day! They’re looking a little tired now, but after such a wonderful season, who can blame them?

We love our naturally grown flowers, with no pesticides or chemicals. They don’t last forever, and that’s part of their charm.

So this weekend at THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms, we’re celebrating what might be their final flourish! Sweet peas everywhere — in the restaurant, bar, bedrooms and even the gents’ loos! 🌸

One gentleman once thanked us for putting fresh flowers in there: “We men appreciate beautiful things too, you know!” 😂 And quite right!

Fancy coming to admire them before they disappear?

🌸 Tonight and Saturday — a couple of restaurant tables available.

🛏️ Saturday — just two rooms remaining.

🍽️ Sunday lunch — Bryn’s roast beef is on the menu!

Come for the food, stay for the flowers. We can’t promise the sweet peas will last another week! 💜

www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

29/09/2026

**UPDATE!!!**🥇🥇🥇🥇

Oh my goodness — FOUR GOLDS!!! 🤩
We’ve just received the news that my Blackcurrant Varenye has also won GOLD, in the Homegrown or Foraged category!

So what started as three Golds has suddenly become FOUR! I genuinely cannot quite believe it. ❤️

What an incredible early birthday present! 🎁 🥂
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WOW. What a birthday present — and my birthday isn’t even until tomorrow! 🥹🥂🥇🥇🥇💃🏆💐

I still can’t quite believe this…🙃

I entered four jars of my homemade varenye into the World Jam Festival — and came home a TRIPLE GOLD WINNER! 🥇🥇🥇

🍓 Strawberry — GOLD
💛 Yellow Plum — GOLD
💚 Gooseberry — GOLD

And my Blackcurrant Varenye is a FINALIST in the Homegrown or Foraged category! 🖤

For years, friends and guests have told me: “Oxana, you have to enter these into a competition!” I never did. Then our wonderfully talented and multi-award winner neighbour Ena (Ena Mitchell) told me about the World Jam Festival… and finally, four years later, I thought: why not?!

It was all ridiculously last-minute. We found the jars, quickly made the labels, discovered that four jars fitted perfectly into an old wooden Port box 😂 — and drove 3½ hours to Newby Hall (Newby Hall & Gardens ) with them. 😂

Varenye is something very close to my heart: whole fruit, very little sugar, cooked for just five minutes — no pectin, no lemon, nothing else. A family recipe and tradition going back more than 100 years.

And the funniest part? This was the first year I had EVER made gooseberry varenye. We had beautiful gooseberries from our kitchen garden and simply followed my instinct. And it won GOLD. 🥹

All three Golds received 30/30 — 10/10 for taste, 10/10 for set and 10/10 for presentation.

I’m absolutely over the moon. 🤗🙃

Thank you to everyone who kept telling me to do this. Thank you to the judges. And thank you to our little kitchen garden. ❤️

What an unbelievable birthday present. 🥇🥇🥇

World Jam Festival

26/09/2026

FROM OUR APPLE TREE TO YOUR SUNDAY LUNCH 🍏

Some apples are made for eating straight from the tree.

Ours most definitely are not. 😂

They’re wonderfully sharp — but cook them down and they make the most beautiful apple sauce. And tomorrow, that’s exactly where they’re going.

Sunday Lunch tomorrow:
Rare-breed Oxford Sandy and Black roast pork, proper roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, rich gravy, plenty of crackling — and our own apple sauce, made from apples picked from the tree just outside.

It doesn’t get much more local than that. 🍎

Come hungry.

📍THE GORDON ARMS Restaurant with Rooms
Yarrow Valley, Scottish Borders

Book online for tomorrow’s Sunday lunch: 🔗www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk

Maximum flavour. Minimum fuss.

Address

Selkirk
TD75LE

Opening Hours

Thursday	12pm - 3pm
	5pm - 10pm
Friday	12pm - 3pm
	5pm - 10pm
Saturday	12pm - 3pm
	5pm - 10pm
Sunday	12pm - 3pm

Telephone

+44175082261

Website

http://www.gordonarmsyarrow.co.uk/

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