La Cucina - Fife

After a dreadful meal at Fairmont’s Kittock’s Den we approached La Cucina with some trepidation. But despite a limited Italian style menu we had a very nice meal, helped by some really good serving staff and an accommodating kitchen. Food is good, tasty and what we’d wanted. We thought it wasn’t too pricey and for a warming meal in the depths of winter pretty much hit the spot, even if the colour scheme sucks the life out of the place and the tables and chairs are pretty basic. So yes, pretty good and very much better than it’s in house hotel sister restaurant.

Probably the worst Lasagne I have ever tasted, it was bland, tasteless and the pasta was not good quality. The white sauce béchamel) was not at all cheesy, it was very floury not cooked) it did have cheese on top, little to no meat for the sauce, mainly tomato and totally tasteless. My husband had rigatoni bolognese, which was dry, little meat and tasteless. My friend had penne in pesto, which was just pasta floating in oil, it looked very unappetising, one of our meals was fine. We had to ask for parmesan and when it came the girl serving us did not seem to be able to realise that there was nothing coming from the grater we had to point it out to her and she had to go and get more cheese! The best bit of the meal was the Antipasto plate we shared, which required NO chef skills. I am so unimpressed, this is supposed to be a quality restaurant in a 5 star hotel. I would not recommend eating here. I have an Italian background and there is nothing about this tasteless food which is Italian. Last week we had dinner in a high street Italian restaurant which would put this restaurant to shame. Fairmont you can do better.

As a family of 10 it was so lovely to be provided a private table. The staff were lovely. Mixed reviews about our food 7 positive 3 negative so a mixed bag. We had sharers for starter and a mixture of pasta and pizza for...

Another great stay in Fairmont hotel in St.Andrews! every time I find new reasons to come back again. I tried La cucina restaurant for the first time and WOW is all I can say, from the cosy atmosphere, to a very welcoming team and of...

We arrived later than expected on a Friday night, so decided to eat in the hotel. The restaurant was not too busy, so managed to get a table fine. The staff were friendly and our food did not take long to arrive.The seafood pizza was...