Scotland’s last five Beefeaters were Centre and Gourdie Croft in Dundee, Deer Park in Livingston, Hamilton and Lady Nairne in Edinburgh. They reached the chain’s final closure in September 2026, but their buildings had quite different beginnings. A waterside hotel restaurant, an older local pub and a new town-centre development should not be given one interchangeable history.
Dundee needs particular care because it had two final venues. Centre was at Discovery Quay, while Gourdie Croft was on Kingsway West. A memory of a meal beside the Tay belongs to a different address from one near the Invergowrie roundabout. The list below keeps both names separate and links to their individual photographs, addresses and stories.
What happened in Scotland?
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- Hotel guests only
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- Converted or redeveloped
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Photographs from Scotland
Three local stories
Hamilton, Hamilton
Hamilton shows how recently the chain was still opening restaurants. The town-centre Beefeater was built with a ninety-six-bedroom Premier Inn in a £7 million development completed by Ogilvie Construction in early 2021. The site had previously held the Hamilton Town Hotel, which became derelict and was destroyed by fire in 2018. This was a new hotel-and-restaurant chapter on an older hotel address, not a historic inn simply receiving a Beefeater sign. Its short life within the chain sits alongside the much older surroundings of Lady Nairne, giving the Scottish list two very different kinds of building history.
Lady Nairne, Edinburgh
Lady Nairne’s name leads away from the restaurant menu and into Scottish songwriting. Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, lived after her marriage at Caroline Cottage in Duddingston; her son was born there in 1808. The Gazetteer for Scotland places the later Lady Nairne steakhouse beside that former home. For a remembered meal on Willowbrae Road, the pub name therefore preserves a local connection that predates Whitbread’s chain. It also helps distinguish this Edinburgh restaurant, beside Premier Inn Edinburgh East, from Scottish Beefeaters in entirely new developments. The restaurant’s Beefeater history and the songwriter’s life are linked by the place and name.
Deer Park, Livingston
Livingston’s Deer Park brought together a pub restaurant and Premier Inn on Deer Park Avenue in Knightsridge, close to the M8’s junction 3. CAMRA describes a garden and early breakfast service, with activity material and balloons for children. Those details fit the family-table memories this archive collects: the things handed to a child can be as recognisable as the building itself. Deer Park was one of the final five Scottish Beefeaters, rather than an earlier conversion such as Inverness’s Loch Ness House. Its page keeps the pub’s facilities and historical service separate from any future dining arrangements at the adjoining hotel.
Every final Beefeater in Scotland
Help find photographs of the missing venues →
- Centre, Dundee — No news yet · DD1 4XA
- Deer Park, Livingston — No news yet · EH54 8AD
- Gourdie Croft, Dundee — No news yet · DD2 5JU
- Hamilton, Hamilton — No news yet · ML3 7BL
- Lady Nairne, Edinburgh — No news yet · EH8 7NG
Earlier Beefeaters in Scotland
The Dovecote, Cumbernauld
The former Beefeater at 4 South Muirhead Road, G67 1AX, is now associated with Premier Inn’s own restaurant. The old restaurant link redirects to Premier Inn. The Beefeater closure date is not confirmed.
Falkirk Herald directory ↗ · Premier Inn, Glasgow Cumbernauld ↗ ·
Black Bear
The former Beefeater on Hamilton Road, Broomhouse, beside Premier Inn Glasgow East, reopened as a Wetherspoon in December 2025. Dram Scotland reported a £1m investment. Its accompanying picture is not used to identify the pub.
Loch Ness House
The Glenurquhart Road Beefeater in Inverness became a restaurant for Premier Inn guests only from 5 July 2024.
Beefeater Stirling
The Forthside Way restaurant, FK8 1QZ, moved to resident-only service in July 2024. CAMRA’s long-term closure record gives 31 July; that record does not confirm a later public reopening.
Castle
The Greenlaw restaurant on Crookfur Road, Newton Mearns, G77 6NP, was listed as long-term closed in a July 2024 CAMRA update.