Rod Stewart is right — Scottish hospitality is the best and much better than London

Having been up to Gleneagles lately myself — not with Sir Rod, I’m not some secret love-child — he’s on the money, all 10 grand of it. The service is beyond good — and notably Scottish, too. I’ve seen it in Rothes’ Station Hotel, and at Eagle Brae in Struy. It was even there in Edinburgh’s Cafe Royal. Scottish hospitality has a particular timbre. It’s friendly rather than fawning, obliging without being obsequious. And it might be attentive, but it’s not intrusive. Have you counted the number of interruptions that come with a meal out in London these days? You’d think the service was charged by the word.