Accolades & Honours
Accolades
AA Inspector's Choice, Five Red Star Hotel since 2006
VisitScotland 5 Gold Star Hotel since 2005
Forbes Travel Guide Four Star Rating for 2023
Michelin Guide One Key 2024
Best Hotel in Scotland - The Good Hotel Guide 2025
Scotland's Best Hotel, VisitScotland Thistle Awards 2015
The Robb Report, World's Top 100 Hotels
TripAdvisor Traveller's Choice Awards 2016
Best 101 Hotels in the World, Tatler Abercrombie & Kent Travel Guide
AA 2 Rosettes for Rhubarb at Prestonfield since 2005
The AA Wine Award for Scotland
World of Fine Wine, Wine List Awards 2014 – 2016
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence 2003 - 2015
James Thomson OBE DL MI
Awarded OBE for service to Hospitality and Scottish Tourism June 2005
Outstanding Contribution to the Industry" Independent Hotel Show 2024
Master Innholder and Fellow of Institute of Hospitality 2024
Commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh in 2018
Fellowship of the MasterChefs of Great Britain
Gold Award from the Association of Colleges at the House of Commons for his support of students at Edinburgh's Telford College
Catey Awards, Independent Restauranteur of the Year 2009
Scottish Silver Thistle Award 2004 - Visit Scotland
Honorary Citizen of Texas" by the Governor of Texas
Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Hospitality Industry Trust in 2002.
Honorary Doctorate of the University from Edinburgh Napier University in 2006.
Installed as a ‘Chevalier, La Commanderie de Montmartre’ and ‘Defender of the Auld Alliance’ in 2011.
Installed as a ‘Chevalier du Tastevin, Confrerie de Chevaliers du Tastevin, Clos du Vougeot, Burgundy in 2001.
