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Hollywood star Alan Cumming delights Inverness restaurant owners with unexpected visit

The Scottish actor visited an Asian restaurant with friends.

Alan Cumming dined at an Inverness restaurant.
Alan Cumming pictured in Hou Hou Mei after dining at the Inverness restaurant. Image: Hou Hou Mei.

Hollywood star Alan Cumming has left restaurant owners delighted after a surprise visit.

While back on his home turf, the actor visited Hou Hou Mei in Inverness for a bite to eat with friends on Friday night.

Cumming, 58, is known for starring in blockbusters such as Spy Kids, Instinct and Goldeneye.

Most recently, he was presenter of smash hit TV show The Traitors.

And the Scottish actor, born in Aberfeldy in Perthshire, often visits his home country.

It was just last year that he brought his new show Burn to Aberdeen’s His Majesty’s Theatre and Eden Court in Inverness.

‘What a pleasure it was to have legendary Alan Cumming’

Owners at Hou Hou Mei, an Asian restaurant on Tomnahurich Street, took to social media to share news of their famous guest.

They said: “What a pleasure it was to have the legendary @alancummingreally and his friends join us for dinner last night.

“Thank you for dining at Hou Hou Mei.”

Hou Hou Mei restaurant.
Hou Hou Mei. Image: Jason Hedges/DC Thomson

Fans of the restaurant were quick to comment on the star’s “good taste” as one person wrote “he clearly knows good food.”

Another reminisced on the actor’s childhood by writing: “Alan’s granny lived in Inverness.

“He spent quite a bit of time here when he was growing up. He recalls walking over the ‘bouncy bridge’, which we know as the Greig St Bridge.”

The actor visited Aberdeen last year

On a previous visit to Aberdeen, Cumming told the P&J how he “always loves travelling in Scotland.”

Alan Cumming at the re-opening of the Lemon Tree. Photo by Kath Flannery.

Burn marked the actor’s first professional return to Aberdeen in almost 15 years.

The last time he performed at His Majesty’s Theatre was back in 2008 when he toured with The Bacchae (an ancient Greek tragedy).

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