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Scottish anchorages
Eating and drinking out
Here in alphabetical order of anchorage are some cafés, restaurants, hotels and pubs that I personally like - either because of the good food and drink which need not necessarily be expensive, or the location, and usually but not always the feeling that there is someone in command, ideally the owner. Plus some which I have heard have good reputations. On reflection this is an amazing list given the (very out of date) reputation that Scotland is not a place for good food. Many of the restaurants take great pride in buying local and what a great selection there is from fish to the venison, from langoustines to the raspberries.
Some other places which are further away from anchorages might be prepared to ferry you back and forwards provided you spend your money with them. Try phoning.
Achnacroish, Lismore: Lismore Café
Ardbeg, Islay: the distillery restaurant, lovely building too
Ardantrive Bay, Oban: Waypoint Bar and Grill but ? open
Ardfern, Loch Craignish: The Crafty Kitchen, Galley of Lorne for the real ale rather than the food
Ardminish Bay: Gigha Hotel, and the Boathouse Restaurant
Arinagour: Coll Hotel, highly boatie friendly, the village café
Asknish Bay, Loch Shuna: Loch Melfort Hotel
Bowmore, Islay: Harbour Inn, and the Lochside Hotel
Calgary Bay, West Mull: café in a great artistic setting
Canna: tea room/café if still open
Craighouse, Jura: the Jura Hotel
Craignure, Sound of Mull: Craignure Inn, Arlene's coffee shop
Crinan, Firth of Lorne: the café, and the Crinan Hotel
Dunstaffnage, Lower Loch Linnhe: Poppies
Eigg: Pier Café, Bar and Restaurant
Easdale, Firth of Lorne: Oyster Brewery bar and restaurant, Puffer Bar, Restaurant and Tea Room
Fearnach Bay, Loch Melfort: Shower of Herring
Fionnphort, Ninth Wave Restaurant
Fort William, Upper Loch Linnhe: Crannog, and Lime Tree
Inverie: The Old Forge
Iona: The Heritage Centre
Isle of Eriska Hotel, posh, very posh
Kentallen Bay, Lower Loch Linnhe: Holly Tree Hotel
Kilfinichen, West Mull: Tirioran House Hotel
Loch a'Choire, Lower Loch Linnhe: Boathouse Bistro
Loch Aline, Sound of Mull: Whitehouse Restaurant
Loch Leven: Seafood Café
Little Horseshoe Bay, Kerrera: Kerrera tea garden
Muck, south anchorage: craft shop and café, Gallanach Lodge
Oban: Ee-Usk, The Waterfront, Coast, Manor House Hotel, Temple Seafood Restaurant, Kitchen Garden, Bossards, Julie's, Oban Chocolate Company, The Oban Inn
Port an Dunain, Loch Leven: The Loch Leven Hotel
Port Appin, Lower Loch Linnhe: Airds Hotel, the Pierhouse
Puilladobrhain, Firth of Lorne: Tigh an Truish
Salen, Loch Sunart: Salen Hotel
Saulmore Bay, Lower Loch Linnhe: Oyster Inn
Scalasaig, Colonsay: the Colonsay Hotel, and the Pantry
South Ballachulish, Loch Leven: The Laroch
Strontian, Loch Sunart: Kilcamb Lodge Hotel
Tayvallich, Loch Sween: coffee shop, and the Tayvallich Inn
Tobermory, Sound of Mull: the Mishnish, the Chip Van, An Tobar, Café Fish
Ulva ferry, West Mull: Boathouse Café, lovely
West Loch Tarbert, Kintyre: West Loch Hotel, Starfish
A suggested gastronomic cruise to hard to get to places without a boat: the Jura Hotel to the Whitehouse Restaurant at Loch Aline to the Coll Hotel and ending with the other Boat House on Ulva. No doubt you will also divert en route to the food and drink delights of Tobermory - Café Fish in particular.
A more up market cruise north from Oban and back for the serious foodie: the Waterfront in Oban to the Pier House at Port Appin to the Loch Leven Seafood Café to Crannog at Fort William to the Lime Tree also in Fort William to Airds Hotel at Port Appin and back to Oban and Ee-Usk!
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Al fresco lunch at the Ulva Boathouse Café, Ulva
It doesn't come much better than here,
The Coll Hotel
Thirty years ago the Highlander wore his knife as a companion to his dirk or dagger, and when the company sat down to meat, the men who had knives, cut the flesh into small pieces for the women, who with their fingers conveyed it to their mouths." Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1785
Pier Café
Here they all are, the ones in red are not open in the evenings. However, these places do tend to change and come and go, so phone before making a long journey. Click on any underlined names to get to their websites.
Tayvallich Coffee Shop
The Oban Inn