Discover The Good Food Guide’s top-rated restaurants, cafés and speciality coffee spots on the Isle of Skye. From whitewashed cottages with rugged charm to remote hunting lodges with well-stocked whiskey bars, our inspectors have selected the best places to get a flavour of Skye’s natural beauty, superb produce and its culinary excellence.
Our Best Local Restaurant list celebrates the places that are the beating heart of communities around Britain. Using reader nominations as a driving force, we inspected a great number of restaurants in Scotland to decide which ones deserved a place in the 100 Best Local Restaurants 2023. Some are old favourites, others are new to The Good Food Guide, all are brilliant places to eat.
September is a fabulous time of year to travel. Honey-pot coastal spots breathe again as beaches start to release their clog of visitors. Summer-frenzied chefs and their front of house people are calmer, menus get a seasonal glow-up, and it’s a whole lot easier to book into sought-after seaside restaurants. Where to go? Read on for gastronomic getaway inspiration and some recommended coastal restaurants, all the lovelier as the seasons turn.
Country house hotels have been quietly shaking off their dusty image for years. Then the no-fly period of the pandemic struck and suddenly opinion-shapers were checking into places with glorious gardens, sumptuous interiors and kitchens whose food thrilled. Voluminous floral chintz in dusty dining rooms, prissy formality and palate-deadening food? There’s no space for that in these competitive times. Heritage-respecting style, easy informality laced with luxury, and inspired cooking by talented chefs using kitchen garden ingredients? Yes please.
When owners Shirley and Eddie Spear opened The Three Chimneys in 1984, little did they know that three decades later this former stone croft would become one of the world’s most renowned restaurants.
