Ullapool – The Harbour and Supper at the Seaforth
A few hours.
The route
Ullapool was built round its harbour.
The fishing boats lie by the pier, the Stornoway ferry comes and goes, and Loch Broom stretches away beyond the white houses. Then it's a few minutes' walk round the corner for award-winning fish and chips at the Seaforth.
Before you go
The day
Ullapool
A short one on Ullapool's front: the harbour and its boats on Loch Broom, then a fish supper three minutes' walk away on Quay Street.
About two hours
Ullapool harbour
Leave the car in the Highland Council car park on Latheron Lane and walk down to Shore Street at the head of the harbour. Ullapool was laid out in 1788 by the British Fisheries Society, with Thomas Telford, to land the herring, and the neat grid of white houses along the shore is theirs. Fishing boats still tie up by the pier, and from the late 1970s fleets of East European factory ships, the Klondykers, anchored in Loch Broom to process mackerel. Today the CalMac ferry to Stornoway berths here, sailing twice a day all year: CalMac's timetable will tell you when to see her come or go.
About 3 min on foot
The Seaforth
Supper
Supper is at the Seaforth on Quay Street, three minutes' walk round from the head of the harbour. Its fish and chips, haddock in batter or breadcrumbs with hand-cut chips, were named Best Chippy North at the national Fish and Chip Awards in 2023 and 2024, and its langoustines are landed in the harbour. The chippy and the bar serve every day from noon to 9pm, to sit in or take away, with a Wee Legends menu for children and a fire in the bar in winter. Ring 01854 612122.
If it rains
On a wet evening, keep the harbour short and go straight round to the Seaforth.
Photograph by Laszlo Zavori via Google