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A main course at An Cala Ciùin in Tobermory, with asparagus, a potato, a small tart topped with wild garlic flowers and a dark sauce on a grey stone plate.
Isle of Mull

An Cala Ciùin

A fine dining restaurant on the first floor of the Mishnish Hotel in Tobermory, with tasting menus built on Mull's own produce.

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Welcome

Upstairs at the Mishnish, on Tobermory's colourful Main Street, An Cala Ciùin is where the best of Mull's larder ends up on a tasting menu.

Head chef Ross Caithness builds his menus almost entirely from the island and the waters around it: smoked trout from the Tobermory Fish Company, Inverlussa mussels, Tobermory langoustines, Mull scallops, and beef, lamb and venison from Glengorm. Even the petit fours come with a Ledaig whisky jelly. Choose the full signature tasting menu, a shorter seven courses or the set lunch, with a vegetarian tasting menu too, and paired wines if you'd like them. The dining room is on the first floor of the hotel, through reception, with views out to the harbour, and it's a gorgeous setting for a long lunch or a special evening. It's open Wednesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, the menu changes with the seasons, and it's best to book ahead through its own website.

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The Daily for 30 October, from Scotland with love. Aerial view of a teal-coloured lochan cupped in a forested hollow, a scree slope rising on one side and autumn-tinged pines ringing the shore.
Round the cornerTobermory distilleryOne of the oldest working distilleries in Scotland, founded in 1798 at Ledaig in Tobermory, with tours, tastings and a shop.Under a mileSee itTobermory distillery
Before you go

Open Wednesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner.

Book ahead through its own site.

Where
On the first floor of the Mishnish Hotel, Main Street, Tobermory, PA75 6NU, through reception.
Open
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 2.30pm and 5.30pm to 10pm.
The menus
A set lunch at £65, a seven-course tasting menu at £90 and the signature tasting menu at £125, with paired wines and a vegetarian tasting menu.
Booking
Online through its own site, by phone or by email. Cancelling with less than 48 hours' notice costs £25 a head.
Phone
01680 309106

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
noon–2.30pm, 5.30pm–10pm
Thursday
noon–2.30pm, 5.30pm–10pm
Friday
noon–2.30pm, 5.30pm–10pm
Saturday
noon–2.30pm, 5.30pm–10pm
Sunday
Closed

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Where it is

On the first floor of the Mishnish Hotel on Main Street, Tobermory, PA75 6NU.

Close byTobermory and the north of Mull.
  1. The blue front of the Hebridean Whale Centre on Tobermory's Main Street.Hebridean Whale CentreThe Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust's free centre on Tobermory's harbour front, with exhibitions, sightings and talks.Under a mile as the crow flies
  2. TobermoryTobermoryMull's main town, a planned fishing port of 1788 whose painted houses curve round a sheltered bay on the Sound of Mull.Under a mile as the crow flies
  3. A tall waterfall pouring over dark rock in Aros Park, a burn tumbling through boulders below among trees.Aros Park WaterfallsWoodland trails and waterfalls on the edge of Tobermory, with views over the Sound of Mull to Ardnamurchan.1 mile as the crow flies
  4. Rubha nan Gall LighthouseRubha nan Gall LighthouseThe Stevensons' lighthouse of 1857 at Stranger's Point north of Tobermory, reached by a woodland path from the town.1 mile as the crow flies
  5. Loch Torr Wildlife HideLoch Torr Wildlife HideAn unstaffed Forestry and Land Scotland hide above Loch Torr between Dervaig and Tobermory, for eagles, buzzards and otters.4 miles as the crow flies
  6. The dining room at Ar Bòrd in Dervaig, a table laid for dinner on a herringbone rug, with a pine dresser, a bookcase and windows looking out on green fields.Ar BòrdA small restaurant in its owners' home above Dervaig on Mull, with a seasonal set menu of island produce and no licence, so you bring your own bottle.5 miles as the crow flies
Directions
Diners at a table by the bright windows of Café Fish, painted fish on the walls.RestaurantsCafé FishA step away
The blue front of Brown's on Tobermory's Main Street, a rally car parked outside.ShoppingBrown's TobermoryA step away
A man serving a customer at the hatch of the Fisherman's Pier trailer, the chalkboard menu beside it.AttractionsFisherman’s Pier Fish and ChipsA step away
Inside The Galleon: white walls, a high ceiling with a round window, tables and a staircase.RestaurantsThe GalleonA step away
The green 'Tobermory Stores' sign over the shop window, a painted mural below.ShoppingTobermory Stores0.2 miles
The whitewashed front of the Tobermory Distillery visitor centre, painted with the year 1798 and bottles.ToursTobermory distillery0.2 miles
Copper pot stills with swan necks under a distillery's timber roofAttractionsNc'nean Distillery2.9 miles
Inside the Glass Barn: tables under a glass roof covered in a green vine, the fields beyond the windows.CafeThe Glass Barn3.5 miles
A rocky headland juts into a loch beneath a cloud-covered mountainAttractionsLoch Sunart4.6 miles

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Stay nearby

Places to stay near the restaurant, and when each is next free.

The house's gabled wing with a decked terrace and two chairs, solar panels along the roof, seen across a grassy slope.Borradill House
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Glenborrodale
  • 8 miles from An Cala Ciùin
Free 15–18 NovBorradill Cottage, ArdnamurchanBorradill Cottage
  • Sleeps 4
  • In Glenborrodale
  • 8 miles from An Cala Ciùin
Free 29 Nov – 2 DecGlenhurich Lodge, white-harled with dormer windows, at the end of its track behind a beech hedge, snow on the hills beyond.Glenhurich Lodge
  • Sleeps 11
  • In Glenhurich
  • 20 miles from An Cala Ciùin
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