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An Lanntair

Stornoway's arts centre on the seafront, with a gallery, a cinema, a 200-seat theatre and a café bar, open since 2005.

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An Lanntair is Stornoway's arts centre, a bright modern building on Kenneth Street, looking over the harbour and a few steps from the bus station.

It opened in October 2005, after a ten-year campaign, and it has become a hub for the arts across the Outer Hebrides, with a gallery of contemporary art, a cinema, a shop and a theatre and concert hall seating 200. Exhibitions change through the year, so there's always something new on the gallery walls, and the stage hosts music, theatre and dance. Every autumn it's home to Faclan, the Hebridean Book Festival. The café bar, with its tall windows over the harbour, serves coffee and cake from ten and food from noon, which makes it a good place to land on a wet afternoon in town. It stays open late from Thursday to Saturday, and there's a large public car park right beside it on South Beach Street.

Round the cornerLa BalenaA family-run Italian restaurant on Francis Street in Stornoway, with pizza, pasta and island seafood, closed on Sundays and Mondays.1 min by roadSee itA plate of spaghetti in tomato sauce with a halved red lobster laid over it, at La Balena in Stornoway.
Close by
  1. Bathroom counter with labelled bottles, dried grasses and a woven storage basketSandwick Bay Candles, StornowayUnder a mile 1 min by road
  2. The Boatshed's dining room at the Royal Hotel, leather chairs at laid tables on a wooden floor under panelled walls.The Boatshed, Royal HotelThe Royal Hotel's seafood restaurant on Stornoway's harbour front, with an AA Rosette and Hebridean scallops, mussels and langoustines.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. The lounge bar at the Cabarfeidh Hotel, blue armchairs round tables, a grand piano and a wooden bar under a chandelier.Cabarfeidh HotelA family-run four-star hotel on the edge of Stornoway, opened in the early 1970s, with a seafood and grill restaurant and a bar.1 mile 3 min by road
  4. Lews Castle on its hill in winter sun, the towers and battlements against a clear blue sky above a field of snow.Lews CastleA Victorian castle above Stornoway harbour, with Museum nan Eilean, a café and wooded grounds owned by the community.1 mile 4 min by road
  5. Breakfast laid on a table by a tall window at Broad Bay House, the sea and the far shore beyond the balcony.Broad Bay HouseA five-star guest house of four suites on the shore at Back, seven miles north of Stornoway, with a bar and dinners some nights.8 miles 16 min by road
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A plate of spaghetti in tomato sauce with a halved red lobster laid over it, at La Balena in Stornoway.RestaurantsLa BalenaA step away
Blue shipping container converted into a food kiosk with serving hatch openRestaurantsCrust, Achmore8.3 miles

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