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A toasted sandwich at Cafe Sunart, with green salad, red cabbage slaw and crisps on a white plate.
Ardnamurchan

Cafe Sunart

The village café in the centre of Strontian, at the head of Loch Sunart, open every day for breakfast and lunch.

Welcome

Cafe Sunart is a good place to start a day in Sunart, with a bite to eat and a table to plan over before you set off.

When the sun's out, take a seat at one of the tables outside. Strontian's Gaelic name means the point of the fairies, and some lovely walks start from the village. Phemie's Walk takes its name from a Forestry Commission worker who was well known in Strontian, and it climbs through the woods under some huge old conifers to a view over Loch Sunart. The community woodland is another, planted in the nineteenth century by the Riddells of the Sunart estate. From its top end, the Fairies Road heads on up the glen to join the trail through the Ariundle oakwood. Leave the car in the village centre, and come back to the café for a rest afterwards.

A little further outThe Coal Shed CaféThe Ardtornish estate's own café, opened in 2025 in the estate square at Achranich, three miles from Lochaline in Morvern.28 min by roadSee itA cheese toastie scattered with chives at the Coal Shed Café, Ardtornish, with slaw, a chopped salsa and vegetable crisps on a grey plate.
Before you go

The café has no website: its opening times and news are on its Facebook page.

Where
1 Dalmhor, Strontian, PH36 4HZ.

Opening hours

Monday
8am–4pm
Tuesday
8am–4pm
Wednesday
8am–4pm
Thursday
8am–4pm
Friday
8am–4pm
Saturday
8am–4pm
Sunday
9am–3pm

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Where it is

In Strontian, on the A861.

Close byStrontian, Sunart and Loch Sunart.
  1. A gravel path through the Ariundle oakwood in sunshine, old oaks on either side and thick moss over the roots and boulders.Ariundle OakwoodAn ancient Atlantic oakwood and National Nature Reserve in the glen of the Strontian River, just north of Strontian in Sunart.2 miles 5 min by road
  2. Visitor looks through binoculars inside a timber-framed wildlife hide overlooking the lochGarbh Eilean Wildlife HideA wooden wildlife hide on the shore of Loch Sunart, looking out to islands where common seals bask and herons nest.6 miles 8 min by road
  3. Resipole Studios, LochaberResipole StudiosAn award-winning gallery of contemporary Scottish art on the shore of Loch Sunart, with four exhibition spaces and changing shows.7 miles 11 min by road
  4. Loch ShielLoch ShielA narrow freshwater loch running 17 miles from Glenfinnan, where the monument stands, to Acharacle, with ancient woodland along its shore.8 miles 27 min by road
  5. Castle TioramCastle TioramA ruined castle of the Clanranald on a tidal island in Loch Moidart, reached across a sandy causeway, with the interior closed as unsafe.15 miles 23 min by road
  6. Ardtornish House in its gardens from the air, lawns and flowering shrubs round the pink sandstone mansion and its tower, woods all round and the Morvern hills beyond under summer cloud.Ardtornish GardensA Victorian garden of lawns, rockeries and woods round Ardtornish House, at the head of Loch Aline in Morvern.19 miles 27 min by road
  7. Copper pot still and oak barrel beside a window overlooking a lochArdnamurchan DistilleryA small, modern whisky distillery at Glenbeg on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, with tours, a visitor centre and peated and unpeated single malts.19 miles 27 min by road
Directions
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