Croft 36
A craft bakery and seafood takeaway in a green wooden shed on a croft at Northton, in the south of Harris, with an honesty box and wood-fired pizza in the evenings.
Croft 36 is a little green shed on a croft at Northton, near the southern tip of Harris, and it's one of the happiest food stops on the island.
The family took on the croft in 1997, started cooking seafood meals for visitors and neighbours in 2010, and built the shed the following year, honesty box and all. Inside you'll find butteries, bread, scones and tarts baked that morning, along with soups, quiche and meals made with Leverburgh langoustines, crab and fish, and vegetables grown on the machair and in their own polytunnel. The baking goes out at eleven and lasts until it's sold out, so come early. In the evenings a wood-fired oven, fuelled with willow they planted themselves twenty years ago, turns out pizzas from the Pizza Shed, collected in a slot you book ahead. Pay at the honesty box or by PayPal, then take your lunch down to the shore for a picnic.
Come early for the baking, which sells out.
Pizza is collected in a slot you book.
- Where
- 36 Northton, Isle of Harris, HS3 3JA.
- Open
- Weekdays from 11am; the baking goes until it's sold out.
- Pizza
- From the Pizza Shed, 5pm to 8pm Wednesday to Saturday, collected in a slot booked the day before or that morning.
- Paying
- By the honesty box, or by PayPal to the address on the board.
- Phone
- 07500 341888
Opening hours
Their website- Monday
- 11am–6pm
- Tuesday
- 11am–6pm
- Wednesday
- 11am–6pm
- Thursday
- 11am–6pm
- Friday
- 11am–6pm
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
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