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A whitewashed cottage with a slated roof beside a sign reading Inver, wooden barrels set along the drive
Argyll and Bute

Inver, Strathlachlan

A restaurant with rooms on the shore of Loch Fyne at Strathlachlan, holding four AA Rosettes, cooking seafood, foraged food and local produce under chef Pam Brunton.

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Welcome

Inver sits in a whitewashed former crofter's cottage on the shore of Loch Fyne at Strathlachlan, looking across the water to the ruin of Old Castle Lachlan.

Visited and photographed by Simon Hird

The kitchen is led by chef Pam Brunton, whose book Between Two Waters won the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award in 2025. The AA raised it to four Rosettes in September 2026, and in 2021 it was one of the first restaurants in the UK to be given Michelin's Green Star for sustainable cooking.

The cooking is rooted in the place: seafood from the loch and the coast, foraged plants, and vegetables and meat from neighbouring growers. Lunch is a relaxed a la carte, while dinner is a six-course tasting menu that lasts around three hours.

To make a night of it, you can stay in one of the timber bothies or shepherd's huts by the shore, with a breakfast hamper in the morning. Inver opens every day from April to October and from Thursday to Sunday in March, November and December. Booking is essential.

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Before you go

Open daily from April to October; Thursday to Sunday in March, November and December.

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Lunch
A la carte, 12 noon to 2pm.
Dinner
Tasting menu, £125.
Stay
Bothies and shepherd's huts.

Opening hours

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Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
6.30pm–11pm
Friday
noon–5pm, 6.30pm–11pm
Saturday
noon–5pm, 6.30pm–11.30pm
Sunday
noon–5pm, 6.30pm–11pm

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A sign reading Inver, Path to Old Castle Lachlan, set in a wooden planter beside a loch
Did you know

A path to the castle.

A sign at Inver points the way along the shore to Old Castle Lachlan, which the rooms look out on.

A timber shepherd's hut with a teal door, a table and chairs set on its deck among trees
Did you know

A prize-winning book.

Inver's chef, Pam Brunton, won the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award in 2025 for Between Two Waters.

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Where it is

On the shore of Loch Fyne at Strathlachlan, south of Strachur, PA27 8BU.

Close byLoch Fyne.
  1. Old Castle LachlanOld Castle LachlanThe ivy-hung ruin of the Maclachlans' 15th-century castle on Loch Fyne, bombarded by a government warship in 1746.Under a mile 1 min by road
  2. The blacksmith at the glowing forge.Strachur Smiddy Museum and CraftsA village blacksmith's shop at Strachur, worked by four generations of Montgomerys and kept as a museum with a working forge.7 miles 12 min by road
  3. The Allt Robuic tumbling through its green gorge.GlenbranterA forest hamlet by Loch Eck in Cowal, once Harry Lauder's estate, with a waterfall gorge walk and a wildlife hide.10 miles 17 min by road
  4. The lane through Kilfinan past the whitewashed hotel, a mossy stone wall alongside.Kilfinan Church and StonesA Cowal village by Loch Fyne whose 17th-century church keeps a vault of carved stones, from early Christian slabs to medieval grave slabs.12 miles 22 min by road
  5. Pines on a point, mirrored in the still water of Loch Eck.Loch EckA long, quiet loch in the Argyll Forest Park, with red squirrels on its shores and the rare powan in its depths.14 miles 22 min by road
  6. Chilled counter and shelves of jars inside the Loch Fyne Deli and ShopLoch Fyne Oyster BarOysters at the head of the loch.19 miles 29 min by road
Directions
The wooded shore of Loch Eck.AttractionsJubilee Point, Loch Eck14 miles
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