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The Boatshed's dining room at the Royal Hotel, leather chairs at laid tables on a wooden floor under panelled walls.
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The Boatshed, Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel's seafood restaurant on Stornoway's harbour front, with an AA Rosette and Hebridean scallops, mussels and langoustines.

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The Boatshed is the restaurant of the Royal Hotel, on Cromwell Street in the middle of Stornoway, looking across the road to the inner harbour.

As you'd hope in a harbour town, the menu leans on the sea: scallops from around the Hebrides, mussels from Leurbost a few miles down the coast and langoustines, along with Scottish dishes that change with the seasons and a tower of haggis and black pudding from Charles MacLeod, the Stornoway butcher. It holds an AA Rosette for its cooking. Lunch is two or three courses at a set price, and in the evening there's a market menu of two or three courses. Lunch and dinner are served every day of the week, and the restaurant always advises booking, especially for dinner. For something more casual, the hotel's HS-1 café bar is under the same roof, and the ferry terminal and An Lanntair are both a short walk along the harbour.

Close byLa BalenaA family-run Italian restaurant on Francis Street in Stornoway, with pizza, pasta and island seafood, closed on Sundays and Mondays.3 min by roadSee itA plate of spaghetti in tomato sauce with a halved red lobster laid over it, at La Balena in Stornoway.
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  1. Bathroom counter with labelled bottles, dried grasses and a woven storage basketSandwick Bay Candles, StornowayUnder a mile 2 min by road
  2. Visitors looking round an exhibition in An Lanntair's gallery, the white walls hung with paintings and prints, sculptures on plinths.An LanntairStornoway's arts centre on the seafront, with a gallery, a cinema, a 200-seat theatre and a café bar, open since 2005.Under a mile 2 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 4 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 5 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 17 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 Balena0.5 miles
Blue shipping container converted into a food kiosk with serving hatch openRestaurantsCrust, Achmore8.4 miles

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