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Place of the day20 hours ago

The Boathouse.

A seafood restaurant by the jetty on the Isle of Ulva, a two-minute ferry from Mull, with no bookings.

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From the magazine18 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 08Issue 08Spring / Summer 2024

Banjo Beale quit his job in advertising in Australia, arrived on the Isle of Mull as a broke backpacker and became a cheesemaker.

He had been an Ideas Director, until he and his partner Ro quit their jobs and bought a one-way ticket to Sri Lanka with no plan. In 2015 they wandered into Isle of Mull Cheese, near Tobermory, which Banjo calls the last remaining cheese farm in the Hebrides, and its matriarch Chris, an 80-year-old granny, became his best pal. 'Arriving as broke backpackers we quickly became chubby cheesemakers, falling in love with the people and the place,' he says. Today Ro manages the cheese production and is helping the family create a distillery that turns leftover whey into spirit, while Banjo is an interior designer who presents the television programme Designing the Hebrides.

Read the full story in Issue 08
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From the magazine15 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 08Issue 08Spring / Summer 2024

The Glass Barn at Sgriob-ruadh Farm, near Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, once stood as a town hall in another village on the island.

The family behind Isle of Mull Cheese put it up in the eighties, and a year after Banjo Beale and his partner Ro arrived on Mull, the farm's matriarch Chris invited them to lease it. Ro was the cook and bookkeeper, and Banjo, now an interior designer, learned there the art of reimagining whatever was at hand. Nothing goes to waste on the farm, and its new farm shop was made from nothing new. A doorway from the island's golf club became the dresser, and a 60-year-old moss-covered slab of marble made the top. Even the sink is a bowl once used in Victorian cheesemaking.

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Food and drink13 hours ago

Café Fish.

A seafood restaurant on the upper floor of Tobermory's pier, fed daily by its own fishing boat, the Highlander.

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Autumn10 hours ago

What The Glass Barn looks like in autumn.

The café and farm shop of Isle of Mull Cheese above Tobermory, under a vine in a glasshouse built on the Clyde.

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Did you know9 hours ago

The gin made at Tobermory distillery on Mull carries a splash of the new spirit from its whisky stills.

Tobermory distillery makes two single malts on the harbour: the unpeated Tobermory, named after the town, and the peated Ledaig. Alongside them it distils a Hebridean gin on the island, with a long list of botanicals and a splash of new make, the clear spirit that runs from the whisky stills before it has ever been put in a cask. The gin and the whisky start in the same copper.

See Tobermory distillery · Argyll and Bute
From the magazine7 hours ago

Jeanette Cutlack walked past a ruined croft on the Isle of Mull every day for years before she turned it into Croft 3, a restaurant that has won an RIAS architecture award.

Jeanette moved to Mull from Brighton in 2008 and spent the next ten years running a restaurant in her rented farmhouse, but her dream was to restore the rundown croft she passed each day. In 2019 the 50-acre croft finally became hers. With an old university friend, the architect Edward Farleigh-Dastmalchi, she turned the basalt and lime ruin into a pared-back dining room that soars up to the rafters, with deep windows framing the sea and the mountains. Guests sit at communal tables made from a single Douglas fir, and the plan is to keep clearing the land and grow much of the food on the croft.

See Croft 3 · Argyll and Bute
Food and drink6 hours ago

Ninth Wave Restaurant.

A croft restaurant near Fionnphort on Mull, where Carla Lamont cooks long lunches from John's catch and their garden.

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From the magazine4 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 13Issue 13Autumn / Winter 2026-27

Croft 3, a restaurant at Fanmore on the Isle of Mull, stands in a building that Jeanette, who runs it with Jack, restored from complete ruin.

The photographer Shelley Richmond, who lives on Mull, calls it her favourite place to eat on the island. The room is elegantly simple, with giant windows framing the view across to Ben More. 'The food is the only thing better than the space itself'. There is always a delicious and inspiring vegan option, she adds. Her ideal Sunday includes lunch at Croft 3, gazing out at Ben More. Lucy's garden at Lip na Cloiche, at Ballygown nearby, is open to the public and makes a beautiful wander after lunch.

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Food and drink2 hours ago

Calgary Bay Co.

A small café by Calgary Bay in north-west Mull, run by Lou and Ben, with lunches, baking and Pilates classes.

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