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Sutherland

Langoustines in Lochinver, focaccia in Tongue.

Eating in Sutherland means seafood by the harbours and baking in the old village stores. In Lochinver, a family-run restaurant on the harbour front serves scallops and creel-caught langoustines. At Kylesku, an inn by the old ferry slipway cooks local seafood. Along the north coast, cafés in Tongue and Bettyhill pour coffee in restored shops, and at Balnakeil, by Durness, a chocolatier makes its own truffles. In Dornoch, you can have dinner in the old bishop's palace across the green from the cathedral. Places to eat are few and far between, so plan your stops and book dinner ahead.

Bettyhill Tourist Information & Cafe→
Sutor Creek Café→
Peet's Lochinver→
Milk & Honey→
Golspie Inn→
Ceilidh Place→
Burr’s of Tongue→
Cocoa Mountain Balnakeil→
Weavers Craft Shop & Café→
Kylesku House→
Dornoch Castle Hotel→
Kylesku Hotel Restaurant→
Place of the day19 hours ago

The River Bothy.

A tea room, deli and gift shop in a stone cottage on the Berriedale River, just off the A9 on the Caithness coast.

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Food and drink18 hours ago

Sutor Creek Café.

Fresh seafood and woodfired pizzas at Sutor Creek Café in Cromarty

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From our guide17 hours ago

Milk & Honey.

On Dornoch's High Street, a wooden sign swings from a stone shopfront: Milk & Honey. It is a small, popular café, and at busy times you may wait a few minutes for a table. Breakfasts are hearty, and lunch brings soups, toasties and wraps, with a specials board that changes. The coffee is good, but the baking is the real draw, from carrot cake to cheesecakes, with a counter of cakes to take away. There is plenty for anyone eating gluten-free. The cathedral and the green are just round the corner.

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Food and drink16 hours ago

Kylesku House.

A small hotel at Unapool near Kylesku, formerly Newton Lodge, run as part of the Kylesku Hotel, with loch and mountain views and a shuttle down to dinner.

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From our guide15 hours ago

Peet's Lochinver.

Peet's sits right on the harbour front at Lochinver, a family-run restaurant that has kept its menu close to the sea in front of it since 2014. Scallops are what most people come for, along with mussels, a seafood platter and langoustines caught in creels offshore. There are steaks and fish and chips for anyone after something simpler, and sticky toffee pudding to finish. It opens in the evenings through the season and fills up quickly, especially at weekends, so book ahead. Dogs are welcome out on the deck.

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Did you know14 hours ago

Near Durness in Sutherland, Balnakeil Craft Village fills the buildings of a Cold War early-warning station that was never used.

The Ministry of Defence built the station in the 1950s, a mile west of Durness beside Balnakeil Bay, and never commissioned it. In the 1960s artists and makers moved in. Today its studios offer everything from handmade chocolates and ceramics to woodwork, textiles and fine art. It is free to wander, and most studios open from Easter to late September.

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Restaurants to book ahead, and the ones you can still walk into.

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From our guide13 hours ago

Kylesku Hotel Restaurant.

Where the ferry used to land before the bridge was built, the Kylesku Hotel sits on the rocky shore of Loch Glendhu, its reflection doubled in the still water. It is one of the great stops on the road through the north-west. The restaurant cooks what is close at hand: shellfish from the loch, fish from the nearby coast, and pork and beef from the crofts around. Ask for a window table, where you look straight out over the water to the hills. The bar keeps a fine collection of single malts, local ales and Scottish gins.

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From our guide10 hours ago

Cocoa Mountain Dornoch.

On Castle Street, the chocolate makers from Balnakeil on the north coast have a second shop, in a long, low building of warm sandstone. The same handmade chocolates and truffles sit in rows under glass. The thing to order is the chaser, a hot chocolate that comes with four chocolates of your choosing. There are cakes too, and croissants filled with chocolate. The cathedral, the old bishop's palace and the long beach are all a few minutes' walk away.

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From the magazine9 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 11Issue 11Autumn / Winter 2025–26

When the old Burr's Store in Tongue, on Scotland's north coast, was brought back to life, the community was asked what it wanted, and a bakery topped the wish list.

The trading post dates back to the early 1900s, and in 1932 Peter Burr expanded it into a transport hub, tearoom, bakery and store, a vital lifeline for the community. Over time it fell into disrepair, ending up as a tired shop and petrol stop. Now restored, it houses an artisan bakery, a café and a bookshop, with space to show local crafts, and it holds regular markets and events. It has become a favourite stop on the North Coast 500, the driving route round the top of Scotland.

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