Restaurants, Bar & pub food

The Am Fuaran Bar near Achiltibuie is a family run business situated in a renovated croft house. A multi fuel stove radiates a warm welcome and there is a daily menu specialising in locally caught seafood. One of the owners, David Last, has his own boat…

Scottish ingredients are given an international makeover in this restaurant and bar in the village of Fortrose, near Inverness. A Manhattan seafood chowder is loaded with Moray Firth spoots and crab meat, or there is a decidedly un-Highlands-style…

Housed in one of Ullapool’s original white washed buildings, the Arch Inn is popular with locals as a watering hole with a busy schedule of live entertainment. There are two options for food. Downstairs, bar menu is available seven days a week between…

Good, honest homely pub grub, with a focus on quality produce at its seasonal best, this is an homage to simple food made great! A happy, bustling place with a quirky, welcoming interior, The Athenaeum has become destination pub in it’s own right.

With its sumptuous velvet and soft tweed furnishing, the Balmoral Bar provides a slice of Scottish country-house elegance in the heart of the city, giving locals and tourists alike a chance to sample one of Edinburgh’s finest institutions. Although a…

A bar belonging to a fashion house will almost by definition be intimidatingly stylish: there cannot be many bars where the cocktail menu varies according to the colours and themes of the current fashion season. Nonetheless, the staff appear to be…

The uninitiated may think the name derives from the amazing array of activities at Xscape, from climbing to mini-golf to movies. Or even the variety of food on offer. But the pleasant surprise, especially for beer fans, is that it refers to the regional…

Tapas eating can fit into a shopping expedition like few other culinary styles – it’s restorative, flexible and convivial, and rarely too heavy or time-consuming. So Barça’s location in Princes Square makes a lot of sense, and after eight years it ranks…

Bloody Marys this good can make the rest look bad. That’s not so much of a surprise; enjoy some more while looking at the name on the sign outside – it’ll all make sense. This stylized and lightly eccentric bar in the heart of the West End gets away…

Secreted down a typically undulated City Centre backlane, the Buff Low Café is another feather for the Butterfly and the Pig – who now have so much stuff going on in this building that it is turning into a leisure complex. Reshaped from a reclaimed bit…

Pairing a butterfly and a pig may seem absurd. Yet it’s a love affair with the incongruous that wins patrons’ hearts to this unique basement venue. Vintage shabby-chic sofas and winged-back armchairs give the bar real comfort with a decent pint during…

A historic wayside pub in the heart of the Trossachs serving sophisticated and imaginative food including salt cod fritters, pheasant coq au vin and braised mutton.

Following its face-lift this recently refurbished bistro offers up food sourced locally.