In preparing and cooking meals for you, Chris uses many ingredients and methods that have been forgotten in this day and age of fast and convenient food. So whilst we can offer you some fresh ideas and dishes, we also offer more traditional foods - especially our own home-baked breads. We make all our own puddings, do all our own baking, and we prepare our own cold smoked salmon and hot smoke-roast duck, salmon, and pork. To cap it all there is a stunning view from the restaurant.

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The eggs we use in cooking and baking come form Flo Macaskill – just a couple of miles down the road.  The chickens are genuinely free to roam (although they are now banned from around the house) and the eggs we buy are so much fresher than any you can buy in the supermarket.  And they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, too!

We use the best and freshest seafood – all from local fishermen.  Nick Milton supplies us with crabs, lobster, prawns and the occasional crawfish, and most of our other fish is landed in Oban and come from D Watts on the pier in Oban – an excellent fishmonger.

A lot of our meat and game comes through local butcher Mark Grant in Taynuilt who ensures the quality of our meat is consistent.  Much of our venison and other game comes from Carl Banner here on the island.  Our lamb comes from Seumas Anderson on the island and pork from local farms in argyll.  The majority of our meat is reared and produced in Britain.  And our dogs love all our meat suppliers too – with gifts of knuckle bones, marrow bones and trotters, who can blame them.

All our ice creams and sorbets are home made, too, giving us enormous flexibility on different flavours and combinations.  You’ll find all sorts of little decorative bits and pieces with the puddings – these, too, are all made by Chris, as are the chocolates you have after dinner.

We also have a fully stocked bar – for your aperitif, or your after-dinner liqueur or brandy.  The bar also houses the larger pieces of our fossil collection including an ichthyosaur paddle and part of the thigh bone of a cetiosaurus – this was Scotland’s first dinosaur bone to be found.  Why not wander through to the bar and have a look.  And one look at the malt collection – you’re sure to want one!

We hope you enjoy your food here, and when Jan comes along during your main course to check if everything is alright, please be honest!  If something is wrong, we can’t put it right unless you tell us!  We are genuinely concerned if there is a problem – we want you to enjoy your stay or your meal here as much as possible.


Even breakfast is something special, with real fruit juices, a choice of cereals including our own muesli, a compote of figs, prunes or apricots, bottled fruits and fresh fruit salad. Our home baked bread is served up with fresh croissants, pancakes, scones, potato scones or pastries and if you still have room you can have a cooked breakfast. It can be the full works with traditionally cured bacon, the butcher’s own sausages, free-range eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes. Or you can have smoked haddock, kippers or our own smoked salmon served with scrambled eggs. All accompanied with tea or coffee and that’s just to start the day!