Cafe One in Highland

Visited Saturday lunchtime. Has been awhile since our last visit. Loved the food.

They served us raw chicken. Immediately threw up. Terrible experience.

Very bad food. The oysters were old and tasted like rotten fish. The worst part was the chicken they served us was raw. It immediately made us both physically sick. Would not recommend this establishment to anyone. They try to pass off as fine dining but the meals are prepared with little to no thought about presentation or quality control.

All the way from paisley The food was delicious 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ And more

Lovely place! Meals were terrific, and service was great! A bit too noisy in the restaurant for our group, but that means everyone was enjoying themselves and having a great time. Lots of menu options - loved the small plate availability for a lighter meal, even at dinner time. The scallops were fantastic! Thank you!

Great place in Inverness with vegetarian options. Lovely food and friendly staff.

Friendly and attentive staff, reasonable prices and quality food. Owner is also friendly.

Food was great , venison was cracking 👌

Excellent angus filet, salad and soup of the day. Friendly staff, service perhaps a little too fast (they brought us what we had ordered to drink after we had finished the starters). Advised!

Popped in for lunch today and had a great lunch. Satay salmon and venison meatballs were both delicious.

Excellent food, the salmon was really delicious and the meat was also good. Price normal (2 main courses, 1 dessert, 1 beer around 55 pounds). The place is a little dark and noisy, but nice.

Very professional staff, friendly and efficient. Restaurant is beautiful and clean. I would definitely recommend!

Excellent food from starter to dessert. Smiling and helpful staff. Pleasant and lively atmosphere

came for a lunch date with my best friend for the first time. the food was beautiful and freshly cooked. the staff were brilliant and very attentive. lovely friendly restaurant and very clean facilities. can't wait to take my family to experience cafe 1.

Nice restaurant. Professional waiters. Lovely blue steak and starters.

amazing restaurant Very delicious and nice staff. Definite Visit!!

The atmosphere is very nice. We ordered the flat iron menu which is only available on Tuesday. The steak is tasty and the mac & cheese is well made as well, though the service is a little bit slow.

Excellent food and service. Great location and ambiance. I’d come back any day

Lovely lunch here today. Food delicious. Nice to get a different choice of dishes. Staff very friendly

Saturday lunch which was very enjoyable. Friendly staff and food hot and tasty. A little bit if a wait between courses but otherwise fine and very reasonably priced. Look forward to our next visit 😊😊 visit from Norman's dog provided some free entertainment!

Pleasant staff. Relaxing ambiance. And the food and drinks were excellent.

Very good cuisine. Very pleasant and very professional staff. The only negative point is that the place is quite noisy and a little dark.

My wife and I caught them on a bad night. Our service was inconsistent, at best. More frustrating for us - we watched three couples arrive after us, but get food service long before us. One of those couples was served dessert before we received our main courses. And we ordered the special. It took about 20 minutes after we finished dessert before we found a member of the wait staff to request our check. We waited another 10 minutes for someone to come by so we could actually pay the bill. Thoroughly frustrated, we walked our bill to the bar to pay. Despite all of the trials and tribulations with service, the food was excellent, and the setting is romantic. It's a beautiful restaurant.

We were very positively surprised by this restaurant! The service was great, very kind people and the food was amazing. Absolutely recommend to go here!

We were recommended to Cafe One from Blair, a local parking enforcer in town. Blair was not mistaken, the food here was absolutely incredible - clean ingredients beautifully prepared. The highlight was a mustardy mac and cheese unlike anything we’ve had before. We highly recommend the burger and steak, both were so tender. The chef knocked it out of the park on the venison carpaccio, the most unique dish we had. The sticky toffee pudding was awesome, truly left us satisfied and wanting to come back again. This is up at the top of our list for our favorite restaurant in Scotland -Traveling Americans

We arrived lost without a cell phone, they invited us water, they didn't want to charge us anything. They told us how to get to our hotel. Thank you sir who assisted us! You make your country look good! Greetings from two Argentines

Skip it! The service was poor, very pushy and she had no knowledge of menu items or the wine menu. We wanted to order drinks and an appetizer but our server said she needed the entire order right away. We weren't checked on once we got our appetizer or after we received our entree. There are plenty of other options that are wonderful.

Best meal I have had in Scotland to date. Fresh produce done well Hat’s off chef and team. My meal was sensational!

Great experience with the owner greeting you The young staff is efficient, polite and agreable. Classy yet simple enough even for a family dinner.

My favourite place to eat in Inverness for food, service & atmosphere. Been going here for years and only recently discovered the malteser crepe on insistence of a friend, never had 3 courses as full after two, but it’s a must! Nice to have a wee drink at the bar before meal too.

We went Out for valentine's night. Had an amazing meal. Staff were friendly and attentive. Good atmosphere. Food was magic.

My partner and I don’t really manage to do date night as often as we would like. So it’s fantastic when we get treated as well as we did by the staff on last night! And even to the point of getting a complementary sea bass! It really does show how much they care about customers experience. Really 10/10 and thank you.

Is this the best restaurant in Inverness? Probably!

Nice cosy little restaurant where the food was absolutely perfect delicious and tasty. Had a lovely meal for my partners sisters wedding celebration and would enjoy eating here again.

Lovely food good service great atmosphere

Vielleicht hatten andere Gäste mehr Glück, aber im Vergleich zu anderen Restaurants in Inverness war das Cafe One eine herbe Enttäuschung. Sehr viel, nettes aber nicht bis schlecht ausgebildetes Personal, ambitionierte Preise, lieblos angerichtete Teller sowie ein schlechtes Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis erlauben kaum eine bessere Bewertung.

Das Essen ist nicht schlecht, aber völlig lieblos angerichtet. Am schlimmsten ist aber, dass alle zwei Minuten ein anderer Kellner kommt und fragt, ob man noch etwas möchte. Das ist schon extrem nervig. Die Portionen sind sehr klein im Verhältnis zum Preis. Absolut nicht zu empfehlen.

Amazing Christmas meal with perfect service. Attentive without being too much.

A lovely restaurant. Very bust, but very nice. Great service

Good food and service and nice atmosphere

Favourite restaurant in Inverness. Food is amazing & atmosphere is always good. Lovely staff & great service.

One of the best meals I had in Scotland or Ireland. The service is spot on. Very attentive and helpful. I had the filet it was so very tender and flavorful. The cheesecake for dessert was amazing. Wonderful meal with wonderful service

Geweldig super lief personeel heerlijk eten

It offers a great variety of food. Prices are good. Chicken dinner was $22. Warm vegetable was $15. Nice staff. High quality food.

Lovely place, great food and the service was impeccable.

Locale abbastanza caotico dove potrete gustarvi una cena sublime a prezzi giusti, nota di merito per i cocktail che sono buonissimi.

Burger was great, desert was good.

Definitely highly recommend! The food was delicious and the atmosphere was very welcoming!

Food was amazing! We had the pork belly starter, sea bass, and beef fillet medallions special for our mains and each was spectacular! The crepe with ice cream for dessert was a wonderful finish! Thank you!

Great meal and a nice place. Very busy which shows how popular it is.

I've been to Cafe One on numerous occasions, and found staff very friendly food great never had any reason to complain a great team all round

Well... we were excited to get a reservation in last minute at what seemingly was a good eatery based on the reviews.. however that quickly faded through a series of mistakes. I think the most eye opening observation was that there wasn't an adult in site. And by adult, I mean a seasoned restranteur, mature host or hostess or really anyone over the age of 25. Many of the small missteps I think could have been avoided with some one overseeing the operation and training the younger generation. Not once were we asked how any part of our meal was, the lamb was overcooked and came out mostly grey (this after the waiter and I joked that overcooked lamb was a corporally punishable offense), and the general lack of proactive service were just the highlights of these missteps. The young ladies in the restaurant were the work horses...hustled the whole time... they would benefit from some service tutelage.

I think is overrated...or maybe in locale opinion looks amazing. Yes, they have nice atractive waitresses,but other than this....place is crowded...food menu is limited desert was decent, at most. Probably you should come for the booze, they have plenty of it.

Boring food nothing bad but nothing good to say. Over raked for sure

Exceptionally friendly greeting when we arrived and a lovely meal with great service, staff couldn’t do enough and were attentive and helpful, all in all a great evening. I highly recommend eating here! 5 stars *****

Good meal, good wine and service. Good restaurant.

We had a really lovely meal at this restaurant. The food was great….the service was even better! Special thanks to Chloe and Mia for going out of their way to help us at the end of the night with getting a taxi during a nightmare time at the end of the evening to help with elderly parents. So much appreciated!

Excelente restaurante en el centro de Inverness en Escocía! La comida es excelente una presentación y calidad de los platos increíble! El sitio es encantador y los muchachos muyyy profesionales y amables! Altamente recomendable!

Excellent food at a very fair price. Service was good. Was referred by the hotel front desk Dolce. Very happy with the restaurant.

Good service. Reasonable price.

Have to say it was pretty disappointing.. One of the venison steaks on the lunch menu was so tough as to be almost inedible, and the haddock and chips just okay, nothing special . The staff, however, were very good, and the steak was taken off the bill with no quibbling. On the desserts a better experience as the strawberry Eton mess was good, and the lemon mousse was very good. Wines were good and reasonably priced. Yes, maybe we were a bit unlucky, but even so, a steak that tough should never have been served.. a pity ..

The food is great but felt that it was too pricey for overall experience.

Friendly, varied menu, excellent service.

Absolutely awful service and treatment from the owner Norman. My partner and I had a voucher from the highland hospice to enjoy 2 courses from the early bird menu only to be told it “clearly states in big writing lunch menu and is not to be used on our early bird, we don’t make enough money from these charity vouchers” with a patronising and rude attitude. The voucher states lunch voucher - 2 courses from early bird. The early bird states 12-5:45 and we arrived at quarter past 5 so I don’t see what time we could’ve used this. We were embarrassed in front of the restaurant as he walked off while we were trying to question it, asking if there was a separate lunch/early bird menu (there isn’t) he arrogantly stated “I don’t come to work to argue with customers”. We also paid to win this voucher and are now out of pocket. The young servers we dealt with were pleasant and understanding, it’s a shame the owner lets the place down, I’d urge anyone to stay away.

Im really impressed. Fresh, healthy, and full foods. The employees are kind and attentive, the cooks are young and don’t skip corners. While the ambiance is intimate, elevated, yet nostalgically casual.

Nice restaurant close to city center. However, after the first course, we spent the remainder of our meal listening to the chef yelling profanities in the kitchen, for about 30 minutes. The food was good, but we felt like we were in Hell’s Kitchen. Very uncomfortable. I don’t believe customers or staff should be subjected to this type of behaviour.

I called the day of and got a reservation. The food was outstanding! The service was fantastic! The atmosphere was so much fun! I would definitely recommend this place! If I could give 10 stars I would!

Edited May 2023: Starter and dessert lovely, however the main, a crab pasta dish, was a real disappointment. Lots of pasta with a table spoon of sauce with minimal crab in it. This dish sells at £28 folks. Massively overpriced and no offer of any recompense when we complained. £116 for two starters, two mains, one dessert and a £35 bottle of wine. All served in 45 minutes.

Fantastic service. Staff attentive, polite. Food amazing, beautifully presented and absolutely delicious.

Fantastic food and service, will definitely be back. Highly recommend a visit.

Excellent service, good atmosphere, but high prices and poor choice of Scottish cuisine.

I was unfortunately overall disappointed. The service was the primary issue, the restaurant was busy but service was stunningly slow, it took 45 minutes just to get bread and the server just never collected our payment, it took so long I went to the front to pay. As I said they were busy, but there were many servers around, several were just idle and one was even talking with a table and showing them photos on their phone. The food was okay, with a few things being quite good. My protein was quite overcooked however, and the dessert seemed as though it wasn't house made (but I could be wrong).

Heerlijk gegeten, fijn personeel. Aanrader

Stopped by this lovely cafe on our first afternoon in Inverness. Warm and friendly staff. Chicken soup was excellent and brought us a little flavor of home. Great food and place to have a nice meal.

All was perfect ! Thanks for everything ! My 30th birthday was perfect with you.

We were at Cafe one last night was nothing but spectacular very pleasant and polite young people who served us food was brilliant will go again the next time we are down

Excellent food , service was amazing, staff so polite 😀 😋

Lovely and cosy restaurant on Castle street. Fabulous local food and kind/fun staffs. Had a Venison steak with black pudding mash, it was cooked to perfection ⭐️

We booked the table quite in advance and were really looking forward to try out some of their speciality dishes. However, we were never informed about the valentine's day set menu up until we reached the place. The valentine's day set menu was just a condensed version of their actual menu sans the items that we really wanted to try. The food was actually fine. However, the service was quite subpar. We were seen by 4 waiters and there was no communication amongst them that led to us waiting for our dessert for more than 30 mins. The overall experience for the price was very very disappointing

Cafe 1 makes me feel safe which is important to me as I have a life threatening food allergy and it is always taken very seriously. I can ask for dishes to be adapted which is great. The pork belly is my favourite starter. Norman, couby and staff are just amazing thank you

Great neighbourhood restaurant, good cooking, friendly service

Love to visit when we get over to Inverness. Staff are nice and friendly, cocktails are excellent. Lovely menu, food is always on point - well done, chefs 😁

As we stood outside perusing the menu a passer by urged us to go in as it was great. So we did, really enjoyed our lunch it was fresh, tasty and the room inside has a great atmosphere

Delicious dining, good wine choices, great service with a very friendly atmosphere

Amazing food treated like a vip 👌🏾

Excellent food and service. Highly recommended 👌

Wonderful restaurant in Inverness, Scotland. We arrived early for our reservation and the manager offered to seat us before a larger group arrived so our food orders could go in ahead. Wonderful staff!!!, they were always checking on our needs. Everyone in our group thoroughly enjoyed their mains. Try the oysters they are wonderful simply on the shell. We had the chocolate bomb dessert-fantastic. Simply an all around wonderful dinner experience!!!

Amazing food, amazing service and amazing atmosphere! Brilliant restaurant. Definitely a place to go and recommend.

Wonderful restaurant with wonderful staff. It's not often you have great mains with starters and drinks and both smile at each other when the bill arrives as its very reasonable. Pretty sure this is now our favourite local restaurant. Also great to have an owner who greats you and makes sure your having a good evening. 5/5

Too noisy, too busy and too expensive although food was very good. However, for lamb of 34 gbp, ordered pink, I expect it correctly cooked and above average. This quality was not achieved unfortunately. The personnel is very friendly with the exception of the main waitress. She took the plate from under my nose while I just finished putting the last piece of food in my mouth. In addition, she returned a minute later with the dessert menu without requesting whether we needed anything else. I found her to be extremely pretentious. In general, I find it unfortunate to not be able to recommend this place.

Cadre très agréable, personnel accueillant et service assez rapide. La viande était excellente et les assiettes pas trop copieuses. Très bon moment et un excellent souvenir pour notre passage à Inverness 👍

Ate in this lovely restaurant last night & the food was outstanding.i went for the fillet steak which was cooked exactly how I like it & finished off with a Cherry Bakewell Cocktail.Delicious. Would highly recommend & definitely go back

Fabulous food and service. Hard to fault.

We popped in for a quick lunch, lovely wine bar, cafe & restaurant. Very friendly staff, great service. We had their delicious tomato, chilli & basil soup with fresh bread wine & cocktails.

Excellent lunch, friendly staff. Really like this restaurant.

Lovely food, cocktails and smart engaging staff. Clearly committed to serving well prepared food and their guests satisfaction.

Excellent food, great staff , don't change nothing 🤘

Sitio acogedor y con muy bien servicio en Invernes (HighLands). Para comer o cenar o simplemente tomarte un cafe

Visited for dinner on 6th Aug. Very, very nice dinner, extremely tasty. The lamb was incredibly delicious. Would definitely recommend.

Beautiful Cafe, friendly staff, tasty food