The White Heather Cafe in Highland

We called in when visiting Smoo Caves to a burger van in the carpark of this cafe. Served by a very friendly lady and had amazing burgers, hot dogs, bacon rolls and drinks. Refreshing to be somewhere where you are welcomed. We sat out on the picnic tables. Highly recommend.

While on our NC500 Trip with friends in Motorhome we visited here for breakfast, we were made very welcome and the food and service was excellent, the owner is so nice, and warmly filling us in about the area. She and her husband were also so understanding and very nice when we managed to sink our van at the side of their building when filling up with water, which took a local JCB driver to pull us out. Everybody was so nice they deserve to be visited by everyone visiting Smoo Cave (just 100 yards down the road), I can only thank them sincerely for their help.

We were looking for a place to get a bit to eat for lunch. Found this place and we only went in because we were hungry and thirsty. From the outside it looks like something you might picture being in a Stephen King horror novel. Don't think it has had any improvements or renevations since it was built and the inside was not any better. It was like stepping back I time to the 1960/70s. The food to ages to arrive and all we had ordered were sandwiches and got filled rolls. When it did arrive it was not worth the wait. During our time up this way this was only one of two places we did not return to.

Simple café qui fait aussi supérette, bureau de poste et marchand de journeaux. Grand balcon qui fait office de petite terrasse avec un réfectoire intérieur d'une dizaine de tables. Le "centre de vie" de Tongue !

We had just visited Smoo Cave and stopped here for a drink. Two had a can of pop and another a pot of tea. The cafe is run by an old lady, and everything is made 'out back' and then brought front of house. The interior of the cafe does make you feel like you're going back in time a bit. The tea was presented in a teapot with a lovely china tea cup, all served on a tray. Prices were very reasonable and the old lady friendly.

We staid here for one night. The owner Mairi Clarke was a great host. She's a very unique person, I understand why some wrote here she doesn't say a lot. But that's I think due to the fact that she can't hear as good anymore - just speak a bit louder and she'll help you with everything. Not a 5* establishment, but very cosy and unique - a place and a host like right from a Wes Anderson movie

Stopped off here for lunch whilst on a tour of northern Scotland. The service was dismal, the food was ok except for the soup which had hair in it! Would no5 recommend this place.

Great cup of tea. Very nice brownies! Probably not a lot of choice but it was outside and the door was open.

We pulled in to this cafe whilst covering the NC500 recently on our motorbikes. We were cold and needed a hot cup of tea. Stepping back into the 1970s, this cafe provided a hot cup of tea but little else. The lady running the cafe spent the whole time in another room with other people through a door marked ‘private’, and we didn’t see her once she had served us. The refreshments available consisted of a few pieces of cake and half a dozen different biscuit bars from multipacks. The tea was good however and the toilet worked.

My advice would be drive cycle or walk on Awful service we were ignored for ages and it was far from full had to shout our order over to the till area Then served bacon roll a la long grey hair Major Boke attack Seriously give it a miss

La personne qui nous a servis, nous servait en double (elle entendait mal 🤔). Nous avons essayé un gâteau aux pommes , à 1£. Nous l'avons retrouvé par 4, en emballage industriel dans la supérette à 100m (pour 1£ les 4). Il était sec. Nous avons aussi pris un scone (et nous en avons eu 2 😅), réchauffés au micro onde, avec une confiture de fraise bas prix, type gelée. Quant au café, il était fait à une machine Nespresso. Préférez la supérette à 100m. Il y a un café meilleur, et le choix dans les gâteaux. Note positive pour la déco des années 70-80.

I had been trying to catch this little café open for about a year and finally did so this week. Sadly, I was bitterly disappointed with what I found: Although the eating area was clean and tidy, the toilets were rather unpleasant. The gents toilet pan was unclean, with poo smears under the seat and yellow particles at the seat/pan junction. My wife said that the ladies were also in a poor state of cleanliness. We only had tea but although plentiful, it was made from what can only have been the cheapest of catering tea bags. As noted by another reviewer ..."The sole member of staff was a very dour woman who barely spoke...". Had it not been for the appearance of a friendly Australian Motorcyling couple, our visit would have been a totally miserable experience.

Nettes Personal, spartanische Einrichtung, aber ordentliche Auswahl an kleinen Küchlein und Getränken; preiswert; empfehlenswert, da in der weiteren Umgebung nicht gerade viel Einkehrmöglichkeiten vorhanden

Stopped here after walk to smoo cave, cake and coffee and a pot of tea all very nice nothing posh just good wholesome food not overpriced in a very relaxed atmosphere with friendly staff

The White Heather Cafe. Where to start. A must see on the NC500. It would make a halarious fly on the wall documentary. Don't miss this one unless you are easily offended a vagrant or just need a shelter. It is an Unusual experience and looking back I think it was a windup. You will never see anything like it. The service industry has come a long way since the dark ages it's like a living museum. Food basic Customer service Halarious Experience Priceless Monty Python dosnt come close to this one. Seriously you must go and when you leave you will be asking yourself did that just happen. It is the thing that we have talked about the most and if the tears running down my cheeks at dinner were anything to go by it certainly achieved the desired effect.

Situated on the short walk between Smoo Cave and the village of Durness. Ideally if you want a quick drink (hot or cold) and a snack. Limited outside seating and clean but basic. Fantastic views.

I was part of a group of 12 along with our excellent guide and driver. We stopped here for lunch and weren't disappointed. The staff were friendly and efficient, and the place was very clean including the toilets. Although we were a group of 14 our food was produced quickly and was delicious, ranging from fish and chips to salads. A great place to stop for lunch!

The cafe is clean and service welcoming and friendly. They serve a range of casual breakfast and lunch items including rolls, soups, jacket potatoes and other hot dishes. It gives the impression of being somewhere that could be so much better with attention to decoration and ambiance. We called for coffee and a snack hoping for scones or something similar but there was only one scone and three pieces of cake on display which all looked rather tired. Meals are reasonably priced and we would go back and try hot food.

Of all the places we stopped to eat this is by far the worst - Coffee was luke warm and tasteless, Soup was little more than cup full in a very small soup plate and all in all very poor value for money

Called in for a late lunch while cycling the North Highlands. Simple menu of good wholesome food. The home made soup is a must.

Paramos aquí para un almuerzo muy tarde 3 [. 50:00 pm]

Une petite étape lors d'une journée très pluvieuse. Une soupe maison délicieuse qui nous a redonné de l'énergie pour le reste de la journée. Cadre simple et vrai.

Popped in for breakfast, didn't expect 5 star as the exterior is far from attractive, but with little else serving breakfast in Durness beggars can't be choosers. It was awful. Grubby and untidy. My husband had a cooked breakfast, which was edible but stingy. My daughter had a flavourless overcooked bacon roll. I asked for toast and jam and got two slices of bread, one brown one white and a single plastic pot of marmalade - not jam. The coffee was unrecognisable as coffee, more like dishwater and lukewarm. The sole member of staff was a very dour woman who barely spoke, We sat at the tale and she disappeared into the kitchen to prepare stuff. She just plonked everything down in front of us without a word and disappeared again, so we were unable to ask for jam as the menu said or for the coffee to be refreshed. The place also smelt bad inside.

eenvoudig maar een goede B&B; voor een smalle beurs. goede breakfest en er is ook nog een maaltijd te krijgen

El café es bastante para nada ostentoso desde el exterior y el interior es muy sencillo. Es, sin embargo, impecablemente limpio y la señora que nos servía era muy agradable.

Después de un largo viaje de un día, mi marido y yo estaba buscando un lugar para comer el almuerzo. La primera no estaba seguro de si quería comer algo en este lugar. Hay un pequeño lugar de estilo antiguo de la moda. Pedimos pollo con patatas fritas y ensalada. La comida era deliciosa y fresca. Propietario es mujer encantadora. Ella fue muy agradable y pudimos disfrutar de hablar con ella. Fue bien :-).

Un pintoresco café, tenía una buena cerveza y un bollo con crema. bienvenida amable y servicial. Una razonable selección de comida para un pequeño café ...

¡Qué lugar pasteles -deliciosos pasteles encantador, la sopa es precioso y los paninis son de primera clase . Es tan precioso.

Paramos a comer después de visitar Smoo Caves. Estaba lloviendo y no parecía como si estaba abierto pero felizmente. Tuvimos muy sabrosas abadejo ahumado y Spring onion croquetas de pescado con un montón de patatas fritas y una pequeña ensalada. Una gran taza de té. Buena conexión wi-fi y los baños también. Bien vale una visita!

On visiting Durness for first Tim in 38 years, was disappointed to find every where shut till we came across this place certainly takes one back a bit,fell down step into ladies only to find sign on back of door when you close it saying please mind step!. We had soup and toasted sandwich and tea and coffee, you just have to watch the pricing at the end as the soup and sandwich were together but she was trying to price them separately perhaps she just had a bad day it was very quiet.

Я жила в этой гостинице и кафе почти неделю по сложившимся обстоятельствам. Хозяева - пенсионеры, которые живут тут же и ведут дело. Завтрак - очень плотный (до хлопьев я так и не дошла), а сам коттедж расположен в шаговой доступности от пещеры Сму, которая является основной достопримечательностью деревни.

Was hoping this friendly place would still be there when we re visited Durness and were thrilled to see it still open. Love the retro furnishings and it reminds me of a house we had when I was little.The egg and chips are yet to be beaten and can highly recommend.

A selection of cakes and drinks at not unreasonable prices.Basic furnishings but who cares when you are dodging the wind and rain

Look this cafe is like they used to be in the fifties and sixties, but for me to know that my scrambled eggs or poached were coming from the chickens running around outside could not be fresher, and consequently tasted so, making the experience one in which I like to repeat everytime I visit Durness