The best restaurants serving British food in Orkney Islands Highlands and Islands

Good quality good but not a lot. Had to order more chips.

Great wee place ,just next to Kirkwall Hotel.It belongs to Kirkwall Hotel and breakfast is in main Kirkwall Hotel.Nice and quiet room.

Convenient and central but too expensive for this type of rooms and establishment.

Very disappointing and an experience I will not be repeating. My friend was rudely told the soup wasn't ready, so she settled for a ham sandwich, the ham was razor thin and hardly covered the bread. I asked for a toasted panni and was told it takes 15 mins to heat up the machine, so I settled for a coffee and a doughnut. The cafe was not busy yet the order took over 15 mins to reach the table. The doughnut was quite stale and I left most of it!

absolutely beautiful food, fantastic well organised service and great value for money. They catered for a party of 17 flawlessly. Venue was spotless and classy. We will definitely be going back there again. Thank you 😊

This place having a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, was a nice place to enjoy our breakfast. The service was top-notch. Bacon and burgers were delicious.

Popped into this cafe this morning for a cuppa. It is a community cafe and lovely. The ladies who serve you are very friendly and helpful. Loved their coffee. It was attached to a craft exhibit so easy to access. If in Orkney be sure to pop into this cafe.

There were four of us and we all rated The Merkister highly! Indeed it shared top place of our many dining places during a two week stay in Orkney. The welcome was warm, the service excellent, quiet and gentle and venue pretty amazing. We all ate different dishes and were all 'wowed' by what we selected. The Westray Seafood Parcel for starter was simply amazing and the seafood salad exquisite - as was the monkfish curry! Hopefully the Merkister will be at the top of the dining out list when we return to Orkney - twice - in 2025. Top marks all around.

Great meal last Friday. Menu has plenty of varied choices and when the plates arrived the food was excellently presented. Really nice and friendly staff made it a lovely evening.

The chefs did everything in their power to make our meals and stay a great time. So great, in fact, we had every dinner there after being out during the days sight-seeing!

Popped in for an evening meal. 2 x very tasty burgers and some good beer later we left very happy. It isn't the grandest of places, but it does deliver good food at a fair price. Would definitely return if we were staying longer.

Wonderful service from Sarah for drinks and lunch. Nothing was too much trouble, the menu was adapted to suit us all. 3 diners had fish in various ways and I enjoyed the veggie burger. Beautiful setting, extremely good value for money. Good variety of local drinks

I ate at the restaurant on 2 separate nights, on both nights my main meal was not good. The others present had very good meals however the food that I received was very substandard. The first occasion I had chicken stuffed with haggis, the chicken was dry and over cooked. On the second occasion I had Pasta Carbonara, the pasta was dry, overcooked and inedible. The sauce was tasteless and congealed. As I said my fellow diners really enjoyed there meals, however my experience was not good.

This is a place to avoid at all costs! We questioned the bill as we felt we'd been overcharged and instead of getting a polite explanation, we basically got a load of abuse from the manager!!! And if you're looking for good coffee, seriously don't bother going here.