The best restaurants serving British food in Highlands and Islands

Lovely café with lovely staff. The food and coffee is excellent, but a little pricey. They have some really nice cakes and pastries also.

Note - now known as Ambrosia Cafe but the receipt still says "Annyas". Stopped by for a quick lunch whilst busy in Inverness. Had the all day breakfast at £7.99 but held the toast and ordered extra bacon and extra egg - for just another 75p. Bargain! Clearly freshly cooked - nice moist tasty sausage, quality bacon and superbly cooked eggs (not overdone nor uncooked). Tasty black pud. Can't fault it. Just the thing to fill a hole - and I always love a good full English (or Scottish!) breakfast.

A lovely restaurant with nice food and lovely helpful staff. A spacious restaurant with great views. On offer was fish and chips, macaroni cheese, steak and mushroom pie, beef and haggis olives.

Nos alojamos cerca y tuvimos un desayuno de muy alta calidad aquí. Excelente desayuno vegetariano más aguacate y huevo en tostadas. Café y zumo también servido por el personal amable. Un hallazgo definitivo en el Howdens Garden Centre.

My wife and I ate in restaurant on Saturday night, the food was amazing, and we both really enjoyed the food, BUT and there is a huge but, we were very disappointed and underwhelmed with the service and ambiance throughout the evening. Firstly, I phoned on Thursday 1st December to book a table for the 10th December at 6.30 pm, I received a phone call on Friday 2nd dec at 7pm saying that we hadn’t turned up for our booking and we were 30 minutes late. After I explained that wasn’t the date we had booked a table for they apologized and would get it sorted. We arrived Saturday at 6.25pm and was shown to our table and asked what we would like to drink. We looked at the drinks menu and I asked for a cider and my Wife asked for a brandy and Diet Coke. Only for the waiter to come back and say “sorry we don’t have any brandy” he then handed over the drinks menu again so my wife then asked for a Captain Morgan’s, only for the waiter to come back to our table to be told “sorry we don’t have that either”. She then ordered a Prosecco Rose, which was ok. We ordered our meal and as I said the food was totally amazing. We ordered our desserts, one for me & one for my wife and a cheese board to share. When the desserts came the waiter said, “ sorry to say but your table is booked for a reset at 8pm, it’s now 8.05, so could you please hurry up and eat your desserts because we need your table it’s our fault but we need the table back”. We were both left shocked and disgusted, never had we been asked this ever in any restaurant. Even though there were free tables across from us. The couple next to us asked, “Did we hear that right? They are asking you to eat up because they need your table? “ My Wife even offered to have the cheese board in the bar area if that would help but I wasn’t happy with this. After hurriedly eating our dessert the waiter came back with the cheeseboard and said “it’s ok we have jiggled the tables around and we don’t need your table now”. Your restaurant is beautifully decorated and food amazing but I have never in my life been so disheartened, angry and left speechless in my life, I would even say I will never tell anyone to book at Orrin because the service is terrible and I for one will not be back. I always leave a large tip when dinning out but, on this instance, I refused to leave a tip because of the poor service we endured. My wife sent a private message to Orrin pointing out the fact the service we were provided was shocking, but they haven’t responded.

Waling round the old naval base we came here to find the temporary exhibition as the visitors centre is shut this season. What is a pub doing shut on a July afternoon?

Lovely cafe inside, great service and cuppas. Lovely clean toilet's! Perfect location in the centre of Tain....

Many recommendations to visit this restaurant, but probably something has changed over time. Food is very average. Haggis just barleys and no taste. Pies with venison and beef was good, but not the food to it's worth coming.

The establishment offers whisky tasting platters for enthusiasts, and the service is friendly and fast. The terrace, which unfortunately overlooks the road, is much nicer than it seems, but the tables are sometimes a little dirty, and it is in full sun in the late afternoon.

Beware!!!! Only serving breakfast if you're lucky. No longer serving lunch or dinner despite website declaring otherwise. No facility to book on line as there are virtually no facilities. Exactly the same scenario with the restaurant at the Premier Inn in Dumfries!!!

Saturday 2nd of November, they decided to shut the restaurant, no head up or anything. Just no meals, only refreshments. Fast forward two weeks. After a 4 hour drive on the Friday, I arrived at 7.05pm. Reception said restaurant were serving until 8.30 and I was OK just to pop over and get a table. So I done that. No tables for the rest of the night. Only the tables near the bar were being used. Rest of the place was empty. Saturday seemed to go without a hitch. Sunday morning, apparently the chef pulled a sickie so there was no hot food other than what you could put through the toaster! The big lad that's in the restaurant is brand new as are some of the other FOH staff but this place need to sort the BOH staff out pronto. Also just a little tip for the servers, from someone who was in hospitality for 18 years, when someone walks in the door and stands waiting to be attended to, give them an acknowledgement. Don't just leave them standing like a spare tw4t.

We were a group of 6 people for dinner and had made reservations for 7:15 PM well in advance. This was verified twice, most recently the morning of our meal. We arrived a few minutes early. When we checked in, we were told there would be a “little wait” for our table and were placed in a small room near the middle of the restaurant. We ordered drinks and then sat there and were completely ignored until we were finally seated at 8:25! We barely got an acknowledgment about the excessively long. wait. After we were seated, we waited about 10 minutes until the waitress came back to take our order. Then we got our appetizers 20 minutes later at 8:55. After our appetizers were finished we then did not get our main courses until 9:45. By the time we finished and waited for the check it was after 10:15. By the time we left, the restaurant was basically empty. The food was really good, but to be there 3 hours simply for an uncomplicated appetizer and main course ruined the experience for us, especially after the seemingly unconcerned attitude of the staff. It seems that if one makes a reservation for a larger group, the restaurant should have planned to have a table available within a reasonable amount of time, but 1:20 minute wait for a reserved table is completely unacceptable!

Absolutely exclusive and brilliant service. The staff Chetan and sheetal were absolutely brilliant. Raashsi the manager was so accommodating ! Excellent service can not fault 👏 well done to the team

Este es un lugar para evitar a toda costa! Cuestionamos la factura porque sentimos que nos habían cobrado de más y en lugar de obtener una explicación educada, ¡básicamente tuvimos un montón de abuso del gerente! Y si estás buscando un buen café, en serio no te molestes en ir aquí.

Very dirty environment. Food served by an unclean looking man. Not very friendly and over priced. No menu available, no prices on show, cash only.