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Aim for the Secret Garden room to experience the Witchery at its romantic best. Excels at dishes with a rural flavour: honey-roasted duck, terrines of venison and pheasant.

You don’t establish a restaurant in the remotest corner of Skye, win every award going and continue to run it to wild acclaim for 20 years without doing something right. Shirley and Eddy Spear do it perfectly in this old croft house, presenting local, fresh, simple, delicious food, cooked superbly. Make sure you book – an international trail leads here (see Three Chimneys) .

Shirley and Eddie Spear have been enhancing their international reputation for 20 years in this sublime cottage restaurant (see Three Chimneys) .

“Olde worlde” atmosphere and a bold menu of unpretentious food with four different vegetarian dishes daily.

Old-world inn by the famous “Bridge over the Atlantic”. Historic and wonderful, you still expect pirates to breeze in. Real ale and delicious pub grub.

A characterful old hotel, the low prices of which belie the quality of exotic Highland fare served. The best of local produce is used with imagination and flair.

On a cobbled road in the West End stands this home to 30 years of culinary excellence. Always a champion of Scottish produce, this is Glasgow at its most endearing.

Family-run village pub, full of character and homeliness – and terrific food. People travel far to eat here; top marks for value.

The meat of wild red deer, dark and full-flavoured. It’s served as a steak or cut into collops (slices of roast meat).

In this renovated old mill, combine the visual delights of the Bonhoga Gallery with delectable snacks: marinated herring, smoked salmon, organic quiches – it’s all praiseworthy.