Distillery Canteen

Outer Hebrides


The cafe at the Isle of Harris Distillery, with its communal, scrubbed-timber tables and chunky benches, is bright and convivial. The menu is not extensive – a choice of soups, cakes, home-baked bread, smoked salmon and crowdie (Scottish cream cheese) – but the quality of the food shines brightly, most of it sourced directly from Harris.


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