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Oban Restaurants

Shellfish Bar

1 reviews | Write a review

Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers, service

  • Address
    • Railway Pier Oban
  • Price
    • mains £2-7
  • Hours
    • breakfast & lunch

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Lonely Planet review for Shellfish Bar

If you want to savour superb Scottish seafood without the expense of an upmarket restaurant, head for Oban’s famous seafood stall – it’s the green shack on the quayside near the ferry terminal. Here you can buy fresh and cooked seafood to take away – excellent prawn sandwiches (£2.75), dressed crab (£4.75), and fresh oysters for only 65p each.

 

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    Seafood Shangri-La

    colfrankland recommends this,

    Oban. January. Raining. Really raining. Raining so hard, it drained all colour from what should have been a glorious view of the Isle of Lismore across the water from the harbour. My rucksack feels like lead, my feet are cold, I’ve got a mild headache and I’m hungry. I’m really hungry. I look around for eatery choices and it was looking like I would have to, yet again, squelch my way into another tartan carpeted cliché restaurant for yet another Rob Roy set menu for one.

    Shuffling my leaden feet around the corner to have a look at the car ferry just arriving at the quayside, I see a shack. A little green shack. A little green shack that sells seafood – the kind of seafood that fancy restaurants can only dream of serving.

    Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to Oban’s little green seafood shack, otherwise known as the Temple of Seafood Heaven, Seafood Valhalla, Seafood Shangri-La, or Seafood Bliss.

    This place prepares fresh, inexpensive seafood right there in front of you, which has been caught right there in the seas in front of you, and landed right there on the very quay you are stood on. They serve the finest crab, lobster and smoked salmon - the likes of which I have never tasted before in my life. Local shellfish of every description are there in small, cheap portions for you to try. The friendly, chatty staff will make you a fresh seafood sandwich just to your liking while you wait and whatever you decide to buy, it’ll hardly cost you anything.

    I sat down on the bench they provide and tucked in to my purchases. Ok, it was still drizzling rain, but as I munched away an imaginary steel band was playing in my head and my spirits lifted. Come to think of it, my headache had gone too. Touring western Scotland wasn’t that bad after all – in fact, it was great. Thanks, little green seafood shack!

    Good for: atmosphere, food, Solo Travellers, service

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