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Ferry Boat Inn
Known as the FBI, this inn is to Ullapool what the castle is to Edinburgh. The pub’s a little less traditional-looking these days with its bleached wood and nonstained carpet, but it’s still the place where locals and visitors mingle. Some dishes on the menu are a little bland, but a well-run dining room, quality ingredients and great presentation compensate.
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Lade Inn
Callander's best pub isn't in Callander − it's a mile north of town. It does decent, large and popular bar meals, doesn't mind kids, and pulls a good pint (the real ales here are brewed to a house recipe). Next door, the owners run a shop with a dazzling selection of Scottish beers. There's low-key live music here at weekends too, but it shuts early if it's quiet midweek.
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Forth Inn
In the middle of the village, the solid Forth Inn seems to be the lifeblood of the town, with locals and visitors alike queuing up for good, honest pub fare. The tasty bar meals are the best in town. It also provides accommodation and beer, with drinkers spilling outside into the sunny courtyard. Single/double rooms are available for £50/80, but they can be noisy at weekends.
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Old Chain Pier
The delightful Old Chain Pier is an award-winning real ale pub, full of polished wood, brass and nautical paraphernalia and with a brilliant location overlooking the sea. The building was once the 19th-century booking office for steamers across the Firth of Forth (the pier from which it takes its name was washed away in a storm in 1898).
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Catacol Bay Hotel
Catacol Bay Hotel Two miles from Lochranza, this bar does great food. The Sunday buffet for £10 (over 60s – £7) is famous, and the cheery service makes you feel like a local. With its snug bar, sunny beer garden, frequent live music and great beers on tap, it’s the best pub on the island.
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Seamus’s Bar
This place dishes up decent bar meals, including haggis, neeps and tatties, steak and ale pie, and fish pie, and serves real ales from its own microbrewery plus a range of 200 malt whiskies in serried ranks above the bar. As well as the adventure playground outside, there are games, toys and a play area indoors.
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Pierowall Hotel
The heart of this island community, the local pub is famous throughout Orkney for its popular fish and chips – the fish is caught fresh by the hotel’s boats and whatever has turned up in the day’s catch is displayed on the blackboard. There are also some curries available, but the sea is the way to go here.
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Joseph Pearce’s
A traditional Victorian pub that has been remodeled and given a new lease of life by Swedish owners, Pearce’s has become a real hub of the local community, with good food (very family friendly before 5pm), a relaxed atmosphere, and events like Monday night Scrabble games and summer crayfish parties.
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Drift Inn
There are few better places to be on the island on a sunny day than the beer garden at this child-friendly hotel, ploughing your way through an excellent bar meal while gazing over to Holy Island. There are pub faves and genuine Angus beef burgers, with generous portions all round.
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Lock Inn
A superb little pub right on the canal bank, the Lock Inn has a vast range of malt whiskies and a tempting menu of bar meals (served noon to 8pm) that includes Orkney salmon, Highland venison and daily seafood specials; the house speciality is beer-battered haddock and chips.
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Waterline
This chain pub across from the tourist office is soulless, but it’s family friendly, close to the ferry and, for Stranraer, is a decent option for a meal or quiet drink. Good-value burgers, baguettes, pasta dishes, curries and pub faves are dished out all day.
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Dreel Tavern
This charming old pub on the banks of the Dreel Burn has bucket-loads of character and serves reliably tasty bar meals, with excellent handwritten daily specials. Chow down in the outdoor beer garden in summer. There are also some top-quality cask ales here.
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Kings Orchard Brasserie
The Cross Keys Hotel is a renovated 17th-century coaching inn, and the current owners have maintained the tradition of fine hospitality. Kings Orchard Brasserie here knocks together good pub grub, and there's a bar with real ales and live music at weekends.
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McKay’s Hotel
This is the place to go to meet locals and have a big night out. Live music at weekends, weekly karaoke and DJs make this Pitlochry’s most popular. The action moves from the spacious front bar (which serves food) to the boisterous dancefloor out the back.
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Varsity
Attracting the town’s style-cats, this trendy, nouveau bar-café serves cheap food. The décor and furnishings are young at heart, as is the pop music on large TV screens. Pub mains plus hot melts and salads tickle the tastebuds.
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Loch Tummel Inn
This old coaching inn is a snug spot for a decent feed from a menu featuring seafood. The bar is open all day for a leisurely pint in the beer garden overlooking Loch Tummel. The inn is about 3 miles from Queen’s View.
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Hawes Inn
The atmospheric Hawes Inn, famously mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Kidnapped, serves excellent pub grub; it’s opposite the Inchcolm ferry, right beside the railway bridge.
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No 2 Baker Street
Great pub options with a few innovations, such as wild mushroom Wellington (veggie option) or a Caerphilly cheese and leek burger, or crab and coldwater prawn salad. Excellent selection of real ales on tap.
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Ormidale Hotel
This hotel has decent bar food. Dishes change regularly, but there are always some good vegetarian options, and daily specials. Quantities and value-for-money are high, and Arran beers are on tap.
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Glenisle Hotel
Excellent pub food; serves Scottish classics such as Cullen skink (soup made with smoked haddock, potato, onion and milk). Good wine list.
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Lamlash Bay Hotel
Locals love a big meal out here; known for its toothsome pizza and filling Italian-style dishes.
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Portcullis
Built in stone as solid as the castle that it stands below, this former school is just the spot for a pint and a pub lunch after your visit. With bar meals that would have had even William Wallace loosening his belt a couple of notches, a little beer garden, and a cosy buzz indoors, it's well worth a visit; there are also rooms here (single/double £67/87).
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Crown Tavern
Off the main street, the Crowny is a local favourite. It's a highly regarded place that does good bar meals and even better food (pasta, seafood and vegetarian dishes) in the evenings in its restaurant. Try the local trout or the Highlander chicken.
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