Local Amenities of Glendale, Isle of Skye
The Three Chimneys Restaurant, Colbost
Award-winning, top-quality cuisine. The premier restaurant on Skye but expect to pay premier league prices too (around £150 for dinner for two, with wine). It has 3 AA Rosettes and is consistently ranked among the top 100 restaurants in the UK by Restaurant magazine.
Oisgill Bay and Biod Ban
Fresh Skye seafood is a speciality but lamb, beef, game and a vegetarian option are also on offer. The wine list is extensive and carefully compiled.
Open, for Lunch or Dinner, virtually all year round. Closed Sunday lunch. Also closed at lunchtimes during the Winter months. For more information visit the Three Chimneys own Web-Site. Tel: (01470) 511258.
Ceiteag's Restaurant & Gifts
"Katy's" offers breakfasts, lunches, afternoon tea and evening meals in the heart of the glen. Menus are changed daily.
Gift shop and gallery selling old, local curios, antiques, local craftwork and art, books, prints, cards and gifts, together with a range of alcoholic drinks.
Open 9am to 8pm, 7 days a week. For more details visit Ceiteag's web-site or telephone: (01470) 511398.
Glendale Croft Produce
Happy Hens at Glendale Croft Produce
Glendale's premier supplier of free-range eggs to both locals and holiday-makers alike, with a fully-registered flock of over 40 happy hens that are free-to-roam and lay the most delicious eggs with rich, orange yolks.
They grow and sell a wide range of salads, herbs and vegetables at supermarket prices that are picked freshly to order. Varieties are chosen for maximum flavour and grown usual traditional methods, using only organically approved pest controls and fertilised with seaweed gathered at the shore.
Pre-orders taken from holiday-makers coming to local self-catering cottages. Telephone: (01470) 511354.
Honesty Boxes
You will find a number of croft houses in Glendale selling high-quality, fresh, seasonal, local produce from road-side boxes, including free-range eggs, jams, pickles, chutneys, salads, vegetables and herbs. These taste sensational and are well worth seeking out if you are staying locally or passing through en route to Neist Point.
Glendale Post Office, Lephin
For more information about
the community in Glendale,
visit Terry Wilding's excellent
Glendale Information Web-Site.
Usual postal services, together with a good selection of newspapers and magazines, sweets, drinks, ice creams, gifts, etc. They stock a range of frozen foods, grocery items, maps, books, stationery, etc.
Personal Banking Services (cash withdrawals, cheque/cash deposits, etc.) are available to customers of certain banks, e.g. Smile, Cahoot, The Co-Op, etc. [Read More]
Closed on Sundays.
The Red Roof Café & Gallery
Fantastic lunches of soup, a choice of seafood, meat or cheese platters and delicious home baking set in a lovingly modernised old croft house. All meals are made using the finest local produce.
Proprietors Craig and Elly also do regular evening events with a three course dinner and traditional, live music.
Red Roof - Summer Programme 2012
Open 10am to 5pm, 7 days a week. For more details visit the Red Roof web-site or telephone: (01470) 511766.
Midsummer's Night, Milovaig. 2003.
The Old School Restaurant, Dunvegan
Deservedly popular restaurant, open Mar-December, 7days.
Very high quality, mainly traditional Scottish cuisine. Large A la Carte & children's menu. Small vegetarian menu. Disabled & baby-changing facilities. Tel: (01470) 521421.
Shops and Services in Portree, The Island's Capital
Portree has all of the Island's main shops: chemist, large Co-Op Supermarket and smaller Safeway, gift shops, banks, cinema / theatre, restaurants, take-aways, etc.
The Aros Centre on the outskirts of Portree is worth a visit for its RSPB Sea Eagle information centre, with live video footage from a Sea Eagle nest and a Heronry.
Other Shops & Services in Dunvegan
Dunvegan has an excellent grocers, The Fruit & Nut, a newsagents / village shop, mini market, bakery, hotels, restaurants, fishing tackle/bait shop.
The nearest cash-point is located inside the Fasgadh mini-market (£1.50 charge per withdrawal). The closest petrol station and garage services are also located in Dunvegan.
Recently opened patisserie, Jann's Cakes, sells hand-made cakes, chocolates, breads, sweets, take-away soups and coffees. They certainly aren't cheap but the quality is superb.