Plockton Hotel

Pub Details

Address
41 Harbour Street
Plockton
Scotland
IV52 8TN
Telephone
(01599) 544274
Opening Times
Weekdays
11am - midnight (11.30 Sat)
Sundays
12.30 - 11

Location

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Lovely views from this family-run loch-side hotel with very good food and real ales; bedrooms Now run by the younger generation, this family-owned hotel is in the centre of a lovely National Trust for Scotland village and part of a long, low terrace of stone-built houses. The comfortably furnished lounge bar has window seats looking out to the boats on the water, as well as antiqued dark red leather seating around neat Regency-style tables on a tartan carpet, three model ships set into the woodwork and partly panelled stone walls. The separate public bar has pool, board games, TV, a games machine and piped music. Cairngorm Trade Winds and the local Plockton Bay on handpump, 25 malt whiskies and several wines by the glass. Most of the comfortable bedrooms (it's worth booking well ahead) are in the adjacent building - one has a balcony and woodburning stove and half of them have extraordinary views over the loch; good breakfasts. Tables in the front garden look out past the village's trademark palm trees and colourfully flowering shrub-lined shore, across the sheltered anchorage to the rugged mountainous surrounds of Loch Carron; a stream runs down the hill into a pond in the attractive back garden. There's a hotel nearby called the Plockton Inn, so don't get the two confused.

Good Pub Guide Food

Especially strong on fresh local seafood, the enjoyable food includes lunchtime sandwiches, whisky pâté with home-made chutney, langoustines, moules marinière, monkfish and pepper brochette, salmon fillet topped with spring onion and chilli, a daily vegetarian dish, beer-battered haddock, venison casserole, and seafood platter.

Bar food times: 12 - 2.15, 6 - 9

Good Pub Information

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (118 votes cast)

Reader Comments

PJBarnett

Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:54:42 am

My wife and I recently stayed in the cottage annexe a few doors down the street (not mentioned in your review). The rooms are somewhat cheaper but ours, while comfortable and clean, was a little tired and would not, in my view, be of a standard to merit a stay award. (We did not see the other rooms which were all full).
Otherwise, we were extremely impressed by quality of the food (award definitely deserved) and the friendly, relaxed atmosphere. It was also a pleasant surprise to find good wines and well-kept local real ales in a Scottish pub as well as well as a decent range of whiskies.