I'm not a "foodie". I like eating as much as the average mammal. But unlike most, I'm not on the brink of starvation, so eating is not a major focus of my life. So I'd never sail to a remote isle in the Inner Hebrides just to eat at a fancy restaurant like Café Canna. But the idea of sailing to a remote island *does* intrigue me - and I like the perverse idea of a restaurant that's really hard to reach.

It's probably enough to just read about it while I stay home and eat a banana for breakfast:

"The next morning we left the shelter of the bay and forged into a far less hospitable ocean – not quite bad tempered, but not far off. “Lumpy,” said Watson, who never seemed to run out of words to describe the sea: pitchy, squally, swirly. Passing the moleskin-grey volcanic peaks of Rum, one of the Small Isles, on our starboard side, the boat lolloped towards another, Canna, where we went ashore and hiked to its eastern tip to watch puffins before looping back to the bay for a beer at Café Canna, a tiny, remote restaurant that draws sailors from across the archipelago."

That's Alexander Barlow from his decadent tale of sailing the Inner Hebrides, eating and drinking:

https://www.cntraveller.com/article/sailing-through-inner-hebrides

Here is Café Canna's website:

https://www.cafecanna.co.uk/

Even better may be the most remote pub in the mainland of Scotland, or for that matter the UK. Read on, my friend....

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@johncarlosbaez a while ago I cycled the north coast 500 - a route around the north of Scotland - which includes going over the Bealach na Ba, a steep, narrow climb over one of the highest passes in Scotland to the village of Applecross and the inn there where I hoped to eat. It's pretty remote.

https://applecrossinn.co.uk/

It was mobbed with people off boats. I guess that kind of thing is more popular than you'd think.

Home - Applecross Inn

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Applecross Inn -
@bazzargh - that sounds like a great adventure. So you didn't book ahead of time? Did you not manage to get in? 😢

@johncarlosbaez I didn't book ahead, no; on the bike with the wee tent I'm never sure how many or few miles I'll be going depending on the weather and my legs; I carry some emergency food just in case.

However, a table freed up and I was told I could sit if I would be out in 30 mins or so, that suited me-I think I wolfed down the haddock&chips and was off again.

But the food highlight of the trip for me were the pies at Lochinver Larder https://www.lochinverlarder.com/

Lochinver Larder - Pie shop in the heart of the Scottish Highlands

Our Lochinver pie shop has been baking pies since 1986 and are so popular that they are delivered straight from our larder to yours through Pies by Post Restaurant on NC500 Lochinver restaurants