West Highlands

The Whitehouse Restaurant, Lochaline, Argyll Sarah Jones and Jane Stuart- Smith, who are supporters of the Slow Food Movement, created this restaurant in 2003—and it’s just been voted Scotland’s favourite local restaurant in The Good Food Guide awards. Everything that’s served at The Whitehouse is locally sourced, including freshly baked bread plus vegetables from a garden behind the restaurant. Specialities include Lochaline langoustines and Morvern stag’s liver with Tobermory whisky (in season). Open Easter to October, Tuesday to Saturday. How to get there By seaplane, yacht, Cal Mac Ferry (20 minutes from Mull) or, from the mainland, it’s a long drive over the bleakly beautiful Morvern peninsula from Fort William via the Corran Ferry across Loch Linnhe Remoteness rating 8

(01967 421777; http://thewhitehouserestaurant.co.uk)

Gille Brighde Café and Restaurant, The Old Schoolhouse, Lower Diabaig, by Torridon, Wester Ross

Situated on the shore of Loch Torridon in Wester Ross, it was voted Highlands and Islands’ Best Eatery in 2015. Best dishes include wild steak venison with sweet-root mash and roast line-caught fish, plus it has a fantastic range of ales and ciders— and an excellent maltwhisky shelf. Open Wednesdays to Sundays, but closed from August 22– 30 this year. How to get there A two-hour drive northwest from Inverness, via Achnasheen and Kinlochewe, from where you take the exhilarating 10-mile road to Diabaig Remoteness rating 8

(01445 790245; www.gille-brighde.com)