Planning ahead for your meals.

I am the planniest planner you ever did see. It’s in my DNA. So I’ve been rather perturbed by the amount of  grumblings and mumblings about people potentially starving to death on their two day visit to Skye. I know grumbling is what social media is for but honestly it’s all so unnecessary.

Here’s a couple of salutary tales:

Tale 1: it was my birthday recently. Not a big birthday (that’s next year) but I informed Johnny about a month before that he was in charge of marking the event. Realising this was quite important, possibly a matter of life and death, he was straight onto booking us a nice dinner in Portree. Not the *fancy fancy* places, it was several months late for that, but a very nice restaurant with an excellent wine list. Now I think that your holiday to Skye is a very important event for you so I would assume that booking places in advance, if that’s what matters to you, would make a lot of sense.

I didn’t take any pictures of my food but here’s the kilt KiltQuine made me as my birthday gift from Johnny. I may blog about it next time (in my total failure of consistency)

Tale 2. We recently found ourselves staying the night in Dunfermline on the way back from a trip. It was a Friday night and I really wanted to eat at an Indian restaurant I had heard great reviews about. I phoned up about 4pm. Could I get a table? Of course not. Or in fact anywhere else. We landed up just swerving into Nandos (love a Great Imitator burger) before that too totally filled up by 6pm. Now Dunfermline is a busy, bustling city with countless restaurants – if I can’t get booked in for dinner there with a couple of hours notice then it’s unlikely to work in Portree…

What we do to help:

+ when you book we immediately send you an as-up-to-date-as-we-can list of restaurants, including which you can book and which are walk-in. We can help you plan your food around your itinerary. So if you’re having a light breakfast before exploring the peninsula then maybe Cafe Cuil for brunch would work for you.

+ we offer you soup and sandwiches on the day of your arrival. Tasty homemade soup and your choice from delicious options such as home roasted ham, homemade beetroot hummus and tuna mayonnaise. So you don’t have to go out again in the evening if you  want to explore the beautiful local walks, nap in front of the fire/in the sunshine, or have a beer.

Here’s some ham, just out of the oven, ready to become Eggs Benedict or a ham salad sandwich.

+ there’s a refrigerator and a microwave in the guest dining room. We have a list of shops on the island where you can buy things for a picnic dinner and we’re usually able to pop things in the oven in our kitchen with notice that morning.

+ there’s a list of food trucks and takeaways in the room folder so you can grab something on the go. From the usual fish and chips to squat lobster butties in Elgol, to fabulous Indian takeout in Staffin. Our favourite pizza place LAS does great takeaway –  as do several other places (shout out to Pizza in the Skye). Here we all are at the beginning of the season celebrating our friendship.

+ if you have the capacity and commitment you could fill yourself up at breakfast and not need to eat again until supper time

 

So you’ll never need to  go hungry in Skye, whether you’re a freestyler, a last minute Liusaidh, or someone whose Google calendar is overflowing with events.  Just a little forward planning will work wonders. And after all, you have the planniest planner on your team. Next blog will be about Inverness. Who knows when tho…..