This place is incredible. My wife and were here on an 08/21/23 (as part of our honeymoon trip--we…read moreare from Boston USA). It was a stormy day with high winds and raining heavily. we had to wait about 30 minutes to get in. the wait was every bit worth it. My wife got a scallop dish and I got a haddock. The scallop dish (there were at least 10 large pieces cooked in butter) is probably the best food we have ever had. Maybe being super hungry and waiting outside in crazy conditions, then getting inside a nice, warm, and cozy place was part of why the food tasted better but I highly recommend this place. FYI, this place doesn't take reservations. It makes sense because it's a small place and if someone doesn't show up, a table goes wasted.

Our favorite meal we had while in Scotland. Great view of the harbor and right in the main town…read moresquare. We liked the warm environment and welcoming service from the staff. The food was excellent, perfect if you are looking for a classic seafood dinner or want to try something new! Loved it!!

Holy moly! This place has awesome food. Some really great combinations of flavors. We had the…read moresmoked salmon with cream fraiche (amazing!) and grilled goat cheese (amazing!). It's an unassuming building with a great waitstaff. Be sure to make a reservation, it's tiny and they are popular.

My guide book listed this as one of the best restaurants on the Isle of Skye and my innkeeper…read morequickly agreed. I was expecting a good local seafood restaurant, but this was an excellent dining experience all the way around. It's a small, casual place where you immediately feel welcome. The service was great, but the food was the real standout here; fresh, local ingredients, well-prepared and presented. I started with a mushroom appetizer and followed with a halibut filet served over fettucine with some of the best shrimp I've tasted on the side. Possibly the best meal I had in Scotland.

Very good food - seafood without frills - served in paper trays and only place to sit are picnic…read morebenches in a lean to beside the building. Service is exactly what you expect from a shed. They answer your questions but that's about it. 4 stars because it's what we expected and food was tasty. Minus 1 because of limited gluten free options.

Heard and read some good things about this spot. So this time around on Skye we made sure to grab…read moresome lunch here. The last 200m or so is a steeper one-lane road, but not problems here if you just look ahead a bit. The parking lot by the Oyster Shed has limited spaces. Again here...just don't rush - bring some time to either wait for a spot or to park further down and walk up. We got lucky and got a spot. Two RVs parked here too. Almost couldn't get in and out and did hold everybody up - so I wouldn't recommend bringing your RV up here. Inside you order by tablet. It's quite a big space inside the shop. Once you got your food (outside) you can sit down right in front or head around the corner to the big table with some views. We were happy to sit out front though. Ordered two kinds of cooked topped oysters (salmon/seaweed and spicy seaweed chutney), crab legs, a softshell crab and half-a-dozen of regular oysters. The fresh raw oysters were nice and of good quality. The cooked oysters were decent, maybe easier for oyster-beginners since the toppings cover the sea/oyster flavour. The softshell crab was really tasty - but also a bit pricey for our served size. The best item were the crab legs cluster. A good load of legs for little money. Very tasty! All in all a good place to enjoy some seafood. Some items were great, others also very good - but not great. If we come back it would be for the Crab legs...

After we were finished with our activities, we came here for a late lunch. It was quite busy, but…read moreluckily we were seated without much of a wait. We shared two items. We went with the (four) langoustines as a starter and calamari as a main (which comes with a salad and chips). The salad was light and refreshing. The langoustines with garlic butter was yummy as was the crispy calamari. I also eyed our neighboring table's fish & chips. Overall, a nice lunch spot with delicious seafood.

This is recommendations from our host. Own of the best meals I had in Skye. It opens 11-9pm and…read moreseafood is very fresh. We tried scallops and langoustines (I ordered two: garlic and sweet chili sauce). Scallops were very fresh and soft. Sweet chili sauce langoustines were very tasteful. Loved all!

We after hiking Ben Chracaig and Scorrybreac (and in case you do not know this, it's a…read moremoutain--tall, rocky, and when wet, slippery), we decided on Cuchullin dinner. They do not take reservations. When we got there about six, and they had just sat everyone at 5:30, so they said it was about an hour wait. But they have a little bar (!) where we ordered bread and olives and drinks (gin--I don't remember what I had but it was localish and good, and not too sweet). Anna, the bartender was amazing and gave us some great suggestions of what else we may do Skye. They sat us about 20 minutes later. We had the sea bass and gnocchi. It was so so so good! I could eat that sea bass about every day. The service was amazing.

Amazing outstanding. Will do again!! Loved the food, the service and ambience. Worth the wait. Esp…read moremussels!

Excellent food! However, what we were really impressed with was the gentleman who was serving us…read more Assisting tons of tables, extremely kind, and wonderful. We strongly recommend this restaurant... Awesome place!

First, I don't know why anyone would give this place a one star, literally everyone who works there…read moreis so nice and friendly. We walked in a little after 8 PM, we were told to wait outside for a couple of minutes to prepare the table for us, because it's a small restaurant, and we completely understood that. Also, the waitress explained that it's a cash only restaurant, and even offered to allow us to go to the ATM machine after having our dinner, which doesn't really happen in CA due to the eat and ditch. I looked at the specials and the beef and ale Scottish stew was on my "to have" list. The stew was amazing, and my son ordered the salmon and couscous and he enjoyed it too. The ambience was so cute, it's a small and quaint local restaurant that's specialized in seafood, and I highly recommend it to anyone who's visiting the Skye.

I got the special which was duck breast, and it was AMAZING! Best dish I had on my entire 12 day…read moretrip to Scotland! The service was excellent all staff friendly and professional. Timothy was our server for lunch and at the bar earlier in the day, sadly I cannot remember the name of the young lady that served us at dinner time, but she was lovely as well. The restaurant was very nice with a beautiful view of the loch.

Almost everything about our experience at The View was fantastic, except for the view itself and…read moreour initial interaction with the woman who seated us, which was so terrible that it tainted our entire experience there. We had a late reservation on our second night in Portree...we arrived early, planning on having a dram at the adjacent whisky bar while waiting for our table to be available. Our experience at the whisky bar itself was fantastic. The bartender was very knowledgeable in the selection; he guided us as well, and having tasted quite a number of whiskies during our visit, the 2 he served us were easily at the top of our tasting list in all of Scotland. When it came time for our actual restaurant seating time, we headed back to check in, where Angela greeted us and took us to our table. Our seat was in the corner of the restaurant, next to the window, but with a large column blocking our view of Portree. (You know "The View," which the place is named after.) I asked if we could wait for another table to open up. Angela immediately got a frown on her face and responded: "If you want to wait another hour." Those words on their own were hard enough to hear after having already been in the restaurant (at the bar) for over an hour...but the way she said it was snide, mean, and it felt like she was scolding us. And then she said it a second time. It was just one sentence from her...but it made us feel terrible, like we had made some kind of offensive error asking for a different table (with an actual view). We completely understand that sometimes requests are not possible, but surely there could have been a nicer way she could have communicated the answer to us. Maybe "Ahh, I'm so sorry, but all the other tables are booked. It could be up to an hour wait if you want." Angela could have been much kinder, but instead she made us feel like she was doing us a favor by allowing us to be in the restaurant at all. What would have been a 5-star experience overall gets dinged an entire star because of that tiny, terrible reaction with her. Writing this a couple of weeks later, I still can feel the sinking feeling in my stomach after she said what she said the way she said it. Maybe Angela was having a bad day. Maybe she was fed up with customers in general...but that one tiny interaction will stick with us for a long time. Our server was lovely, and the food we got was great. I appreciated having fine-dining vegetarian options. I had the Twice Baked Scottish Cheddar Soufflé. It was light and fluffy and served on a gorgeous bed of different colored tomatoes and lettuce, and topped with pesto. I enjoyed it. My wife got the wedge salad, which was also really good...a full wedge of bib lettuce and a nice dressing...very fresh. She also had scallops as a starter...a cold dish, smoky and tasty. (According to her, I'm a vegetarian.) The bread was cute...a little baked ball...fun to look at, served with a dollop of butter served on a on a stone slab. (Though it was cold on the inside, so wondering if this may have been out of the fridge or freezer for a while.) We saw a couple other tables order chips, and they looked so good we added an order...these were perfect, lightly coated with truffle oil and parmesan...easily the best chips we had in all of Scotland. We finished with cheesecake for dessert. It was topped with raspberries and a raspberry compote. It was served with raspberry sorbet and topped with a wrapped waffle cookie-like topping filled with a delicious chocolate ganache with freeze-dried raspberries sticking out either end. Raspberry-heavy but quite indulgent. We enjoyed the food a lot. Our server was nice and sweet. Our experience at the bar ahead of time was fantastic. The view could have been better based on where we were seated. Unfortunately, the thing that we'll remember the most about our experience here was the egregious interaction with Angela.

Super great prices for quick lunch. Enjoyed the crab claws and chicken wings. The male cook was…read morerough around the edges to such an extent that his demeanor who many would describe as rude & crass was over the top. He told us that if we needed warm crab claws to go next door. Then when asked for soup of the day, we were informed they were out of soup... they just opened! He wasn't being mean - just an odd guy that was busy beyond belief. It was actually funny. I felt like we were in a Seinfeld episode of the Soup-Natzi...or the SNL Samurai- "No Cheeseburger" Skit. Crazy service because as soon as the trains comes into town there are too many patrons for the dining establishments. Anyhows... the food was really good, plentiful and cheap.

We lucked into this place near the water. The food was delicious, and the hosts were warm,…read morefriendly, and hilarious!