Skipness Seafood Cabin

A beautiful drive up the coast from Campbeltown. There is a smokehouse on the property where they smoke and preserve local salmon. The food is superb and can be quite busy. After your meal you can take a stroll through the Skipness Castle. Also when the smokehouse store is open stop in to buy some delicious food stuffs.

Highly recommend! We took the short scenic drive from Tarbert to Skipness and it was well worth it, what a find the Skipness Seafood Cabin is. Stunning location, we were fortunate it was a sunny day and we could enjoy their outdoor seating. The staff were all polite, friendly and a joy to interact with. Service was great overall. And the food was just fantastic. Well presented, fresh and delicious, good value for money too. After a few dining disappointments on this trip, with poor service, low quality food and over pricing, it was refreshing to find a place that showed real thought and care about their business. Quite frankly we cannot understand why places like this are the exception and not the norm? We enjoyed the oysters and crab salad. Dating back to the 1200’s, Skipness Castle is right next door and well worth a walk around. A short stroll along the shore will take you to St Brendan’s Chapel, also worth a look. All in all a fabulous day out.

The location is simply stunning. Had the Seafood Platter and it was excellent but also extremely good value. There is plenty of indoor seating in the extension to the Manor house. Staff are lovely.

A lovely eatery, with stunning views of Arran & a historic castle! The seafood was delicious, the staff were lovely, friendly & had a warm welcome!

Wonderful dog friendly seafood (no meat) restaurant. Plenty of high chairs for kids and great views of Skipness Castle, the Isle of Arran and the Kilbrannan Sound.

Great seafood as always , and good weather to sit and enjoy the outdoors , we cut our visit very tight to catch the ferry and the staff were just great and provided us with a box to take away !!

Absolutely delicious seafood. Fresh and very tasty. The seafood platter was amazing and it came with a dish of muscles in garlic and butter that melted in your mouth. And I've become an oyster fan after visiting. The staff where very friendly and once you received the food to the table they left you in peace to enjoy it at your own leasure. Thank you for making our visit a very pleasant day and a brilliant memory for our holiday.

What a wonderful find. The views are stunning with the castle behind and Aaron across the water..then the food...what can I say..the best seafood so far of our trip around Scotland. Very fresh and tasty. Would definitely recommend.

The setting is absolutely fabulous, the food delicious and the service very friendly. An absolute must on a nice day

This little spot off the beaten path near the ferry is an absolute must! While heading over to the ferry, we were looking for a place to have lunch and nothing seemed to be open. Came across this and was a little skeptical on the location alone, but it showed open so we went for it and boy was it worth it! Driving out to a castle ruin, the cabin is just off the water looking to the west with free-air tables and farm next to. All the seafood is freshly caught and prepared to order, and absolutely amazing. When in Scotland, mussels are an absolute must! We had the full seafood platter plus the mussels and we all wanted to eat more and more. If we didn't have to catch the ferry to Islay, we could have easily stayed for a second helping and enjoyed the view and laid back atmosphere. The staff is friendly and wonderful and it's just a picturesque place to eat.

The Seafood Cabin has got to be in your top ten list of places to visit before you die! As you walk to The sleepy remote village of Skipness down a remote single track road you may start to give up thinking there cant be anything much beyond. Then you turn a corner and the point of what feels like the end of the beautiful earth and you will join maybe 100 other lucky people at picnic tables in the grounds of Skipness house, surrounded by farm animals and a stunning view of The Isle of Arran, dining on huge platters of seafood dripping in garlic butter, bread and good wine finishing with great coffee and homemade orange cake. Very reasonably priced! Its pretty amazing! Just go....

Spent a purely fantastic afternoon here eating a wonderful selection of fresh seafood and wandering the grounds of Skipness Castle. Good food, good beer, and a beautiful location. If you are in the area, do not miss this! The only qualm I could mention would be that the foul weather seating looked a bit tight and dingy, but in anything other than a gale, I'd recommend a visit.