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salad leaves and edible flowers grown just along the road. Add regular evening music gigs
and you can see why this place is a local favourite.
MODERN SCOTTISH
Three Chimneys£££
(
01470-511258;
www.threechimneys.co.uk
; Colbost; 3-course lunch/dinner £37/60;
lunch Mon-Sat mid-MarOct, dinner daily year-round; )
Halfway between Dunvegan
and Waterstein, the Three Chimneys is a superb romantic retreat combining a gourmet res-
taurant in a candlelit crofter's cottage with sumptuous five-star rooms (double £295, din-
ner/B&B per couple £415) in the modern house next door. Book well in advance and note
that children are not welcome in the restaurant in the evenings.
Stein Inn£
(
01470-592362;
www.steininn.co.uk
;
Stein; bar meals £8-12; food noon-4pm &
6-9.30pm Mon-Sat, 12.30-4pm & 6.30-9pm Sun Easter-Oct; )
This old country inn
dates from 1790 and has a handful of bedrooms (per person £37 to £55), all with sea
views, a lively little bar and a delightful beer garden - a real suntrap on warm summer af-
ternoons - beside the loch. The bar serves real ales from the Isle of Skye Brewery and
does an excellent crab sandwich. Food is served in winter too, but call ahead to check.
PUB
SEAFOOD
Lochbay Seafood Restaurant£££
(
01470-592235;
www.lochbay-seafood-restaurant.co.uk
; Stein; mains £14-23, lobster
£30-42; lunch & dinner Tue-Sat; )
Just along the road from the Stein Inn is one of
Skye's most romantic restaurants, a cosy farmhouse kitchen with terracotta tiles and a
wood-burning stove, and a menu that includes most things that either swim in the sea or
live in a shell. Best to book ahead.
Shopping
Dandelion Designs
(
www.dandelion-designs.co.uk
;
Captain's House, Stein; 11am-5pm Easter-Oct)
At
Stein on the Waternish Peninsula, Dandelion Designs is an interesting little gallery with a
good range of colour and monochrome landscape photography, lino prints by Liz Myhill
and a range of handmade arts and crafts.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Shilasdair Yarns
KNITWEAR
