Highland Spice — Restaurant in Scotland

Highland Hidden Gem! It’s your final night in the Highlands of Scotland, and you've just run out gas for your camp stove, what do you do?

Well, if you're anywhere near the lovely little town of Dornoch, you should definitely stop by Highland Spice!!!

Having been turned away by a local pub-restaurant who were "Fully booked" (despite only one table being occupied?!), we decided to hunt down this hidden Highland gem. It's tucked away a few mins walk from the main road, behind the big hotel and houses and just around the corner from student accommodation (big win for the students)!

The proprietor was warm and welcoming, showing us to a table by the window. The furnishings were tasteful and clean, and we were soon perusing a menu that was both comprehensive and detailed - something sadly lacking in most Indian restaurants. Our order was taken with efficiency and courtesy, and within no time at all we were tucking in to our delicious starters!

Two of us had the Chicken Pakora, with obligatory poppadoms and sauce tray. This was then followed by a mains of the sumptuously rich Makhani, full of flavour and a delight on the palate. Not being one for rice, this was paired with a side bowl of perfectly fried golden chips, both of which were shamefully left unfinished due to eyes being bigger than belly!

As someone who has to be careful around spicy foods, I'm quite particular about Indian restaurants, and this is definitely in my top 2! It's just a shame it's so far from home!

Massive thanks to the host and chef, who could not do more for us and provided some delicious food to a trio of...

Very disapointed with this so called Indian carryout eatery ,were do I start ?after putting up with the very sarcastic comments of the guy behind the counter who obviously has never heard of customer care, I picked up my overpriced carry out meal on returning to my accomadation my wife and I decided to tuck into our overpriced starter of chicken pakora that was actually chicken deep fried in thick thick batter more of a chicken ball that would be served in a chinese eatery,from that point the meal got steadly worse chicken tikka masala that was more like decicated coconut in tomato soup yuk! and a dish of thick yogurty mush with apple ,banana and lychee fruit the whole lot being eventually binned as our pallets are more accustomed to real Indian cuisine and not pretend rubbish ,as the saying goes you learn from your mistakes and this visit to this so called Indian was one big over priced camouflage of Indian...

Staying up in Dornoch for a few days golf at Dornoch Castle Hotel and visited this restuarant which is only a minutes walk from there (out of rear entrance of the Castle in the industrial estate) The menu was really varied with lots of tasty looking dishes, some which I hadn’t heard of , my husband even had a prawn cocktail to start, not traditionally an Indian dish but really good.The Indian main courses were great, the rices particularly good. Wine list is good also, had a lovely bottle of Chablis.Service was great and the owner very friendly. The next evening we had fish and chips from the chippy next door (owned by the same person) This had terrible reviews but the owner assured us that there was now a new chef and it was much better.He was right, the fish was cooked to perfection with lovely light batter and the chips were great. Would really...