Julia's The Shed — Restaurant in Scotland

Bad experience, very rude woman who served us at the counter which seems to be rubbing off on the other stressed members of staff. Rude, blunt and unfriendly - half of the stuff I'd tried to order was sold out (at 1.00pm?), the three vegetarian options and macaroni cheese. I'm normally very passive aggressive and would have just shrugged off it as a bad day but when the same woman was rude to my parents ordering their lunch I decided not to order any meals for ourselves and just get a coffee and tray bake - we'd eat somewhere else. It's a shame, the food my parents had was not bad, the coffee and tea was nice and the traybake was nice - there's no need for the attitude, regardless of how busy or how stressed you are. I get you're prone to an entire ship emptying out into your cafe, but if you're not nice to your customers, they won't come back (or leave a bad review on here) We returned to Stromness for another couple of days and...

Possibly the worst ice cream I have ever had. It said it was luxury ice cream but had the texture of sand. Possibly a vintage of '24 in a faulty freezer. I felt a bit sorry for the young girl serving as she was the only one serving on a busy day but as the ice cream was completely inedible I asked for a refund. She seemed surprised and the dragon at the back was very adamant that they wouldn't. This place is in a great position but there are quite a few other places along the main street that might be better. Unlikely as it is that I will come back to Stromness obviously I won't be...

I had a crab roll and a coffee. The crab roll was OK, but was served on white bread and had a lot of iceberg lettuce in it. Brown bread would have been so much better, and almost any other lettuce...

The service was really disorganised. I sat outside, waited, was called to pick up my coffee from the cash desk, then I had to go back again when the roll was ready.

The coffee beans were freshly ground. So why did the coffee taste like ditch water? I didn't drink it.

There is nowhere to sit indoors. So when the weather is poor, make a dash for the ferry...