The Skerries Restaurant — Restaurant in Scotland

We visited Skerries for the first time this year as regular visitors to Orkney, as part of our mission to try some more restaurants! After reading some reviews, we booked Skerries expecting it to be on par with The Foveran. In my opinion I’m afraid the two are not comparable, but we had great service and generally a good time.

Skerries does a fantastic cullen skink which I’d recommend trying to start. The regular menu has a small choice of typical pub food. The specials are more appealing, although a few were slightly odd combinations and a bit overpriced. Generally the food was good, but not the best I’ve had. The restaurant itself has great views of the island through the enormous glass windows, although the dining room does give off conference room vibes.

All in all, we had a good time at Skerries. Would I go again? Probably not, but it wasn’t bad...

The food is really excellent, great local produce, prepared fantastically well. The soup of the day is always a highlight (last year my husband was raving about the lentil soup for months, but yesterday's chicken and sweetcorn probably beat it!). But the best thing about it, really, are the staff - so kind and nice, doing everything they can to make everyone feel welcome and ensuring they have all they need. How they can muster up the patience and kindness after 18 long Covid months, I have no idea, but they do - thanks so much, you made it a lovely evening! P.S. I just read through some of the previous review and wanted to clarify that if there ever was a policy of no sauce with steak in the bar, that is no longer the case. We ate in the bar and both had steak, with a choice of peppercorn, whiskey or roquefort sauce... (and it...

The place is OK, but the food was nothing special. The view and the grounds were lovely. Personally I think the waitress needs to relax, she was good at her job but interacting with the customer or even a smile wouldn't have gone a miss. Also we were asked if we wanted anything else, to which I replied we were OK and could we have the bill, then one of our party decided she wanted a coffee, she was told to order it in the bar next door has they wanted the table back. I'm also a bit confused to why the background music was a local radio station. I've known cafes to play radios but not restaurants. The prices aren't cheap, and for the £200 we spent, value for money 'I wouldn't be...