Fiona's Isle of Harris guidebook
Food Scene
Skoon Gallery
Excellent coffee and scones with cream and jam
Hotel Hebrides
Pier RoadDecent food, a nice bar and excellent wifi
North Harbour Bistro
Excellent seafood in a beautiful harbourside location.
With locally caught seafood cooked up by the fisherman's wife, this is a popular spot with locals and visitors alike.
15 locals recommend
Taste n Sea
A859With locally caught seafood cooked up by the fisherman's wife, this is a popular spot with locals and visitors alike.
Open from early in the morning, this is a great place to pick up a breakfast roll and a tea or coffee if you are taking the ferry over to Berneray.
9 locals recommend
Butty Bus
Pier RoadOpen from early in the morning, this is a great place to pick up a breakfast roll and a tea or coffee if you are taking the ferry over to Berneray.
Take a tour then visit the shop. Stock up on Isle of Harris gin then enjoy excellent soup and cakes in the cafe.
48 locals recommend
Isle of Harris Distillery
Take a tour then visit the shop. Stock up on Isle of Harris gin then enjoy excellent soup and cakes in the cafe.
Excellent restaurant in Stornoway featuring local produce and a good wine list.
28 locals recommend
Digby Chick
5 Bank StreetExcellent restaurant in Stornoway featuring local produce and a good wine list.
Temple Cafe
22 NorthtonA popular cafe in South Harris offering excellent lunches and cakes.
Excellent bar and restaurant in South Harris with local seafood.
9 locals recommend
The Anchorage Restaurant, Cafe & Bar
Excellent bar and restaurant in South Harris with local seafood.
Excellent seafood restaurant in a caravan. Takeaway mussels, lobster, crab and so on.
6 locals recommend
Sam’s Seafood Shack
Excellent seafood restaurant in a caravan. Takeaway mussels, lobster, crab and so on.
Croft36
36 NorthtonAn excellent phone-ahead takeaway food service in South Harris.
The Machair Kitchen
A good dining option on West Harris with sea views.
Arts & Culture
Hebscape Gallery
Beautiful photographs - plus excellent coffee and food
A lovely modern arts centre with interesting events, a good café and an excellent gift shop
53 locals recommend
An Lanntair
Kenneth StreetA lovely modern arts centre with interesting events, a good café and an excellent gift shop
Ceramics by Nikolai Globe and beautiful black and white photographs by Beka Globe displayed in a converted mission house.
8 locals recommend
The Mission House Studio Ltd
Ceramics by Nikolai Globe and beautiful black and white photographs by Beka Globe displayed in a converted mission house.
Events and exhibitions in a new centre in West Harris with spectacular views and a range of small artist studios.
11 locals recommend
Talla na Mara
Events and exhibitions in a new centre in West Harris with spectacular views and a range of small artist studios.
Drinks & Nightlife
Harris Hotel
Scott RoadCosy bar and very good meals
A pleasant place for a drink in Stornoway with bar food and an attached restaurant.
20 locals recommend
HS-1 Cafe Bar
Cromwell StreetA pleasant place for a drink in Stornoway with bar food and an attached restaurant.
McNeill’s
11 Cromwell StA favourite local pub in Stornoway that serves Harris gin.
Shopping
Excellent selection of tweeds to buy by length plus a range of tweedy and other gifts
18 locals recommend
Harris Tweed Isle Of Harris Shop
Excellent selection of tweeds to buy by length plus a range of tweedy and other gifts
Harris Tweed and Knit Wear
Good-quality tweed garments.
Essence of Harris
Pier RoadSented candles and gifts.
Need some harissa? Quinoa? A special bottle of wine. This well-stock delicatessen in Stornoway is the place to look.
15 locals recommend
The Good Food Boutique
59-61 Cromwell StNeed some harissa? Quinoa? A special bottle of wine. This well-stock delicatessen in Stornoway is the place to look.
Local supermarket with an award-winning butcher's counter. Harris and Stornoway black pudding, venison in season and a small selection of fresh and smoked fish.
A D Munro
Main StreetLocal supermarket with an award-winning butcher's counter. Harris and Stornoway black pudding, venison in season and a small selection of fresh and smoked fish.
Neighborhoods
Luskentyre
Beautiful, long beach with amazing views on to the Harris hills.
Beautiful beach, views on to the island of Scarp and great walks round the coast for fit walkers. A visitor centre offers toilets, showers and an indoor picnicking areas.
9 locals recommend
Hushinish
Beautiful beach, views on to the island of Scarp and great walks round the coast for fit walkers. A visitor centre offers toilets, showers and an indoor picnicking areas.
The last place in the UK to be connected by road, Rhenigidale is a fascinating village with a good pebble beach for launching kayaks and excellent coastal walks nearby.
Rhenigidale
The last place in the UK to be connected by road, Rhenigidale is a fascinating village with a good pebble beach for launching kayaks and excellent coastal walks nearby.
Ardroil beach and the surrounding area of Uig on West Lewis are incredibly beautiful and well worth a visit.
8 locals recommend
Ardroil
Ardroil beach and the surrounding area of Uig on West Lewis are incredibly beautiful and well worth a visit.
Sightseeing
A beautifully preserved mediaeval church built by the Macleods of Harris with extraordinary wall carvings.
23 locals recommend
St Clement's Church
A859A beautifully preserved mediaeval church built by the Macleods of Harris with extraordinary wall carvings.
If you are visiting Harris and Lewis, it would be a crime to miss the amazing neolithic standing stones at Callanish.
81 locals recommend
Callanish Standing Stones
If you are visiting Harris and Lewis, it would be a crime to miss the amazing neolithic standing stones at Callanish.
This is the best preserved broch in Scotland and well worth a visit.
28 locals recommend
Dun Carloway Broch
Lewis and Harris IslandThis is the best preserved broch in Scotland and well worth a visit.
Find out what it was like to live in a blackhouse at this fascinating museum.
36 locals recommend
The Blackhouse, Arnol
Find out what it was like to live in a blackhouse at this fascinating museum.