Back in June, we reported how a beautiful restaurant on the shores of Loch Fyne - worth a day trip from Glasgow - had been crowned the best in Scotland.
The National Restaurant Awards named Inver as the 23rd best restaurant in the whole of the UK, rubbing shoulders with high-end eateries in London.
The husband-and-wife-run food spot, which shines a light on local seasonal produce including seafood and game, has previously been heralded by the Michelin Guide for being one of the UK's most sustainable restaurants, becoming one of the first to win the Michelin Green Star award.
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Other accolades include Inver chef Pamela Brunton - who has the likes of Noma in Copenhagen on her CV - being named Chef of the Year by The Good Food Guide in 2020 and The Hospitality Awards deeming it Scotland's Restaurant of the Year in 2016/17.
The most recent of many prizes saw National Restaurant Awards judges hail the lochside haven for its "emphatic celebration of Scotland’s larder that displays great reverence to the provenance and quality of its local ingredients."
Their regularly rotated seasonal menu includes the likes Loch Creran oysters and horseradish, Loch Fyne langoustines and rapeseed mayo with sourdough bread and monkfish cooked over coals , with crispy dabberlocks and grilled kumquat.
And now Inver has received further high prise - after being included in a luxury travel mag's list of the 'the best restaurants-with-rooms in the UK'.
The Conde Nast article, which features food spots from the likes of Yorkshire, Kent and Cumbria - including the revered L'Enclume - said of Inver: "Since 2015 a young couple has been renovating, reimagining and running the Inver – moving from Mull with their vinyl and pans and books, some of which fill the shelves and ledges at the entrance to the restaurant.
"There are four en-suite bothys for restaurant guests that sit on a promontory over a little bridge, each made from yellow Scottish larch and blonde birch that looks like it’s been coaxed into the shape of cresting waves.
"At lunchtime on a clement day walkers and visitors sit outside the restaurant with their dogs, eating fresh crab and bread, the 18th-century ‘new’ Castle Lachlan just beyond in a field plump with high grass, its white stones glimmering like something from a Ladybird book of clans and maidens.
"The restaurant in the evenings takes on a sweet glamour, with a fire in the stove, diners occasionally getting up to flick through records and stick something on the turntable, while over at the ruins, in the gathering darkness, an osprey is so still and watchful he seems to be praying."
Located in the remote village of Strathlachlan, this one-of-a-kind restaurant is less than an hour and 45 minute drive from Glasgow - or you could take the ferry route - and it's very much worth taking a visit to.
For everything Conde Nast said about Inver and to see their article in full, you can visit their website here.
To find out more about the restaurant and rooms and for pricing, you can visit their website here.
