Bog Myrtle Café
Isle of Skye, Highlands & Islands
A charmingly eclectic bookshop, café and bakery with a vintage vibe – think mismatched furniture, high stools perched at the sea-facing picture window, and retro velvet sofas where you can curl up with a flat white and thumb through the secondhand books. The owners' previous business was the Skye Bakehouse, famous for its sourdough bread and homemade cakes. On offer are warming bowls of soup (spicy Moroccan harira, say) as well as chunky sourdough sandwiches – the Scottish 'Reuben' perhaps, filled with Great Glen venison salami and Comté cheese. Also look out for unusual blackboard specials such as Burmese chicken curry with lemongrass and jasmine rice.
