The Boathouse Lochside - Highland

Beautiful views- but that’s all. The food was atrocious, very expensive £21.00) for a lamb dish, £17) for fish and chips. Lentil soup £6.50). These prices are absolutely justified for the setting, IF the food was fresh and homemade. All I can say is that ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING was out of the freezer. Rolls with soup were the par baked ones- nothing wrong with that if it was a cheaper offering. Onion rings frozen, fish, chicken burger, all dishes served with limp and sad skinny fries- well, just mush fries shapes… Also, all drinks served in pint size plastic cups. Please think twice.

We arrived to an almost empty restaurant, “greeted” by a young woman who boredly handed me the menus and told us to sit where we wanted. The server seemed rushed off his feet, despite the lack of customers. Two of us had fish and chips and one had a chicken kebab. The grilled chicken was tasty, the battered haddock was… adequate. The chips were pretty terrible. There is a great view. I wont be back.

So disappointed. Came here a long time ago and it was a sweet little cafe with good food and lovely service. Unfortunately it has gone so far downhill that I feel the need to warn others about it. Firstly staff on their phones constantly and absolutely no atmosphere to the restaurant. The main issue is the food. Daylight robbery it should be called. £15 for a McDonald’s standard burger, in fact McDonald’s is fresher! The smallest bit of cheese is thrown on the super flat and frozen patty that tastes like it’s been at the bottom of the packet for a long time. Fish was okay for a frozen slab but like the burger, it was just thrown on the cheap looking plate. I hardly ever leave bad reviews but I’m just so shocked at how awful this place has become. The “spectacular view” that is their claim to fame will not lesson the blow of getting your bill or lesson the foul taste left by the food. Staff training and a competent chef team is needed. It’s a good job they serve mints on exit.

The location is really great on the Loch Ness: pic-nic tables outside are certainly the best choice here, if weather enables. The place is obviously owned by a group of Turkish people, some of them struggling with speaking English. The staff is not particularly kind, but they care about what customers say. The food is rather good, and they really tried to Scottish-ize their menu (I believe they had no choice, as most of the customers are tourists looking for local food).

Booked the restaurant for family of 4 adults and one child, but did not realise that it really was more of a Turkish menu with some Scottish favourites thrown in. Service was not particularly good, we had to ask for drinks and waiter said , yes when I 've finished cleaning a table? Also had to ask for the bill at the end. No atmosphere and staff were bit stilted and not sure if they really understood us? It was more of a refectory type dining and not great ambience. Limited views out onto the loch because of the small boat house type windows, but better than no windows as bits of the views were great. You would be lucky to get a table with one of the long windows but you can 't have everything? The location is just amazing with pic nic tables outside. Not a lot of choice on the menu and I settled for the lamb casserole which was good but not a lot of it. This came with tzatziki, flat bread and rice, which I enjoyed it all. Others had the mixed and chicken kebabs and the meat to me looked totally dried up, so glad I didn 't order them? My Granddaughter got the cheesy macaroni and it looked and tasted the best! My husband ended up with an upset tummy and said that it was something on the salad or one of the sauces, so it was not good for him? Totally over priced and would only come back here for the location and have a coffee?