A formerly run-down pub at the top of the hill overlooking the harbour, this refurbished dining pub with stylish, highly characterful and generously equipped bedrooms, retains the fun and energy of a popular local, while serving seriously impressive, locally sourced food.

The catch of the day could be Shetland hake in the restaurant or nifty fielding on the sands at this pub-with-rooms overlooking the Firth of Forth, with its own beach cricket team.

Within a medieval castle and Georgian house above the Sound of Mull, this remote restaurant with rooms has four fantastic suites, spectacular views, and no less memorable cooking by chef-proprietor Colin Nicholson.

Former Gleneagles pastry chefs Phillip Skinazi and Andrew Mackay are enthusiastic hands-on owners at this former coaching inn in a conservation village, now an excellent restaurant with stylish, well-equipped rooms.

A single-track road leads to this remote and intimate Skye 'black house', with views towards mountains and the islands of Rum and Eigg, simple, chic bedrooms, and a restaurant serving a four-course set menu showcasing superb island produce.

Award-winning chef Calum Montgomery has transformed a run-down 16th-century hunting lodge into a splendid restaurant with rooms showcasing the produce of his native Skye in exquisitely presented dishes.

Crafted from an 18th-century manse on the waterfront, this restaurant with rooms owned by Robert Hicks and Helen Chalmers is full of charming surprises.

Expect a cheerful welcome at this pub with rooms, which stands by a bridge over the Union Canal in a conservation village.

A dream destination for golfing gourmets, just a 12-minute drive from St Andrews, Geoffrey and Katherine Smeddle's restaurant with rooms holds a Michelin star for Geoffrey's creative menus of ingredients sourced locally from land and sea.

There are shimmering views across Scapa Flow and the Southern Orkney islands from every table in the restaurant at this hotel, which offers a short menu of locally sourced dishes and smart contemporary bedrooms.

In the vast, remote, elemental landscape of Assynt, this 19th-century coaching inn overlooking Loch Glendhu is today a dog-friendly modern hotel with simple, smart bedrooms, and magical vistas from the restaurant, where short menus showcase meat from local crofters and freshly landed seafood.

Decorated in cool Scandi-Scots style, this former crofter's house on the shores of Loch Dunvegan is a celebrated restaurant showcasing local produce, with spacious bedrooms painted in soothing shades in a house across the courtyard, and views to the mountains of Harris and North Uist.

There are spectacular views across Loch Tummel to the iconic peak of Schiehallion from Jade and Alice Calliva's old coaching inn, where bedrooms of great character have hand-picked artworks and many extras, and an appealing, unpretentious menu is sourced from local suppliers.

Walkers, kayakers and wildlife watchers are in their element at this dog-friendly, welcoming inn with views to the Isle of Bute, moorings for the waterborne, bedrooms supplied with home-baked shortbread and fresh coffee, and a dining room serving seasonal produce cooked with flair.

Under a red tin roof on a scenic single-track road, this quaint, much-loved and welcoming restaurant occupies a former crofter's cottage, with five stylish bedrooms set around a courtyard and fire pit, and first-rate cooking of locally sourced ingredients.

Tom and Michaela Kitchin preside at this gastropub in a coastal village at the heart of golfing country, where Victorian interiors have had a smart-casual Scandi-Scotia makeover, and you can dine on superior pub classics in the Broc Bar, or get the nosebag on for Tom's nature-to-plate dishes in the converted stables.

It's not quite the restaurant at the end of the universe, but there is a great sense of space at this cosy, dog-friendly hotel, in a wilderness landscape of lochs and lochans on the edge of Rannoch Moor, with simple bedrooms (no TV, no radio, no WiFi), and short but creative menus reflecting a passion for local produce.

There are glorious views from this 17th-century country-house hotel with later baronial embellishments, set in gardens and woodland on the shore of the Beauly Firth, with traditional bedroom styling (perhaps a four-poster or half-tester bed, a view across the water), and a formal, fine-dining restaurant.

Offbeat and off-the-beaten track, this restaurant on the shores of Loch Fyne offers an inventive nightly tasting menu, a short à la carte offering, and accommodation in shepherds' huts and bothies.

In a sleepy village six miles from the border, Katrina and William Reynolds's relaxing, family-friendly and affordable inn blends the feel of a traditional country pub with modern furnishings and artworks, while imaginative locally sourced dishes can be enjoyed in the restaurant or garden pod.

Walkers returning to this restaurant with rooms on the shores of Loch Earn, in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, can dine from short, ambitious menus of classically inspired modern Scottish cooking, and watch ospreys from one of the comfortable, traditionally styled loch-view bedrooms.

Interiors at this dog-friendly, intensely characterful inn in a historic conservation village are a riot of granny's attic eccentricity, while bedrooms next door are large, light and contemporary, with swish bathrooms; a weekly changing menu features pub favourites, shooting packages can be arranged, and golfers get special rates at Gleneagles.

In the shadow of Stirling Castle, overlooking a leafy square, this detached Victorian villa is home to the fine-dining Orangery restaurant and very handsome traditional bedrooms, two with a four-poster, as well as a comfy sitting room where a slap-up afternoon tea can be enjoyed by the log burner.

This remote restaurant with rooms beside Loch Voil has some unexpectedly smart contemporary bedrooms with the odd wacky touch, and quirky options such as an 1850s wagon, a ferry cabin, yurts and treehouse in the grounds. In the restaurant, locally sourced and foraged or home-grown ingredients appear in sophisticated modern Scottish dishes.