An 18th-century former coaching inn, which gave its name to the village that grew up around it, is run today as a restaurant-with-rooms by chef/proprietor Geoffrey Smeddle and his wife, Katherine.

A passion for all things Orcadian infuses this ‘delightful’ and ‘welcoming’ restaurant-with-rooms overlooking Scapa Flow and the southern Orkney islands.

‘Derek and Celia are just fabulous,’ praised visitors this year. ‘Friendly, efficient – and they’ve done a magnificent job in maintaining and enhancing this former tweed mill.’

The overnight sleeper from London arrives in the middle of nowhere in time for a breakfast of porridge with Drambuie at Scott Meikle and Stephanie Graham’s restaurant-with-rooms.

‘It was all excellent,’ praise visitors in 2018 to ‘attentive but informal’ Alison and Fabrice Bouteloup’s red-stone former coaching inn-cum-restaurant-with-rooms.

Flanked by the 18th-century stone bridge after which it’s named, Graham and Rachel Bucknall’s ‘characterful’ restaurant-with-rooms on the water has much to like.

Take a Michelin-starred kitchen, throw in equally impressive bedrooms and a soupçon of laid-back glamour, and you have Paul Kitching and Katie O’Brien’s splendid restaurant-with-rooms.

Clare Johnson and David Wilson’s gloriously remote red-roofed restaurant-with-rooms continues to delight and dazzle.

A quiet hamlet, a short hit from the coast, is home to this ‘tasteful’, family-run restaurant-with-rooms in a ‘well-maintained’ Victorian terrace house.

In a couldn’t-be-prettier Highland village, Mags and Allan Ritchie’s ‘friendly, casual’ restaurant-with-rooms, forged from a 200-year-old stone stable, is a welcoming retreat for island-hopping travellers.