Orkney Islands

Food & Drink

• Helgi's • Scottish / Randomly served one of the best burgers I've had (with black pudding).
• Kirkwall Hotel • Scottish / Hotel with harbour view restaurant.
• Harbour Fry • Seafood / Hole in the wall restaurant with a line out the door.

• Highland Park • Scotch Distillery / Producing some of the best whisky in the world.
• Royal Cask Whisky Gin Bar • Bar / Thousands of whiskies and hundreds of gins.
• Torvhaug • Bar / Casual Spot for drinks.

• Archive Coffee, Real Food Cafe, SunBean Coffee House, Sheila Fleet Kirk Gallery & Cafe, The Strynd Tea Room, Robertsons Coffeehoose & Bar

Activities & Attractions

• Highland Park Distillery Tour (or Scapa Distillery) • Exclusive tastings with some of the rarest and oldest whiskies.
• Skara Brae Prehistoric Village • Ruins of 8 houses dating back to 3000BC.
• Ring of Brodgar • Stone circle dating back to the Neolithic period.

Stays

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  Kirkwall Hotel • Central location in harbour.
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  The Orkney Hotel • 17th Century hotel, good value.
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  Albert Hotel • Good value in the center of Kirkwall.

• Kirkwall, Stromness, Scapa Flow, Hoy, Birsay

More

• More Food • The Foveran, The Storehouse Restaurant with Rooms, The Sands Bar & Restaurant, The Murray Arms Hotel
• More Drinks • Scapa Distillery, Oat The Back, Auld Motor Hoose, The Foveran
• Sites, Museums & Galleries • Cycle the island (Burwick to Kirkwall to Stromness or reverse)
• Parks • The Gloup, The Brough of Deerness, Scapa Beach, Happy Valley, RSPB Scotland Noup Cliffs