"A Perfect Meal"

I have featured Inver in this journal several times - indeed one of them was exactly a year ago today. 

This morning Cathleen went to the open day for the very impressive Strachur Wellbeing Hub and we stopped off at Inver for lunch on our way home -  a little celebration if you like. 

In over 20 years of coming here , in its several incarnations, I have never been when the weather has been good enough to sit outside and eat, but today it was as we are still enjoying this remarkable sunny, very hot, clear skies weather. 

I chose the Halibut which was extraordinary.  When I told Rob, one half of the prize winning Inver management team (the other being his wife Pam who is the amazingly talented chef) he said that he was glad my opinion chimed with that of the Herald Restaurant critic, Ron Mackenna,

By co-incidence his piece was in today's Herald and this is his description of what we both ate :

Gigha halibut, mussels and coastal greens. Yes, there’s some seaweed in there. Dulce: crisp, packed with that umami Heston Blumenthal is always banging on about. Samphire too. Crisp mussels. Purple and white sea campion flowers.
The fish skin is even rolled and fried to a puffed and savoury crisp. But the fish itself? Sitting in a salty, buttery frothy sauce? Crikey. Perfect, meaty white, light and incredibly fresh. The seasoning is flawless.
Recently I’ve eaten in a good few Michelin-starred restaurants and yet this dish is better than anything I had in any of them. By far.

I concur exactly.   I also concur that at Inver you can have the "perfect meal" ( as Ron describes it) and it is great to see a local business go from strength to strength and establish such a reputation.  Scotland certainly is becoming a "good food nation" and the work of so many - producers, retailers, chefs and customers -  is going into building and maintaining that reputation.  

Ron's piece can be found here .   And  if you haven't found Inver yet, make sure you do so - even if the weather cannot be guaranteed to be like today the food - and the view across to old Castle Lachlan - will still be very good indeed.