Welcome to the award winning Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum, the gateway to the highlands. |
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Opening Hours
| Monday | 10:00am | to |
10:00pm |
| Tuesday | 10:00am | to |
10:00pm |
| Wednesday | 10:00am | to |
10:00pm |
| Thursday | 10:00am | to |
10:00pm |
| Friday | 10:00am | to |
10:00pm |
| Saturday | 10:00am | to |
10:00pm |
| Sunday | 10:00am | to |
10:00pm |
Find Us
To reach Tyndrum, you travel through some beautiful and spectacular scenery. We are situated in Scotland's first national park, the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park.
By Rail There is an overnight sleeper service from London. Trains also travel to Mallaig, Oban and Glasgow.
For rail enquires and bookings Tel: 08457 484950
By Road National Grid Reference NN 330 305 Postcode FK20 8RY
From Edinburgh 95 miles, M9 to Stirling, A84, A85 through Crianlarich From Fort William 50 miles A82 South across stunning Glencoe
From Glasgow 55 miles A82 North through Dunbarton, Loch Lomond-side, at Crianlarich turn left to Tyndrum
From Oban 43 miles A85 East past Loch Awe
Our Values
Communicate with integrity, openness and honesty
To treat everyone as we would wish to be treated ourselves, most of all with respect and dignity; to give all customers a warm and sincere welcome, never letting our popularity tempt us to take anyone for granted.
Think long term
This is no get-rich-quick scheme. We strive to develop long-term relationships with employees, customers and suppliers. We are proud to be putting down roots in the community; growing and developing the business to be the cafe and employer of choice.
Community involvement
We play an active role in the community, employing and developing a wide range of local folk in different roles, buying from local farmers and artisan suppliers, supporting and sponsoring community projects and events such as The Killin Highland Games Hill Race, The Highland Fling and The West Highland Way Race.
Outstanding quality
We are entirely and totally committed to an exceptional quality of product and service. This commitment to pioneering a new, simple, sustainable ethos for fast food has not changed since day one.
Our Gospel
We are lucky enough to live in this beautiful part of the world, bountiful with the highest quality raw ingredients. We have tried, wherever possible, to source some of these products for the enjoyment of your taste buds! Where products are not available locally we have come up with the best alternative from elsewhere.
We have thought about everything we sell and look to provide healthy, high quality, great value for money food which we can prepare and serve to large numbers of you within a reasonable time frame, we aim for 15 mins max.
All our fried food is cooked in rapeseed oil which is a mono unsaturated fatty acid, rich in Omega 3s. This type of fat is relatively stable to oxidation and rancidity and in nutritional terms is considered one of the better types of fats to eat.
Our potatoes approx three tonnes per week in the summer come from the Glasgow fruit and veg market. Our buyer always selects the best British rather than foreign imports for our chips.
Our haddock and coley comes from sustainable stocks in the Barents Sea and are supplied to us by Smales, the biggest independent fish merchant in the UK (established in 1937).
Our butchery products come from The Aberfoyle Butcher. According to Nick Nairn "The Aberfoyle Butcher is one of the best butchers in the UK, there isn't anything Jonathon Honeyman doesn't know about meat" and we agree!
Our half-pound deluxe burgers are from the pedigree Galloway herd at Loch Dochart Farm, down the glen. And our lamb and caper sausages come from Loch Dochart sheep.
Our ice-cream comes from Equi's in Lanarkshire. Equi's, which was established in 1922, uses no milk powder at all in their ice-cream production – they use only Scottish fresh milk and double cream. In November 2004 Equi's won Best Vanilla Ice-Cream at the UK National Ice-Cream Championships - taste it for yourself.
Compliment your meal with a luxury cup of coffee, available from a genuine Italian Espresso machine, or as filter coffee. Matthew Algie (who have been in the coffee roasting business in Glasgow since 1964) supply us with our organic, fairtrade coffee beans and drinking chocolate. This means that the coffee and chocolate have been harvested on farms that have strict standards in place to ensure no artificial fertilizers are used and that the workers have a fair and dignified way of life.
Accomodation |
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West Highland Lodge is a friendly family run guest house situated in a unique location within the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National park which is one of the most attractive parts of Scotland. A relaxed comfortable environment awaits you offering home cooked food using fresh local produce. | www.westhighlandlodge.com |
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Strathfillan House Diane and Jim welcome you to the B&B website of Strathfillan House in the Highland village of Tyndrum. We offer Bed and Breakfast accommodation in our family home and can assure you of a warm friendly welcome to this rather special part of Scotland. | website: www.tyndrum.com |
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Blaich Cottage is a unique former crofters cottage, sympathetically restored to a beautiful self-catering holiday home. Nestling on the edge of your own private sixteen acre woodland, with waterfalls, streams, places to picnic and enjoy the hidden delights we have to offer. | www.fortwilliamholidaylet.co.uk |
The Area |
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The West Highland Way links Milngavie to Fort William a distance of 152km (95 miles) from the northern outskirts of Glasgow, to the foot of Ben Nevis at Fort William. The Route follows the shores of Loch Lomond, through Strathfillan, crossing Rannoch Moor, past Buachaille Etive Mor to the head of Glencoe, climbing the Devil's Staircase and crossing the River Leven before entering Lairigmor and Glen Nevis. |
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Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park is for everyone to explore and enjoy. There is something for everyone - low level and hill walking, cycling, boating, golf, wildlife watching and for the more adventurous, canoeing, kayaking, windsurfing and mountain biking. Whatever the weather, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park offers stunning surroundings for your visit. | http://www.lochlomond-trossachs.org/ |
This page is dedicated to Steve Wolsey
The building which today houses the Real Food Cafe was once a struggling Little Chef. Sarah Heward and Steve Wolsey had been visiting the area for many years when they found it was for sale in 2004. They were soon convinced that this was the place for them to establish their dream of a high quality, locally sourced cafe and give up life in the City of London.
After months of planning the conversion began, with a new open plan cooking area, and a huge central table to foster the atmosphere of shared eating. The cafe duly opened in 2005 to national acclaim. Late in 2005 Sarah and Steve celebrated their wedding in style with their families, friends, their team from the Real Food Cafe and liberal doses of fish and chips and champagne. However, their dream wa shattered when Steve died very suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 21st May 2006 at 10.30pm.
He was immensely proud of the cafe and the wonderful team, who have all been an fantastic source of support to Sarah as she has found her feet again. Today, the cafe continues Sarah and Steve's dream, the team now being led by the general manager Andrew Boden alongside Sarah, Julie, Marta and Frank. We continue to serve you as well as we possibly can in Steve's honour.