Scapa Flow Restaurant in Orkney Islands

The only opened restaurant in Stormness at the moment. Nice service, full plate for low price.

It's an excellent, friendly place and the food is delicious. We went there every morning and evening to eat. You might need to book. The apple crumble is magical btw.

What a restaurant! You step back over 100 years into a bygone era. Except, that is, for the food.There was a group of us so we saw a cross-section of the menu. In short, it was all good. So why only 4*? The veggies. They were all beautifully prepared, the chips were gorgeous. But... they could have been presented better. The potatoes were plain boiled, melted in the mouth deliciously but would have looked better tossed in a little butter with some herbs. The same for the carrots which had a bit of butter but we had to toss them ourselves.The Baileys cheesecake is perfection: change nothing. The cheese platter was good for me 'cos it gave me, a 2 day visitor, Orkney cheese and Orkney oatcakes; more oatcakes please and what was that white granular, totally tasteless cheese?The lobster dish is brilliant; the duck, the steaks were all delicious, just a shame about the look of the veggies. Now offer us real coffee and the evening would have been exceptional.

Wild dissatisfaction swept the table as our pre-ordered meals were delivered with long pauses between each plate's arrival. Coarse and unfriendly staff interspersed by others that were happy and smiling often failed to deliver coherent service with any kind of discernable organisation.The food offered good choice for vegetarians and vegans, although the finished articles were generally bland and under-seasoned. The meat and fish based dishes were more appetising but relied heavily on the flavour of second rate produce. Generally food was overcooked, although not burned.Desert again offered a reasonable mix of both classic and interesting dishes, but lacked flavour or was overcooked.In summary, not somewhere I would return given the option of other establishments, but if it was this vs. hunger I'd probably concede and return. Oh and the bill was also incorrect... A fairly simple thing to generate a series of numbers that add up using entry level mathematics.

Not sure what to make of this place. Food was fine (actually nice) but waitress whilst bringing food repeatedly told us that it was going to be "disgusting" (it wasn't) and watched while we ate to observe our reaction. Gave feedback at the time but it was a strange experience.

The service is a bit odd- they seemed surprised that I wanted a table for dinner at Aaron's 6:30pm- but the food was good. Good vegetarian options.

Curry of the day is never less than superb. Good beer too.

Restaurant attached to Stromness hotel but open to all. Young but professional staff. Good, reasonably priced food. Harbour views from some tables but may need to book ahead to grab them.

Good food and very good service. Let us eat just as it approached the closing of the kitchen. Excellent bar.

Rather quaint, old fashioned style restaurant suits the middle aged to grey money diner rather than trendy youngsters. Good food, fairly standard menu that I liked with good portion sizes at reasonable prices. Excellent draft and bottled Orkney beers. Good service from pleasant waiters and great to look out over the harbour to island of Hoy even from our table at the back of the restaurant. Can't give it five stars as the chips were not brilliant and whole place needs a little refurbishment, however would go back again.