Today, we never thought we would end up here at Amy’s Place. About ten years ago we visited the little village of Elgol with some friends. From the main drag in Broadford, Elgol is 15 miles down a single track sheep infested road where it terminates.
The Ridge
Lot’s of people go there just to get what is regarded as the best view of the Black Cuillin. Munro’s are hills over 3000ft and there are 282 in Scotland, 12 of which are in the Black Cuillin. Hillwalkers like to collect or ‘bag’ them! The Cuillin ones are challenging and many have ‘bagged’ all but one – the aptly named, Inaccessible Pinnacle. To see the In Pinn, as it’s known, we highly recommend watching “The Ridge” by Danny MacAskill.
Rock climbing here is fabulous because the the rock is made of gabbro, a rough-grained igneous rock that gives excellent grip but can wear out your boots very quickly. You just have to beware of seams of basalt running through the gabbro which are the exact opposite in terms of grip.
25 different ones
But never mind all that, the important thing about Elgol back then was the café. Perched up on some high ground, it was unsurprisingly called ‘Cuilin View’. It boasted an amazing 25 different types of scone. As I remember, I had apple and cinnamon … fab! That was before we started our blog so we didn’t write about it. But it lodged in our minds! We were determined to get there again and let our readers share in the experience.
However, when we got to Elgol there was no sign of the Cuillin VIew cafe … argh! All there was was a sort of coffee trailer thingy, and it wasn’t open! Downhearted, we had no choice but to backtrack along the road we had just come. Not really a hardship on Skye. We stopped a while at Cill Chroisd, a ruined sixteenth century church and graveyard.
Just after that we came across Amy’s Place in the tiny village of Torrin. There’s no real evidence of a village just a sprinkling of houses and this purple cabin just off the road. It was busy with people sitting inside and out. 
This sign was outside so we had to ask if it was okay for us to come in. Thankfully, they gave us a special dispensation!
Sad
We were interested to meet the Amy who had the foresight to set this place up in such a perfect spot, but sadly, no! There was no Amy to serve our scones. The name simply commemorates the owner’s daughter who passed away in 2018 aged 23 having suffered from Lupus and epilepsy. Unfortunately, a situation Pat and I are all too familiar with.
Everything is freshly made by Amy’s parents so we placed our order for coffee and scones and went outside to sit in the sun. 
We didn’t have long to wait before we were eating our scones and sipping coffee admiring the view from our table. It was nothing short of amazing! The cream came in a prepackaged jar but there was lots of jam. We would have loved for it to be a topscone but it didn’t quite make it. But hey! Who cares when you can sit at Amy’s Place on a day like this? We thoroughly enjoyed everything! 
Embarrassing
The odious Home Secretary, Suella Braverman ,has been at it again. This time she has questioned the police judgement in not banning a protest by people supporting a ceasefire in Palestine on Armistice day. In doing so her language has only served to inflame the situation. Embarrassing for the Prime Minister but he just has himself to blame. He appointed her!
We think Amy’s parents are doing a great job here and hope they go from strength to strength..
IV49 9BA tel: 01471 822847 Amy’s Place
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Sitting outside Amy’s ,in the sun ,with that view in front of you must have seemed like paradise. Thank- you for sharing.
It was lovely Kath, it was just great to be back on Skye. The last time we were on the island we were just briefly passing through to get the ferry to Raasay where we had to stay in the new distillery! It’s one hardship after another 😀
Enjoyed this very much. We had a good laugh at the Warning sign – Forbes and I both having been brought up by Scottish parents who had us fairly (right or wrong) convinced at an early age that most people (particularly who were not Scottish) are stupid (ha ha). Well, so much intelligence can be a burden though – please pass the whiskey!
What can I say? You had very wise parents 🤣 Hope all is well in Vancouver.
25 different types of Scone is a lot,
I can only think of
Plain
Cheese
Fruit
Cherry
Treacle
I think I’ve also had Apple and cinnamon.
I was also hoodwinked into trying a plain Vegan scone. 🙁
It would be interesting to see a list of 25 flavours, or even better to have them available to try!
Well we can’t remember all the different types. We wanted to return to photograph the large blackboard they chalked them all up on. That number, 25, was probably too many though to be economically viable … especially in a tiny place like Elgol. If you do a search on the blog for ‘weird scones’ you’ll get some of the stranger ones we have had.
Sad that the cafe we had visited a few years ago wasn’t there but it was lovely to sit in the sunshine at Amy’s place. When we were about to drive off we couldn’t get out of the car park because the fish lady had arrived and she had customers who obviously come and sit in Amy’s while they wait, no worries we weren’t in a hurry and just bided our time until everyone had their fish. Not a top scone but who cares, it wasn’t a terrible scone.