What a find this turned out to be. We have been coming up this road for years and Taynuilt is not a place we have ever stopped. Until now! Having left Oban with the express purpose of finding a scone on the way home we had been disappointed by several places that either didn’t do scones or were closed. So we were happy to see the sign for the Robin’s Nest Tearoom and decided to give it a try.

Taynuilt is actually bigger than we imagined with quite a few houses tucked away off the main road. This is an old established tearoom. It has existed in various guises though e.g. a doctors surgery, at various points in its history. When we arrived it was very busy and it did not take us long to find out why .. it is a little lost treasure. Now Taynuilt folks will dispute that it is lost but it has certainly been lost to us as we have driven past many times not realising it was there.

Wifi

It is a little bit of a throwback with nothing pretentious or flashy and we got the feeling that they just specialised in what we would call “good old fashioned service’ with lots of local arts and crafts and community information. When we asked if they had wifi the answer was “oh no”. Somehow that response seemed perfectly fitting. In spite of this however we did manage to discover that we were to get a fifth granddaughter in January. That news may have made us look at the place through slightly rose tinted glasses .

The basket case

Unfortunately, even rose tinted glasses can’t help with the media. It’s full of stories about Scotland’s economy  being a complete basket case. Totally unable to sustain itself without the beneficence of  England. Does it ever occur to those making the argument that if it were true , which it patently is not, then presumably that state of affairs must have been brought about by the very Union that they feverishly seek to preserve. It does make you wonder at their logic.

However, everything in the Robin’s Nest was rosy and logical. Our scones were fantastic and so was everything else .. great place.

PA35 1JE               tel: 01866 822429         The Robin’s Nest