Our current winter opening times...

MONDAY: CLOSED

TUESDAY: CLOSED

WEDNESDAY: CLOSED

THURSDAY: 11.30-3, 5- LATE

FRIDAY: 11.30-3, 5- LATE

SATURDAY: 11.30-3, 5- LATE

SUNDAY: 11.30-3, 5- LATE

Please note that we will be closing up to give the staff and the bistro a well deserved holiday from the 21st December, and we will be re-opening on 1st March, With a lovely new addition being added to the bistro!

Christmas Presents....

Just got some new bits and pieces for the run up to Christmas! We have fine wines, premium spirits and local beers available to purchase from our off - sales corner at Crofters Bistro in Rosemarkie

Trying out a few ideas for the breakfast menu....

That we will be running next year. 

Eggs royale and Eggs benedict. 

Macaroons

Home made macaroons ...... DONE!

Now selling Christmas hampers!!

Christmas Menu

We are now taking bookings for Christmas Parties. Pleas call us on 01381 620844 or email us at croftersbistro@gmail.com   

                            CHRISTMAS MENU

Starters 

Smoked trout & horseradish pate with Melba toast 

Venison carpaccio with a horseradish cream & redcurrant compote

(V) Savoury cheesecake with red onion & thyme marmalade 

Seasonal game terrine with tomato chutney

Maple syrup glazed king scallops with bacon & a carrot & beetroot purée 

Mains 

Slow braised Venison, creamy mash, roast mushrooms, bacon lardons, red wine sauce 

Free range turkey served with all the trimmings 

(V) spiced vegetable filo parcel with raita and new potatoes

Baked cod with a chorizo & herb crust, new potatoes greens & beurre noisette

Confit duck with a vegetable fricasse, fondant potato & cranberry sauce

(V) Ravioli filled with confit beetroot, thyme & smoked garlic butter

Honey & cumin roasted gammon, a black pudding & apple potato cake, and orange sauce

Desserts 

Sticky toffee pudding with butterscotch sauce & ice cream 

Christmas pudding with brandy butter 

Boozy trifle with strawberrys & glayva 

Cheeseboard, chutney, biscuits & port (£3 supplement)

£20 per person for 2 courses

£25 per person for 3 courses

All come with a free glass of our home made mulled wine

For enquiries & bookings please call us on 01381 620844

Or email us at croftersbistro@gmail.com 

We are running a Curry Challenge at the moment......

Eat a hot curry, rice, poppadom and drink a lager of your choice for £20!! If you finish and all the bowls are clean..... You pay NOTHING!!!!! Here is our 1st Champion, Captain Hammock, with his father in Law who made a valiant attempt but fell at the final hurdle! 

Our new king scallop starter...

.... On the menu! Seared King scallops, with a sweet corn purée, Serrano ham, and baby gem lettuce. 

At Last!!!!!! Sushi in Inverness

This was our feast after a busy dinner service tonight! Sushi courtesy of sushiinverness.co.uk very fresh, very tasty, and they deliver, and they have only been going 1 week! 

WE ARE NOW TAKING BOOKINGS....

.... FOR CHRISTMAS PARTIES! 

FOR ENQUIRIES PLEASE EMAIL US AT croftersbistro@gmail.com  

Lovely plum tarte tatin

On the menu! 

Pan fried John Dory.....

With bindi and a lemon butter sauce

Cumin roasted pork belly, spiced potato cake....

.... With a plum jus and orange sauce.

Crab and smoked salmon linguini with a.....

Citrus and smoked garlic butter and red vein sorrel leaves. 

Whisky chip smoked saddle of venison....

With fondant potato and a black currant and red wine sauce!   

  

Masala spiced cod fillet, with dokla and bindi..

Rolled pork loin filled with apple and sage stuffing.....

..... Black pudding and streaky bacon, with baby beets, carrots and sautéed new potatoes. 

Our new outdoor furniture has arrived....

Thanks to Erlend for his craftsmanship! Let's have a sunny day so we can make use of it!! 

Quesadillas and nachos

Michelada & a Margerita for tonight's Mexican night!

Seared venison fillet, smoked parsnip and vanilla purée

With red wine sauce and chanterelle mushrooms! 

We've smoked some duck with our whisky chips

Made a beetroot and hazelnut carpaccio to go with it, and boom.......

Now that is a langoustine!

Slow braised beef in red wine with Jersey royals and greens!

Whisky chip smoked cod, wrapped in Parma ham

In a mussel broth! 

Father's Day special

Chilled strawberry soup with floating meringue! 

Tonight's cocktail special

A strawberry and mint sangria to welcome Summer!

Today's seafood platter..

.... With razor clams in smoked garlic and chorizo butter, oysters, king scallops and prawns

Smoked guinea fowl with a pomegranate sauce

First batch of our treacle cured bacon now ready....

..... And on sale, selling quickly, so if your taste buds are tingling, get down quick!

Our surf 'n' turf special....

Black pudding potato cake, beef fillet, lobster ravioli, and a red wine and raspberry sauce.

Our burger of the day.......

Thai beef!  Now ready to be put through our mincer. Yummy!

FOH manager Alistair's handy work.....

Beef fillet carpaccio.....

With truffle salt, rocket, capers and Parmesan 

Come and have a glass of our home-made lemonade

Teriyaki glazed pork fillet......

With black pudding mash, pak choi, and our slow oven roasted tomatoes! 

That's our treacle cured bacon on the go

Cured with smoked salts, smeared with treacle, vacuum packed,

and let it sleep in the fridge for 14 days.......

Got some lovely sumptuous Shetland mussels....

.... On the menu

Busy morning.....

Made our lovely bread buns, smoked our garlic, and fed some lovely customers! All in a day's work

. 

We've just done the Fairy Glen walk in Rosemarkie.....

Can't recommend it enough! This is the end reward! 

Why not come down and try......

One of our yummy stone baked pizzas!!

Our home made tortellini

Filled with roasted sweet potato and our smoked garlic truffle butter!

Slow braised pigs cheeks!!!!

Slow braised pigs cheeks in red wine sauce with celeriac purée!

Whitebait galore

Must be national whitebait day today, better get crumbing

!!

Crab gnocchi

With our own smoked garlic and chilli butter, with lovely just in langoustines! 

Poached monkfish with a cheese herb and chorizo crust....

With herbed new potatoes and a lemon butter sauce

Beef fillet carpaccio ready to be sliced

5 kilos of monkfish tail...

About to be filleted for the menu today! What a beast. 

Beautiful wild mushrooms

Lovely array of wild mushrooms to go with our venison fillet special!

Fresh seafood from Coast and glen

Lovely Shetland mussels, side of salmon and some cracking haddock singles to go with our own made beer batter! 

Crumbed whitebait

Yes we do actually handcrumb each individual whitebait!!