The catch of the day could be Shetland hake in the restaurant or nifty fielding on the sands at this pub-with-rooms overlooking the Firth of Forth, with its own beach cricket team.

A boutique hotel in every sense (if you love the furnishings you can buy your own), this sublimely situated Arts and Crafts Victorian country house is a perfect base for outdoor pursuits, with fine-dining restaurant, onsite pub, and picnics to order.

Former Gleneagles pastry chefs Phillip Skinazi and Andrew Mackay are enthusiastic hands-on owners at this former coaching inn in a conservation village, now an excellent restaurant with stylish, well-equipped rooms.

Within a medieval castle and Georgian house above the Sound of Mull, this remote restaurant with rooms has four fantastic suites, spectacular views, and no less memorable cooking by chef-proprietor Colin Nicholson.

Award-winning chef Calum Montgomery has transformed a run-down 16th-century hunting lodge into a splendid restaurant with rooms showcasing the produce of his native Skye in exquisitely presented dishes.

Expect a cheerful welcome at this pub with rooms, which stands by a bridge over the Union Canal in a conservation village.

A hotel and village local on Scotland's Golf Coast has been reinvented as a comfortable, family friendly, dog-friendly bolthole, with a bar and relaxed all-day dining in the restaurant and alfresco.

Garry Watson cooks up a storm at this exceptional restaurant with smart and stylish bedrooms, in a coastal hamlet close to beautiful Lunan Bay.

Crafted from an 18th-century manse on the waterfront, this restaurant with rooms owned by Robert Hicks and Helen Chalmers is full of charming surprises.

A dream destination for golfing gourmets, just a 12-minute drive from St Andrews, Geoffrey and Katherine Smeddle's restaurant with rooms holds a Michelin star for Geoffrey's creative menus of ingredients sourced locally from land and sea.

With possibly the best location in Portree, this former Victorian shooting lodge has spectacular views over the bay and Sound of Raasay to the Cuillin mountains. Now a family-run hotel, it has smart contemporary bedrooms and serves locally sourced, traditional dishes along with the views.

Kilted doormen greet you at Rocco Forte's Victorian former railway hotel, with its iconic clocktower, lavish public spaces, spa, bedrooms designed with Olga Polizzi's light-touch elegance, classic French cooking of seasonal Scottish ingredients, and afternoon tea in the legendary Palm Court.

Offbeat and off-the-beaten track, this restaurant on the shores of Loch Fyne offers an inventive nightly tasting menu, a short à la carte offering, and accommodation in shepherds' huts and bothies.

In a sleepy village six miles from the border, Katrina and William Reynolds's relaxing, family-friendly and affordable inn blends the feel of a traditional country pub with modern furnishings and artworks, while imaginative locally sourced dishes can be enjoyed in the restaurant or garden pod.