Ardbeg Old Kiln Café
The Old Kiln Café
A café in the old peat kiln of the Ardbeg Distillery, the go-to lunch stop on a day trip to the south-coast distilleries. The smoked haddock chowder and steak and ale pie are popular.
Located inside the Ardbeg Distillery on the south coast, the café occupies the old malt kiln, where barley was once dried over peat smoke. It shares its space with the distillery shop and has outdoor seating in summer. It is considered the island's long-standing lunch spot. The menu changes daily. Popular dishes include Cullen skink (smoked haddock chowder), steak and ale pie, seafood stew, and haggis with neeps and tatties, which can be paired with a glass of Ardbeg Uigeadail. Desserts include sticky toffee pudding and cloutie dumpling. Half-hour queues at summer lunchtime are common, and groups should book ahead. It works well combined with visits to Lagavulin and Laphroaig distilleries.
Opening hours
Main season about 10:00-15:30, following distillery visitor hours; shorter hours in winter
Nearby sights
- Ardbeg Distillery
- Dunyvaig Castle
- Lagavulin Distillery
- Laphroaig Distillery
- Kildalton Cross
- Port Ellen Distillery
- Singing Sands (Tràigh Bhàn)
- Islay Woollen Mill