An excellent find in Helensburgh, and one of the best tapas restaurants to be found in Scotland…read moreIMHO. There was only one server on duty, but he coped admirably with the increasing numbers who arrived during a Monday lunchtime. The portions are large enough to satisfy the appetite, the menu is quite extensive, and the prices are reasonable. Lunchtime price was £16.45 for three tapas. I had Paella Verduras, Champinones con Huevo, and Calamares a la Anadluza. Herself had Tortilla Espanola, Boquerones en Vinagre, and Vieiras (Scallops - which had a £4 supplement). All delicious, and with such a good range of dishes to choose from, I'm sure we'll be making the trip 'doon the watter' again soon.

Greated by surly Joe , shown to a table with nowhere to hang our coats , kitchen door was open…read moreassume to help cool the chef ,not so good for the freezing customers in the draft Joe and to top it all off one hour for six tapas dishes ,,come on six small plates can't be that difficult ,, in a nutshell overpriced and over rated but if you do decide to go take a jumper

Great food, service and atmosphere! If you're coming in from the cruise ship, it's a great stop to…read moregrab a bite to eat!!

Nice place for lunch dinner and drinks if you're in varied company where not everyone has the same…read moretastes. Unlikely to offend with a very large and reasonably priced menu. Weekend nights have live acoustic music- there's a dining area with tables and booths and bar area. Good selection of inexpensive cocktails and some mocktails, the food menu really is HUGE with some pub grub type stuff, pastas, pizzas and some sharing platter including a veggie one which I found very tasty and ludicrously cheap at roughly a fiver for a board for one! nice suki tea for all the tea jennies out there too! gets very busy on weekend nights, definitely best to book ahead!

We stayed at Sugar Boat for a few nights in July 2023, right after they opened up the room upstairs…read morefor travelers, and had a good experience. The rooms are decorated with a very modern look and spotless clean, albeit a wee too small. What was really convenient was the restaurant downstairs where we ended up having most of our meals. The food was delicious with great wine pairings. Breakfast was a bit underwhelming with a considerable lack of good service if compared to the other meals.

Fantastic burger here today. Next time I'll get a special. Good fries here too. I keep coming back…read morehere.

The food was great but trying to get any sort of service was murder. I hate it when a waiter…read moreleaches over you as you eat but the opposite is just as bad. We were waiting for the dessert menu for so long we decided just to take the bill in the end incase we died of old age before we could get out.

Go to Bensons at the Forge Retail Park instead. Sutherlands is a poor-mans attempt to copy a very…read moresuccessful restaurant that we visit often in the East End of Glasgow, and it blows Sutherland's out of the water. Our Sutherland's review: Sutherland's is like a very bad and very expensive British Home Stores BHS cafe. Walked in and stood at the 'Please Wait to be Seated' sign. Waited for 5 minutes, with staff ignoring us. We walk up to man tending the bar and ask for a table for two, he ignores us. We ask again and he THROWS cutlery/glassware he was washing into the sink in a rage, turns and exclaims "What do you want! Just sit anywhere!" We sit down and a woman mopping the floor marches up to us and says, word-for-word "You're not sitting here. Move to that table" as she points to a table closer to the front door. We move to the other table. In order for staff to have to walk less, and so that it's easier to clean the restaurant, at certain times of the day it seems that Sutherland's packs all their customers like sardines towards the front of the cafe. Maybe they should ask "wouldn't you prefer to eat it in your car" because then they'll have no tables to clean." Nobody has a menu yet, and we have to wait 10 minutes for a server to arrive. A waitress arrives and, without saying anything, stands over us with her pad (no, "what would you like" or anything pleasant like that, just stands and waits.) I say, "Could we have some menus please" and she exhales forcefully, turns and gets us menus that are falling apart at the seems and filthy. Eventually, we place a pretty straightforward order (cheeseburger and chips, roll and sausage) but for some reason it takes about 30 minutes to arrive, despite the fact we are 1 of only 3 other parties in the restaurant. OK, it might be prepared from scratch, but 30 minutes is a joke. The food arrives and it is fairly bland and uninspiring, nothing better than you'd get at McDonalds, except at least McDonalds in Clydebank has been newly decorated and feels stylish/chic - Sutherland's blood-red walls feels like a crypt and for some reason, it has a one-way mirror at the back of the restaurant so that management can monitor the staff and/or customers. Maybe it's so they can call the police if a customer tries to move to another table. Only one member of staff, a younger woman, showed any enthusiasm or efficiency, the bar man and other waiting staff couldn't give a toss. Compare this with Bensons in the East End of Glasgow, and it's a totally different experience. They have a staff member constantly standing at the welcome podium, greeting you as you arrive and giving you a menu too. They have delicious food, and often you see a butcher arrive with fresh meat to the kitchen. The staff are very efficient, and you can sit wherever you choose. The decor is light, airy, modern, and cosy, and the food is cooked fresh, arrives quickly and they are often queued out the door.

Back in the days when I used to work for IBM I came here often. Ordered a chicken cesar salad (no…read moreanchovies, twice the bacon) and many times accompanied it with a hot chocolate. Still over a decade later I reminesce about the food and the staff. Might be late to give a review, but this is what it is, when you find something worth reminiscing about

Amazing fast service, food amazing very tasty. Plenty walks outside by the Loch, paths, trees, boat…read moretrips,food, drink, shops, all on the doorstep.

Tried this place out after the refurb having never been before and was very impressed. The food…read morewas delicious, especially the fresh seafood platter. The pulled pork was delicious and the brownies were a huge hit! I don't know what it was like before but have heard it was very dark with dark wood panelling. It has also been extended and you can tell they've spent a lot of money on it. It is now a pale blue colour and lovely and bright. It has a sort of American pier restaurant style inside with maps on the walls and ceilings and booths in the main part of the restaurant area. There were a few Scottish influences dotted around, tartan cushions, loch lomond on the ceiling and a stag on the wall by the corner table where we sat. The menu is very varied with plenty of different options from sausage and mash to vegetable pad thai. I love the sound of the wild boar pate starter (£5.50) and would also go back to try the chicken risotto with chorizo, cherry tomatoes and parmesan (£10.25). They also do some very nice sounding breakfasts until noon and gourmet sandwiches (£5.50) and loaded potatoes (£6.00) for lunch. I was impressed with the kids menu which had pretty healthy choices including a vegetable stir fry (all options £5, puddings £2). There is also DJ entertainment on Fridays and Saturdays with cocktails for £5.50. They also have rooms so it could be a lovely place to stay for a weekend by the loch. There is free WiFi so we could tweet away about the yummy food too! We were treated to, among others, Prosecco (£3.95), Kir Royales and Pimms, including the new Blackberry & Elderflower which was delicious! We ended up sampling the seafood, Italian meat and vegetarian platters and they were all lovely. My favourite was the seafood, although I'm not keen on cold mussels, closely followed by the meat platter. The only thing which would improve them is the bread, some nice flat bread (which we did receive on a separate platter) or nicer crusty bread would have been better than the slices of brown and white bread served with big lumps of butter on top. I love tomato and mozzarella and the beef tomato salad version sounds lovely, served with fresh basil & pesto dressing (£4.95). The cherry tomato skewers were nice once I dipped them in the olive oil and balsamic from the platters. Chicken goujons (£5.50) and potato skins (£4.95) The chicken goujons were delicious once I added some salt & pepper, although they were quite greasy with tempura style batter. The potato skins were lovely (again, once seasoned) and much nicer than usual wedges. Both of the above would probably have been much better if served with the sweet chilli dip and aioli they usually come with, according to the menu. The teriyaki chicken was delicious but very mild tasting. Usually served with wilted pak choi and fresh coriander rice (£12.95). We all loved the Moroccan stew wraps, they were full of flavour and I would definitely order one of these for lunch! On the menu though, it comes served as stew with herb couscous and warm flatbread (£11.95). Definitely worth a try. The mini burgers were very well seasoned and delicious, the full sized version with sour dough bun is £9.95 and comes with bacon and cheese, onion rings, chunky chips, burger sauce and house slaw. We ordered some more drinks and saw the waitress using a tablet which she explained was hooked up to the wireless system so the order went straight through. The next thing we tried was the pulled pork which was served on slices of grilled apple. It was lovely, full of flavour and not too smokey which I find can often be the overwhelming flavour of pulled pork. (£13.50 served with BBQ sauce, potato skins and grilled apple.) Then it was time for dessert! This was definitely the highlight for me and I'm not usually that bothered about dessert. We were treated to brownies, profiteroles and meringues. Brownies (£4.95 served warm with ice cream), Meringues (£4.95) and Profiteroles (£4.95) They were all fabulous and had the meringue been chewy it might have been my favourite but I loved the brownie, it had a sort of ganache-like layer on top and was so rich, chewy and delicious. As the brownie was so rich, one was plenty, despite being my favourite. I did snaffle some more of the little profiteroles though! ;) For people like me who find it difficult to choose, there's a sharing sweet plate for £12 with tasters of sticky toffee pudding, vanilla cheesecake and profiteroles with vanilla ice cream. After seeing the fantastic coffee station, I ordered a latte (£2.25) which came with a home-baked biscuit. Both were very tasty and the perfect way to finish off the evening. Even though it's about 40 minutes from Glasgow, the Tullie Inn would be a lovely place to stop for lunch or dinner or even coffee if you're out for the day by Loch Lomond.