Reviews
We are gradually getting more reviews as we get better known. We are listed as one of the best economical restaurants in "Scotland the Best"- a tick no less and have a really good recommendation in the new Rough Guide to Scotland. Recent reviews include;
The Independant 50 best Sunday lunches in the UK. Sutor Creek was number 36!
" 36. Sutor Creek
Situated by the harbour in the historic Black Isle town of Cromarty, Sutor Creek specialises in pizzas during the week but on Sundays it lets its hair down. “When the last customer has left on Saturday,” says Donald, “the Highlands’ only wood-fired pizza oven is turned down to give a selection of local butcher Gordon Moir’s prime cuts a long, slow roast. By Sunday lunch, the meat is succulent.”
The Rough Guide to Scotland 2006
"For something to eat there are few more down to earth but satisfying restaurants in the Highlands than Sutor Creek. A small but friendly place run as a local co-op it serves delicious fresh pizza cooked in a wood fired oven though the imaginative toppings (and daily blackboard specials) are local and seasonal rather than conventionally Italian."
The Sunday Times of 27 February 2006 which reads
‘ This is great” is a sentence that always comes laden with a jus of surprise in a northern restaurant.
Find a decent place to eat above the culinary Mason-Dixon line that runs across the Pitlochry parallel and you are torn between the urges to yell its name from a convenient mountain top, or keep it to yourself lest the establishment be swarmed with metropolitan poseurs.
Now nobody is going to add the douce old town of Cromarty to a gourmet trail, but if you find yourself wandering its attractive little streets, it’s good to know there are superior victuals on offer.
Sutor Creek is one of those admirable restaurants that have defied the provincial traditions of Scottish catering. By which I mean that it tries to offer rather more ambitious fare than what can be defrosted from a giant chest freezer out back.
For the snacking crowd they prepare fresh pizzas. Otherwise the menu appears to have been kept narrow and simple so that emphasis can be given to the preparation and presentation. On my demanding table, comprising 10 degenerates and one discerning aesthete, virtually everybody was going for mussels followed by venison with roasted root vegetables.
In these days of Thai lasagne, it was a relief to find cuisine containing nothing that couldn’t be harvested from the immediate vicinity.
Once you are replete, Cromarty deserves at least a couple of days of your attention.....
The Guardian 12 November 2005 in the Italian in Scotland Readers' Restaurants
"Sutor creek, a pizza cafe by Cromarty Harbour with a warm ambience has been called "a little corner of Tuscany in the north of scotland" because it has the essential equipment of the Italian restaurant for centuries - a genuine wood burning oven. The pizza bases are consequently a light crispy smoky delight and support and mix of toppings. The menu changes daily and scores strongly on locally sourced produce from seafood, venison and beef to most of the salads and veggies. The reasonably priced organic wine list is superbly complimentary."
The 2005 edition of Scotland the Best:
Sutor Creek run by a collective in true 60's style, this 00's lifestyle restaurant at the end of the road (in the Black Isle) that's as good as anywhere similar in your town or mine. Wood fired oven turning out great crispy pizza and lots more; many specials, great craic. Don Coutts you have partaken of another slice of life!
