Tyndrum Inn, Crianlarich

Excellent pub - Paddy's Diner no longer. Now a restaurant. Recommended.

The hotel appears to be accommodation only, with eating and drinking opportunities now offered in the slightly incongruous Paddy's Rock'n'Roll Diner in the modern extension alongside. Inside it's not as awful as perhaps it could have been, with the only rock'n'roll themed artefacts that I could see being a couple of dancing statues - that's statues of dancers, rather than actual moving statues. There are some fairly standard pub tables and chairs, a long bar at the back, and an area to the right with a pool table, separated by half-panels. A collection of lanterns hangs from the ceiling, and a brass band's instruments from various walls. On the bar were the usual Scottish fonts, only one of which did not feature the words "cold" or "super chilled". However, even the font thus singled out was dispensing what to my teeth felt like very cold McEwans 80/-. OK, it soon warmed up while I wrote these notes, but even then didn't really taste of much. (The petrol station along the road at the Green Wellie Stop has a good selection of bottled ales, one of which accompanied me to my tent after I left here.)