Clovelly Torran Glas - Isle of Harris

24/10/2026

22/10/2026

22/10/2026

Anyone see our post about this coming Saturday evening?
First quiz of the winter plus we are offering some Jacket Spuds.

Would be very helpful to know if any of you intend on having one so that we don’t do too much as I am on a diet!
Just comment below if you can it won’t commit you to a lifetime supply or anything 😉

Toppings available:

Home made Chilli Con Carne.
Three Bean Veggie Chilli.
Beans & Cheese.

All ten quid.

Slàinte 😊🍻

21/10/2026

🌙 In a Gaelic speaking home, the day ends with two soft words: oidhche mhath.

It means simply good night. Oidhche is night, and mhath is the softened form of math, meaning good. Spoken aloud it sounds roughly like eye-chuh vah, with a soft breathy ch, like the h in huge, rather than the throaty ch of loch. Like so much in Gaelic, the second word changes its sound after the first, and the hard m of math softens into a v. To many people who heard it as children, it is one of the gentlest sounds in the language.

There are other night time words that went with it. You might hear cadal math, sleep well, as a child was tucked in, or a quiet blessing said over the bed. Parents, grandparents and older brothers and sisters would say oidhche mhath from room to room as the lamps went out, and the reply came back the same way. In a crowded croft house, those words passed around the walls like a last warm thread tying the family together before morning. 🕯️

For generations of children in the Highlands and Islands, and among Gaelic speaking families in places like Cape Breton, Glengarry and the Carolinas, oidhche mhath was among the first Gaelic words they learned and among the last they forgot. Even people who grew up long after the language faded in their family sometimes remember a grandparent saying it, without ever knowing quite what it meant.

That is the thing about a language. It does not only live in books or in grand speeches. It lives in the smallest, most ordinary moments, the ones repeated every single night for a lifetime.

So as the lights go out tonight, wherever your Scottish roots lie, here is the old wish from the islands to you and yours. Oidhche mhath. 💙

21/10/2026

That’s us back open after a week off 🤩

We will be open in the evening Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

👀 Next week will be the last week of the 2026 season so please contact us to make a booking 💙 We plan to be open in the evening Monday - Friday next week so give us a message if you fancy getting one last meal in with us before we close for the season.

📞 01859 501 337
📧 [email protected]
💻 www.northharbourbistro.co.uk

16/10/2026

16/10/2026

14/10/2026

This coming Friday evening folks at 7:30 we have some live music for you from Simon Carbery.
We’ve been pestering Simon for a while now to come and play for us and he has finally caved!
Friday will be a rare solo gig with some unplugged versions of some of his songs.
Friday will be free entry too folks so please come down and give Simon one of our fabulous audiences to play to.
Please note that our kitchen is closed so grab your dinner before heading out.

Here is a little more info for you….

Vegetarians & Carnivores is a solo/collaborative indie music project by writer, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Simon Carbery. Simon works with renowned UK and overseas musicians on an eclectic list of songs influenced by alternative rock and pop, film music, world, jazz and classical.
Simon is also a member of UK band The Wood Demons, and as Cornelius Fuel published the novel ‘The Morphant’ for 9-12 year olds through Troubadour.