Breakfast at Fern Villa
Breakfast is included in our price and we take pleasure in offering a range of choices all using quality produce.
Breakfast at Fern Villa Guest House
Breakfast is served between 7.30am and 8.45am :
We believe that breakfast is an important start to your day and is part of the B&B experience, so it gives us pleasure to offer a selection of tasty freshly cooked hot options.
Choose from our 4 breakfast options for meat and fish lovers or from a choice of 4 dishes for vegetarians/vegans.
Pre-Prepared
Slow Cooked Hamlyns Oatmeal Porridge made with full fat milk.
Our own recipe Bircher Muesli – maybe better known as overnight soaked oats. A mix of 10 dry ingredients stirred through yoghurt and apple juice on a bed of fruit.
Please let us know if you’d prefer either made with non dairy.
At our Self Service Counter
- Selection of cereals
- Yoghurts
- Fresh Fruit
- Fruit Juice
Followed by a choice of Fern Villa's freshly cooked breakfast options
01
Choice 1
Select From :
- Our Butcher’s own Dry Cured Back Bacon
- Our Butcher’s own Pork Sausage
- Free Range Eggs
- Grilled Tomato
- Naughty but nice Mushrooms sauteed in butter
- Stornoway Black Pudding
- McSween Haggis
- Baked Beans
02
Choice 2
Select From :
- A Loch Fyne Kipper (a whole smoked herring, minus the head!)
- Free Range Eggs
- Naughty but nice Mushrooms sauteed in butter
- Grilled Tomato
03
Choice 3
Select From :
- Toasted Bagel
- With either Cream Cheese or Scrambled Egg
- Smoked Salmon
04
Choice 4
Served on Toast
- Scrambled Eggs with Smoked Haddock, Cherry Tomatoes, Chives and Flat Leaf Parsley
Or if you'd prefer a vegetarian or vegan breakfast
05
Choice 5
Select From :
- Vegan Bacon
- Vegan Sausage
- Vegan Black Pudding
- Vegan Haggis
- Grilled Tomato
- Mushrooms
- Baked Beans
- Spiced Scrambled Tofu
- or Egg if desired
06
Choice 6
Select From :
- Scrambled Tofu with onions, tomatoes, mushrooms and spices on toast
- Beans on the side if you wish
07
Choice 7
Select From :
- Herby Mushrooms on toast
- Egg if desired
08
Choice 8
Served on Toast
- Avocado on Toast with olive oil, lime juice, chilli flakes, salt and pepper
- Add some seeds
- Add some roasted peppers
- An egg can be added if desired
- OR
- Avocado on Toast with olive oil, lime juice, chilli flakes, salt and pepper
- Crumbled Feta cheese
- Chopped walnuts
- Cherry tomatoes
- Balsamic dressing
- An egg can be added if desired.
Please advise at the time of booking if you would like a Vegetarian or Vegan Breakfast, this allows us time to shop further afield as not all items can be bought in our local CoOp.
All breakfasts are accompanied by a pot of Taylors Yorkshire Tea, Inverness Coffee Roasting Co cafetiere of coffee or a hot chocolate, toast, butter, jam and marmalade.
Occasionally we may have to substitute some items from our menu due to availability.
Taste Our Best
We have been delighted to have achieved Visit Scotland’s “Taste our Best” accreditation in the past as recognition of our sourcing policy and the quality food we provide.
We take pride in using quality produce and showcasing some of the best local and Scottish Food producers in the breakfast we prepare.
Sadly Visit Scotland no longer run the accreditation scheme but we still operate to these standards.
Check out the provenance of the products used in our breakfast menu.
Meats
- Letterfinlay’s own Dry Cured Back Bacon
- Letterfinlay’s own Pork Sausages
- Charles MacLeod of Stornoway Black Pudding (Letterfinlay)
- Macsweens of Edinburgh Haggis (Letterfinlay)
Seafood
Loch Fyne Kippers* are bought from our fishmonger in either Oban or Fort Wiliam. We buy these by the stone and we then freeze them individually.
The smoked salmon comes from Wester Ross Fisheries and is smoked by Letterfinlay.
The smoked haddock comes from our fishmonger in either Fort William or Oban.
Fruit and Vegetables
- Tomatoes and mushrooms are Scottish when in season and available.
Dairy and Eggs
- Scottish large free range eggs (Letterfinlay)
- Butters used for sauteing mushrooms (supermarket)
- Butter Portions (Letterfinlay)
- Yoghurts (Letterfinlay or supermarket)
- Scottish Milk
Preserves
Mackays Jams and Marmalades which are made in Dundee.
Other
Hamlyn’s Oatmeal, which uses Scottish Oats.**
Ingredients for the Bircher are bought on line from Healthy Supplies.
Other items like bread, fruit, cereals and vegan items are bought from supermarkets.
* Kippers are whole herring, split in the middle and opened out, salted and cold smoked on the bone.
** David gets rave reviews about his porridge, check out what people are saying.
Letterfinlay mentioned several times above is a family business based in Fort William. They deliver to us twice a week which helps us reduce our carbon footprint and the need to freeze items.
Please let us know at the time of booking if you have any allergies or food requirements.
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Food Allergies
If you have any allergies please let us know at time of booking so we can make a note in the diary. Please also check with us each day in case we have had to use any alternative products which aren’t listed below.
As we buy different breads, cereals, yoghurts etc, please check with us on a daily basis if you require information on these items.
Hamlyns Oatmeal – Oatmeal porridge made with milk (please ask if you would like this made with water or a dairy alternative. Please advise in advance). May contain traces of gluten.
Letterfinlay Cranberry and Pecan Muesli – Jumbo Oats, Rye Flakes, Pecan Nuts
Letterfinlay Blueberry and Cornflower Muesli – Jumbo Oats, Rye Flakes, Sultanas (vegetable oil), Raisins (vegetable oil), Blueberry (sugar, vegetable oil), Banana Chips (bananas, Coconut Oil, Refine Cane Sugar, Banana Flavour), Cornflower Petals. The Muesli is mixed by our supplier so may contain traces of gluten.
Fern Villa’s Bircher Muesli – Oats, Barley, Spelt, Oat Bran, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Apple Juice, Yoghurt, Raisins, Sultanas, Cranberries
(There are warnings on some of the packets that they may contain traces of Nuts, Celery, Mustard or Sesame Seeds and some are packed in a factory which also handles nuts, soya and sesame).
Other branded cereals – please ask
Yoghurts, Butter, Milk – Dairy
Letterfinlay Macsween Haggis – Lamb, Beef, Oatmeal, Water, Onions, Salt, Pepper, Spices. May contain traces of nuts.
Letterfinlay Macleod’s Stornoway Black Pudding – Oatmeal, Beef, Suet, Vegetable Fat, Pork Blood, Onions, Salt, Spices.
Letterfinlay own Pork Sausage – Rusk (Gluten), Salt, Wheat Flour (Gluten), Dextrose, Preservative E221 (Sulphites), White Pepper, Nutmeg, Emulsifier E451, Flavour Enhancer, E621. Spice Extract, Antioxidant E301.
Mushrooms sautéed in butter – Dairy (please ask if you would like these cooked with a dairy alternative, please advise in advance)
