Sutherland Food & Drink in Sutherland 3 places. Stay Eat Do Shops All Scotland → Cafés See all → The Elphin Tearooms Tearoom on the A835 at Elphin, on the Sutherland-Wester Ross border between Ullapool and Lochinver. Soup, sandwiches and home baking, a long-standing road-trip stop on the route north. Pubs See all → The Tartan Lounge & Bar bannockburn inn Bar and restaurant at the Bannockburn Inn on the A9/NC500 at Helmsdale, with home-cooked food, steaks and pizzas. Other food & drink An Cala Bunkhouse and Café Bunkhouse and café on Culag Road in Lochinver, on the Assynt coast. Affordable shared and private rooms above a daytime café, a common Sutherland touring base for walkers and cyclists.