The Village Rest

This café was the bomb! Very charming café in a very charming village. The wait staff was very attentive, the food was excellent, and the owners Ian and Kevin were very nice and engaging. We went in for breakfast, and I had the Full Scottish Breakfast. Yummy! Luckily, I was hungry, because it was a lot of food. The black pudding, ham, potatoes, all very good! It’s located on the main street leading into the village. Great to stop in before and after a day in the «Loveliest Village in Scotland». Can not recommend this place enough.

Lovely little café in Luss Village with quite a varied menu and is also licensed.
We were passing tonight and decided to sit outside and have a wee drink before heading home and it was just lovely.
You can go in and order at the bar and then bring your drinks outside or you can also order food as all the tables outside are numbered.
There is a small area at the back of the café that sells gifts and cards.
Definetly a must visit when in the area.

I arrived jut after the opening. Had the restaurant for myself. Took a latte and a slice if cake.
Crème brûlée cheesecake here is heaven!!! So not hesitate to take it!
Lovely breakfast.

Lovely little place. Good prices. Lovely staff friendly and efficient Would highly recommend. Our waitress was Julia. Lovely girl.

A real nice wee independent coffee shop in the village of Luss. Nicely decorated with plenty of seating area inside & out.
Friendly & chatty staff.
Decent tasting coffee & pretty reasonable prices.
Freshly baked scones on display with cakes & ice cream.
Definitely a recommendation to visit this place if you ever pass through Luss.

Quickly becoming a family tradition at Xmas, we took the short journey from Glasgow to Luss between chrimbo and Hogmannay. This wee bistro is tucked away down one of the village side streets and is a bit of a tourist mecca.
There’s a really great value kids menu as well as standard fare pub type menu for perusal. This time I opted for the Broccoli and Cheddar soup with ploughman type sarnie (ham, cheddar, picle, salad, etc) on a rye bloomer. Sarnie was goo with the bread a lovely solid malty accompaniment. Maybe too much for lunch as a bit heavy when combined with the soup. Past visits I stuck to the house ham and lentil — knock out.
This time the soup was cold — still tasty but a bit of a let down on a Scottish winter night. Around £40 quid with tip added on so make sure your appetite is whetted. To be fair that included our drinks but the kids menu is tasty (pinch their chicken goujons — better than the Colonels :)) and very cheap.
All in all — decent return if hungry and usually very good quality at a city bistro price (but hey — it is a tourist trap so expect those prices).

Stopped here for an early dinner while traveling back to our B&B. It was fairly empty at the time as it was not the usual dining time and it did fill up as we were leaving. The service was friendly and attentive. Our orders were taken pretty quickly and our food didn’t take too long to arrive. We ordered the chicken, bacon, much room penne and battered haddock. Both were very delicious with sizable portions, which we unfortunately could not finish.
Overall it was a great dining experience with great food. Highly recommend for anyone in Luss with a big appetite.

A cute, unusual café in the heart of the conservation village. The food is very decent. It is a very bright, surprisingly large space, and pretty much the only place I’ve seen an actual advert selling a horse carriage. Random!

The wife and me had dinner here on the second night of our stay in Luss and the second night of avoiding our own hotel’s ridiculously overpriced menu.
The Village Rest looks great on the outside; small, charming and (to use a Gordon Ramsay soundbite) rustic! As expected the menu offering was simple fare, which was fine by us. I had fish and chips while Julie had mac n cheese. At £9.45 for mac n cheese, I thought it was a wee bit expensive. The fish and chips was okay and nothing more; I don’t think the fish was all that fresh and given that the place is literally three minutes walk from the Loch lomond shoreline is pretty unforgivable.
That being said, service was good and the location made eating a pleasurable experience.

We stopped on a wet Sunday afternoon on our way back to Glasgow airport from Loch Awe. The place was busy, the staff were attentive. The late lunch of homemade cullen skink and a wonderful British afternoon tea of scone, cream and jam hit the spot. Lots of cream with the jam and a light fluffy scone… DEEP JOY!
The place is a gem in a wonderful little village on the banks of Loch Lomand… stop and also check out the new hotel down the road that is opening soon… it looked a great design.
My only suggestion is that they need a ‘meeter greeter’ as the wait to be seated sign is a little impersonal and every client seemed to hover at the door until they were spotted by the staff.