Oban SeafoodHut

The green shack on Oban's pier is one of the most famous places to eat on the west coast, and it is, precisely, a shack — a small green-painted hut by the ferry terminal, selling langoustines, oysters, crab and the prawn sandwiches that made its name, landed that morning and cooked to order. John Ogden, a trawlerman who set it up in 1990 after prawn prices collapsed, ran it until his death in 2023; his son Tony keeps it going now, on the same pier, to the same purpose. There is no table service and barely a table — you eat standing on the quay, watching the CalMac boats come and go, for a fraction of what a restaurant would charge for seafood half as fresh. It opens for the season around March. Everything good about the Scottish west coast is in that little green hut: the sea, the catch, and a family who never overcomplicated it.