CROFT ORIGINAL
Jeanette Cutlack would walk past a ruined barn in Fanmore on the Isle of Mull and dream about what it could become. “I would imagine sheep on the hillside and food growing next to the barn,” she says. That dream has now become a reality with the help of Londonbased architecture studio Fardaa, which has transformed the dilapidated stone building into Croft 3, a timber-beamed, 18-cover restaurant. Previously, Cutlack, who uses locally sourced produce in her dishes (and makes Mull's only commercially available haggis), worked from a home kitchen. Now, she has extra space to cook, serve and grow. “This is a special project that would not have been possible without my parents, who passed away during the build,” she adds.
