Sir Bob Geldof was delighted by a popular Scottish bar and restaurant after popping in for lunch - so much so that he even brought his bandmates back the next day.
The star was in Speyside for the MacMoray Festival when he visited the popular Drouthy Cobbler pub in Elgin.
The music legend was so impressed after he visited ahead of his headline show at the festival on Saturday (April 16), that he couldn't resist coming back again the next day for lunch with the rest of the Boomtown Rats.
Restaurant manager Clodagh Anderson was delighted to have Sir Bob in the bar both days.
She said: “With the festival in town we did wonder if any of the artists would have time to get out and about, Sir Bob came in on his own for lunch on the Saturday and loved it so much he brought The Boomtown Rats with him for lunch the following day.
"He was a great laugh and had fun with a group of our regular guests."
The popular bar reopened last summer after a refurb, with new owners, former Craigellachie Hotel director Kevin Smith and partner Tony Pollock, who also owns a hair salon in Inverness, looking to create a greater emphasis on food.
The bar and restaurant is hugely popular with not only local residents but also tourists and visitors to the region.
It offers a top-quality menu of seasonal dishes and comfort food classics made using locally sourced ingredients such as pork and black pudding Scotch eggs, Grants of Speyside Haggis Bon Bons and Geddes Farm Pork Loin.
They also offer a wide range of Scottish Gins and whiskies – as you'd expect in Speyside – as well as expertly made speciality cocktails and even a Rosé wine created by American rock star Jon Bon Jovi and his son Jesse.
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