Chaplin’s Coffee House & Ice Cream Parlour

The Cairngorms


Traditional family cafe selling delicious homemade ice cream.

In the early 1970s, former silent movie star Charlie Chaplin used to holiday in Grantown and take his family for ice cream at this shop.


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