The Larder

When your fans include Gordon Ramsay, Clarissa Dickson Wright and Heston Blumenthal, the chances are you’re doing something right. And Peebles-based Linda Dick is certainly doing that. A small family run farming business, Dick and her family’s free…

Established in 2009, Loch Leven currently brew for Scottish beer festivals and for pubs in Fife and Perthshire. Neil Wilkie’s four barrel plant produces four cask beers: Session ale Golden Goose (3.7%); traditional Scottish ale Cock Robin (4.1%); pale…

Almost a nano-brewery rather than a micro-brewery, Stuart McLuckie operates from a one-barrel plant near Cupar. This isn’t a downside for him, as his focus is on small batches, exacting ingredients and historic recipes. Edinburgh 68/- is just one of…

The fourth generation of the Maclean family bakers are now producing shortbread, celebration cakes and oatcakes for their five retail shops in Grantown, Nairn and Forres and wholesale business.

The clue’s in the name, as Parisian-style prints and artefacts, cute lamp-lit tables and a counter hung with garlic and saucisson instantly transport you across the Channel. The owners import meats, cheeses, even butter and paper-wrapped sugar cubes…

This popular lunch stop is appreciated by passers by, walkers, beach combers and locals looking for refreshment on a winding coastal route. Housed in a conservatory which extends to outdoor decking, it has sweeping sea views across Little Loch Broom.

The enlightened face of fish and chips, this trendy little fish café doubles up as a fishmonger, with a counter piled high with oysters, mussels, prawns and other fish delivered fresh from the north coast of Scotland. Expect sustainable pollock or coley…

Since establishing his own operation on his aunt and uncle's Auchtertool farm in 2005, Steve Mitchell has seen strong and steady expansion. His most recent opening stocks his popular water buffalo, beef and 'Juicy' Jacob lamb, and keeps it in the family…

In 2006, Robert Corrigan was part of the Scottish delegation to Slow Food's Terre Madre in Turin, where he heard complaints about chefs not using the more obscure cuts of meat. Back at home, he put in a bulk order for trotters with Ramsay of Carluke…

A six-acre organic farm supplying local hotels and restaurants, the Natural Vegetable Company also offers a local organic box scheme. It aims to supply only Highland produce, specialising in a natural range of seasonal varieties grown on the farm – from…

Norma's Homemade Preserves are on sale at an incredibly popular stall at the Forfar farmers' market. Using ingredients from fellow stallholders, local fruit farms or her own garden, Norma Mitchell makes her preserves at home to her own sacred recipes…

The general public could get their hands on a bottle of Old Worthy as of October 2012, when the first bottles landed on The Good Spirits Co in Glasgow. Owner Nick Ravenhall launched with a slightly unusual strategy: to focus on one beer, and one beer…

The UK's biggest delivered wholesaler includes P&H Snacksdirect and P&H Sweetdirect, the former being the largest direct-to-door van sales operation of its kind in the UK, supplying crisps and sweet and savoury snacks, the latter recently…

A recent addition to the West End, Paula McEwen's kitchen claims an impressive collective CV, including her own experience at the Witchery in Edinburgh. Whether your mood craves burger-comfort or truffle-roasted chicken sophistication, the range between…

Now primarily a café, though still with a deli in the basement, Peckham's layout is slightly random: a few window booths, some window stools, tables tucked at the back and some awkward ones in the middle. But once seated in this imposing dark space…

An old-school wine merchants, Peter Green feels no-nonsense, friendly and traditional, with non of the in-your-face deals or rows of factory wine that big chain stores so often thrust at shoppers. With a bit of a bias towards French vin, there's…

Blankets are provided at Peter’s Yard so you can persevere with alfresco eating even in the colder Scottish months. As testament to its popularity the outdoor tables are filled with coffee-drinking students and pastry-munching professionals all year…

Phantassie is one of a number of organic veg growers offering a box delivery scheme into Edinburgh. It is based on a ten-acre farm near East Linton, which features a productive, 150-year-old walled garden. Phantassie owner Patricia Stephen is one of the…

Pittormie is an old-style farm shop, family-run and first and foremost an outlet for the produce from the farm. It is, however, a prodigious output, with strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries, currants, loganberries and tayberries through the summer…

Mark Smith, a former pupil of Montrose Academy, trained and worked at the Michelen-starred Andrew Fairle restaurant at Gleneagles before opening The Quay with his wife Kerry. With a fantastic setting by the harbour, they have created an unmissable…

Originally leased to Oddbins, Quel Vin's owners (in Kelvinbridge, geddit?) saved it from closure when Oddbins folded, asking the staff to stay on and continue to run the shop for them. Now they have the freedom to stock what they believe in, as well as…

Rama Thai is a fine recent addition to Dundee’s eating out scene and packed most evenings thanks to its local reputation. At lunch it offers a single course for £5.95 or three courses for £8.95, with an evening menu offering more choice. The green and…

This brilliantly named delicatessen stocks lots of interesting products, with the emphasis on superior tasting foods. There's a good range of fine meats and cheeses, and it sells Piper's crisps, the wonder crisps that won no fewer than four Taste awards…