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We've just added Cameron's Bakery to the website.

A Selkirk baker's that makes the town's own Selkirk Bannock, a round loaf rich with butter and sultanas.

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Did you know3 hours agoWritten byColin FraserRead Colin’s piece

La Lombarda, on the Castlegate in Aberdeen, is the oldest Italian restaurant in the UK.

‘La Lombarda has sat on its corner of Castlegate since 1922 seeing itself through World War II, the demise of the city’s fishing industry and a fair few oil industry crashes. If only restaurants could talk. As for its secret to longevity, I’d say it’s down to its authentic and classic Italian pizzas.’

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Place of the day3 hours ago

Cafe Salmagundi.

A colourful neighbourhood café on Cathcart Road in Mount Florida, near Hampden, for generous breakfasts, lunches and home bakes, Tuesday to Sunday.

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We've just added the Waterwheel Cafe to the website.

A cafe on the Philiphaugh estate by the Ettrick Water, next door to the estate's Salmon Viewing Centre.

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True or false3 hours ago

True or false: marmalade was invented in Dundee, after a Spanish ship carrying Seville oranges sheltered from a storm in the harbour.

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We've just added Cafe Sunart to the website.

The village café in the centre of Strontian, at the head of Loch Sunart, open every day for breakfast and lunch.

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From the magazine2 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 10Issue 10Spring / Summer 2025

Susie Walker Munro, who grows tea on her family's farm in Angus, helped bring in a scientific test that can show whether tea sold as Scottish really was grown in Scotland.

Susie planted her first tea in 2007, and in 2016 she brought together a group of women growers as Tea Gardens of Scotland, with small plantations in abandoned walled gardens and farms across Perthshire, Kincardineshire, Angus and Fife. With Aberdeen University and the Scottish Tea Factory, the growers began using ionomics to test where a tea comes from, so tea passed off as made and grown in Scotland can now be caught out. As she puts it, 'If a customer is paying a higher price for rare Scottish tea they want to know it is genuinely Scottish tea in the tin'.

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From Issue 8 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 81 hour ago

Meet Anna: A Focus on Guardswell Farm

Anna Lamotte on Guardswell, her family's small working farm high on the Braes of the Carse near Dundee, with huts and houses to stay in, produce markets, workshops and weddings.

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Did you know1 hour ago

Caboc, a rich cream cheese rolled in toasted oatmeal and made in Tain, in Easter Ross, is said to go back to a Highland noblewoman of the 15th century.

The story goes that Mariota de Ile, born in 1429 to the Macdonald chiefs of the Isles, took cream that would have been churned into butter and matured it in barrels instead, making a chieftain's cheese. Caboc is still made from cream with no rennet, shaped into a log and rolled in toasted pinhead oatmeal, and it was once a cheese for the wealthy. Highland Fine Cheeses, based in Tain, makes it today, and Susannah Stone of the family that runs it claims to be a direct descendant of Mariota herself. It is served with oatcakes or dry toast.

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Quiz57 minutes ago

Within a year of opening its restaurant in 2021, which Perthshire distillery became the first distillery in the world to win a Michelin star?

Autumn31 minutes ago

What Kingshouse Hotel looks like in autumn.

The old drovers' inn at the head of Glencoe, rebuilt as a hotel and bunkhouse, with a climbers' bar and red deer grazing by the door.

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