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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 know2 hours ago

Robert Singer and his daughter Saskia, both artists, began baking sourdough in Ayr as part of Narture, their plan to revive the old town centre through food and art.

Robert trained as a chef and baker and spent years in catering, but art had been his passion since childhood, and in his mid-forties he won a place at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2001. Saskia graduated in Fine Art in 2019. In 2020 they set up Narture together, a play on nurture, nature and art, and their experiments with food and art at home grew into a sourdough bakery and café, alongside pop-up exhibitions in empty shops in the town centre. The bread is naturally fermented and baked for taste, and as Robert puts it, 'Bread is the original food made that could neither be foraged nor hunted'.

See Narture Sourdough Bakery · Ayrshire

Café of the day1 hour ago

Bare Bones Chocolate.

Bean-to-bar chocolate made in small batches in Glasgow's railway arches, with a shop on King Street for hot chocolate, bars and gifts.

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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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Fort WilliamThe Wildcat

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AberdeenContour Cafe

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Eating well without meat is easy in Scotland now, whether the kitchen is fully vegetarian or simply cooks its vegetables with real care. From city institutions to island cafes, these are our favourite places to eat.

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From the magazine3 minutes ago

Issue 04Spring / Summer 2022

Alex Murray, born and bred in Portsoy on the Aberdeenshire coast, grew up working on a dairy farm before he opened the Portsoy Ice Cream café in the village in 2003.

That upbringing gave the business an element of continuity, and the much-vaunted café has gone on to win award after award for its artisan ice creams and sorbets. Portsoy itself is a charming coastal village to visit at any time of year, with winding streets and an attractive harbour. Look out too for the local jewellery, made from a serpentinite stone known as Portsoy marble. A wander round the harbour followed by a cone from Alex's café is a lovely way to spend an afternoon on this stretch of the coast.

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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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GlasgowWillow GroveCafe

Coffee first.

The coffee shops we go back to: the beans, the bread, and a seat by the window.

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Somewhere to eatJust now

Tickled Trout Café, Perthshire.

A family-run cafe in an old beetling mill at College Mill Trout Farm by Almondbank, beside the River Almond, with soups, sandwiches and cakes and dogs welcome.

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Scottish BordersCameron's BakeryCafe

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ArdnamurchanCafe SunartCafe

ArdnamurchanThe Coal Shed CaféCafe

Argyll and ButeThe BlairmoreCafe

InvernessHarry GowCafe

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From Scottish Borders, Ardnamurchan and Argyll and Bute.

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Issue 06Spring / Summer 2023

At Baern Café in St Monans, in the East Neuk of Fife, leftover kimchi juice goes into the sourdough and corn from the soup becomes a sweetcorn and tarragon lemonade.

The chef Hazel Powell and the baker Giacomo Pesce share an ethos built on the seasons, the environment and zero waste, so Baern's leftovers always get used somehow. Their small menu changes weekly and comes almost entirely from their neighbours at Bowhouse, a hub set up to connect small growers and producers with restaurants and shoppers. The vegetables come from a nearby market garden, the fish is landed in St Monans, and the flour for the bread comes from Scotland The Bread, which grows small-scale heritage grains for their goodness rather than for yield. Ask Hazel what visitors must try and she names the sausage rolls, 'And always the bread'.