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Pub of the day20 hours ago

The Shore Inn.

Portsoy's oldest pub, a low-ceilinged howff of the 1700s on the old harbour.

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From the magazine19 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 02Issue 02Spring / Summer 2021

Leanne Townsend, who teaches foraging, found her calling as a young woman in rural Aberdeenshire, when she came across yellow chanterelle mushrooms in the mossy birch woods.

Her start came much earlier, when her grandmother took her brambling, picking blackberries in the hedgerows for pies, crumbles and jams. After the chanterelles she moved on to other wild mushrooms, then greens, fruits, flowers, seeds, nuts, seaweeds and herbs. Today she preserves her harvests as jams, pickles and ferments, makes homemade liqueurs, and shares it all through her courses and workshops. 'The wonderful thing about foraging is that even the most seasoned expert still has a lot to learn,' she says. In Scotland you may gather food for your own table without the landowner's permission, as long as you act responsibly.

Read the full story in Issue 02
True or false19 hours ago

True or false: it has been proved that chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow.

Open now18 hours agoPerthshireThe Kirkstyle InnRestaurantSutherlandGolspie InnRestaurantEdinburghDeacon Brodie's TavernRestaurantArgyll and ButeThe Oban InnRestaurantBroadford and SurroundsGlenelg InnRestaurantArgyll and ButeClachaig InnRestaurant

Open right now.

At 20:29, by their own hours. Ring ahead before the drive.

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Did you know18 hours ago

Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie came ashore below Monkstadt House, near Uig, in June 1746.

The Prince was disguised as an Irish spinning maid called Betty Burke, and they landed at a spot still named Rudha Phrionnsa, the Prince's Point. Monkstadt was then the house of the Macdonalds, and Flora went in to dine with Lady Margaret Macdonald, at whose table sat an army officer posted there to watch for the Prince. Flora often laughed with him afterwards about how well she had fooled him. The house, long a ruin, takes guests again today as Monkstadt 1745.

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Did you know17 hours ago

The walled garden beside Raasay House has been brought back to life by the islanders.

Restoration began in 2013, and the 1.43-acre garden has flourished since, full of flowers and vegetables inside its old stone walls. Through the growing season its harvest goes on sale from the Veg Shack just outside the garden gates, put out on Wednesdays at 11 in the morning.

See Raasay House Hotel · Isle of Skye
From the magazine17 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 11Issue 11Autumn / Winter 2025–26

Henry Dobson, a chef who cooked at Noma and as private chef to David Attenborough, serves at Moss in Edinburgh on crockery made from his family farm's clay.

Moss, his first restaurant, opened in January 2025, and although it is in the city, over 90 of its products come straight from his family's 350-acre organic, regenerative farm beside the Glamis Castle estate in Angus. The crockery was made from the farm's clay by his wife, the Japanese artist Akiko. The Scandinavian-inspired room is decorated with homemade textured paint, made with ash from the farm's hardwood so that the walls look like exposed concrete, and Henry built the tables himself from wind-fallen lime trees. The menu follows the farm too, with foraged ingredients, game, meat, vegetables and herbs.

See Moss · Edinburgh
From Issue 11 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 1116 hours ago

Fine Dining Footsteps from the Field: Farm to Fork Dining Experiences

Restaurants on the farms that feed them, from The Free Company at Cockdurno Farm in the Pentland Hills to Errington's Barn, home of Lanark Blue cheese, and farm tables in Fife.

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Opens 10 November16 hours ago

Inverlonan, near Oban, is opening a hotel and restaurant in the restored steading at Ballygowan Farm.

Until now Inverlonan has been three off-grid bothies and a wild-dining table in the hills above Loch Nell. Bookings for the steading are open.

Photograph: Inverlonan on Google MapsSee Inverlonan · Argyll and Bute
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Pubs Where the Food Is Worth Stopping For

A good pub with a good kitchen is one of the best things you can find on a drive round Scotland. From brewery taprooms to village inns with rooms upstairs, these are the pubs where the food is the reason to stop.

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Quiz15 hours 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?

From the magazine15 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 05Issue 05Autumn / Winter 2022-23

William Munro Ferguson makes the UK's most northerly cider in the old stone stables at Novar, a Highland estate on Scotland's northeast coast.

He spent a season in Normandy learning cidermaking from a master, Eric Bordelet. Back home, Highland apples were mainly cookers and eaters, but he needed tannic apples for real depth of flavour, so he headed to Herefordshire and came back with 21 of the hardiest varieties. His seven-acre orchard of 3,000 trees now mixes them with heritage Highland apples on a south-facing slope. Lately he has been experimenting with wild yeast, letting it establish on the crushed apples for 48 hours before pressing. 'The wild yeasts up here work down to around two degrees,' he says.

Read the full story in Issue 05