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Aran Bakery's white shopfront on Atholl Street is decorated with a floral awning and flanked by wooden benches, beside a road sign for Blairgowrie and Perth.
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ARAN Bakery

Flora Shedden's bakery on Atholl Street in Dunkeld, named from the Gaelic for bread, with sourdough loaves, pastries, cakes and lunches.

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On Atholl Street in Dunkeld, a white-painted shop in a building two hundred years old has its door hung with dried flowers and its windows lined with bread.

Visited and photographed by Simon Hird

ARAN was opened by Flora Shedden, the youngest semi-finalist on the Great British Bake Off in 2015, and its name is the Gaelic word for bread.

Inside, the shelves are stacked with dark-crusted sourdough loaves, and the counter is crowded with pastries, cinnamon buns, tarts and cakes, with coffee from the machine and the bakers at work in the open kitchen behind. At lunchtime there are sandwiches and savoury bakes to take away down to the river or the cathedral lawns.

The bakery opens at half past nine, or ten on Sundays, and the best of the bread and buns goes early.

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Before you go

Open from half past nine in the morning, ten on Sundays.

Loaves and pastries sell out, so earlier is better.

Where
2 Atholl Street, Dunkeld PH8 0AR.
Telephone
01350 727029.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
9.30am–3.30pm
Tuesday
9.30am–3.30pm
Wednesday
9.30am–3.30pm
Thursday
9.30am–3.30pm
Friday
9.30am–3.30pm
Saturday
9.30am–3.30pm
Sunday
10am–3.30pm

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A sandwich board outside Aran Bakery lists sourdough, cakes, pastries, coffee and lunch beside its entrance.
Did you know

A word for bread.

Aran is the Gaelic word for bread or a loaf.

The 'ARAN BAKERY' sign hangs beneath a floral wreath below a street sign reading 'ATHOLL STREET'.
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From the Bake Off.

Flora Shedden was the youngest semi-finalist on the Great British Bake Off in 2015.

The white shopfront of ARAN Bakery on Atholl Street, Dunkeld.
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An old building.

The bakery is in a building on Atholl Street some two hundred years old.

Ben Lerwill

From our guide to Perthshire

The words ‘artisan bakery’ are generally enough to get any right-thinking stomach rumbling, and Dunkeld’s ARAN doesn’t disappoint. Putting a creative twist on classic items (think spelt and sesame sourdough, buttered leek and brie toasties, and even bacon sandwiches with rhubarb ketchup), it also does a mean line in cakes, tarts and brownies.

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On Atholl Street in the middle of Dunkeld.

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  4. Gothic arched windows line the sandstone cathedral beside a mossy treeDunkeld CathedralThe ruined medieval cathedral of Dunkeld, on the lawns by the Tay.Under a mile 1 min by road
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A red timber cabin with a steep pitched roof stands on a hillside among pines, a covered deck and chairs to one side.Juniper
  • Sleeps 2
  • In Dunkeld
  • Under a mile from ARAN
Check datesAn aerial view shows a stone and timber cottage with a round hot tub in the garden, hills rising behind a dry stone wall.Pheasant Cottage
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Kincraigie
  • 5 miles from ARAN
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  • Sleeps 4
  • In Perthshire
  • 5 miles from ARAN
Check datesA stone cottage with a gabled dormer window catches evening light among autumn trees, a bench and picnic table on the gravel outside.Charlottefield
  • Sleeps 4
  • In Tulliemet
  • 7 miles from ARAN
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