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The green shopfront of Must Be Crackers! on Dunfermline High Street, its counter and shelves seen through the open door.
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Must Be Crackers!

A cheesemonger and fine food shop on the High Street in Dunfermline, opened in 2023 and named best cheesemonger at the Farm Shop & Deli Retailer Awards 2025.

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Dunfermline's cheesemonger sits on the High Street, a couple of minutes' walk from the abbey, behind a green shopfront that promises great food, thoughtfully sourced.

It opened in September 2023, and within two years it had been named best cheesemonger at the Farm Shop & Deli Retailer Awards 2025, and Highly Commended as Newcomer of the Year. The cheese counter is the heart of the shop, with some of Scotland's finest cheeses on it, and the shelves around it are full of crackers, condiments and good things for the larder, so it's an easy place to put together a picnic or a cheeseboard for the evening. It opens early, at half past eight, from Tuesday to Saturday, and on one Sunday a month, when the Dunfermline City Artisan Market comes to town. Pair it with a wander round the abbey and the palace ruins, Abbot House and Pittencrieff Park, all just along the road.

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Before you go

Opens early, at half past eight, Tuesday to Saturday.

Where
61 High Street, Dunfermline, KY12 7DL.
Open
Tuesday to Saturday 8.30am to 4.30pm, and one Sunday a month, when the Dunfermline City Artisan Market is on.
Contact
contact@mustbecrackers.co.uk

Opening hours

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Monday
Closed
Tuesday
8.30am–4.30pm
Wednesday
8.30am–4.30pm
Thursday
8.30am–4.30pm
Friday
8.30am–4.30pm
Saturday
8.30am–4.30pm
Sunday
Closed

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Where it is

On the High Street in Dunfermline, a couple of minutes from the abbey, KY12 7DL.

Close byDunfermline and the Fife shore of the Forth.
  1. Abbot HouseAbbot HouseDunfermline's oldest house, the coral-pink home of the abbots by the abbey, restored with a coffee shop, a gift shop of local makers and a walled garden.Under a mile 1 min by road
  2. Child runs across a ladybird-themed play park, ice cream van parked behindPittencrieff ParkAn 80-acre park in the centre of Dunfermline, known as the Glen, given to the town by Andrew Carnegie in 1903, with gardens, woods and a burn.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. Stone entrance building with wooden bench, lettering reads "Saint Margaret's CaveSt Margaret's CaveThe little cave below Dunfermline where Queen Margaret of Scotland is said to have prayed in the eleventh century, reached by a tunnel beneath a car park.Under a mile 2 min by road
  4. Dunfermline Abbey and PalaceDunfermline Abbey and PalaceThe royal abbey of Dunfermline, burial place of Robert the Bruce and St Margaret, with a great Romanesque nave and the ruins of a royal palace.2 miles 5 min by road
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