Rizza's ofHuntly

The Rizzas came to Scotland from Belmonte Castello in 1907, part of the great Italian migration that gave the country its ice cream, and by the 1930s they were making it in Huntly — the first ice-cream factory in the north-east, the family says, and no one seems to argue. Four generations on, the firm is run by Donald Morrison, a great-grandson of the founders, out of a modern plant with a public gallery where you can watch the day's batch being made. The recipe has the medals to justify the loyalty: golds at the national ice-cream championships nearly thirty years apart, in 1997 and again in 2025, the second won with the same recipe as the first. A hundred years of one family making one thing properly, sold from the same Aberdeenshire town — the Italian-Scots ice-cream story at its most durable, and its most delicious.