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A selection of standout places across Dumfries & Galloway
Ballards Butchers
Ballards Butchers trades from 152 King Street in Castle Douglas, in the town…
RestLakeview Guest House
Lakeview Guest House stands at 19 Agnew Crescent on the Stranraer seafront,…
SnugPleuchie's Howff
Pleuchie's Howff occupies 97 Annan Road on the edge of Dumfries, a ten-minute…
WorkshopTrevor Leat Willow Sculptor
Trevor Leat works from Minnoch on Main Street in Auchencairn, weaving willow…
TableJinty-B's Tearoom
Jinty-B's Tearoom occupies 68 Drumlanrig Street in the centre of Thornhill, run…
CounterFlourish
Flourish occupies a ground-floor unit at 111 High Street in Dumfries, within…
Grounds
Café A' the Airts
Sanquhar, SCO
A community café on Sanquhar's High Street, run as part of the town's regeneration trust. Serves…
First Bite
Langholm, SCO
A cafe on Langholm's High Street run by baker Nicole Beattie, serving breakfasts, lunches and…
Galloway Plant Company
Whithorn, SCO
Galloway Plant Company propagates and sells plants grown in the adjoining Claymoddie Garden near…
Street-lights Coffee House
Castle Douglas, SCO
Street-lights Coffee House sits at 187 King Street in Castle Douglas, among the more than fifty…
The Scone Kitchen
Gatehouse of Fleet, SCO
A small bakery-café on Gatehouse of Fleet's High Street specialising in scones alongside other home…
Three Villages Cafe
Penpont, SCO
A café in the Toll House on Penpont's Main Street, open Wednesday to Sunday for breakfast and…
Table
Cafe Rendezvous
Wigtown, SCO
Cafe Rendezvous occupies a small corner unit on Agnew Crescent in Wigtown, Scotland's National Book…
Castle Street Bistro
Kirkcudbright, SCO
Castle Street Bistro occupies one of the smallest dining rooms in Kirkcudbright, seating around six…
Claudio's Restaurant
Moffat, SCO
Claudio and Florence Capriglione opened Claudio's on Burnside Road in Moffat in 1996, and the…
Designs Gallery & Café
Castle Douglas, SCO
Designs Gallery & Café opened its doors on King Street in Castle Douglas in 1995 and still runs as…
Earth's Crust Bakery
Castle Douglas, SCO
Tom and Pavlina van Rooyen opened Earth's Crust on Castle Douglas's St Andrew Street in 2015, after…
Feast Cafe
Kirkcudbright, SCO
Feast Cafe on St Cuthbert Street serves an almost entirely vegetarian and vegan menu of focaccia,…
Galloway Lodge
Gatehouse of Fleet, SCO
Ruaridh and Naomi Hesketh run Galloway Lodge from Fleet Vale on the High Street in Gatehouse of…
Jake Irving Ceramics
Kirkcudbright, SCO
Jake Irving throws sculptural pottery figures from red earthenware clay in his Kirkcudbright studio…
Jinty-B's Tearoom
Thornhill, SCO
Jinty-B's Tearoom occupies 68 Drumlanrig Street in the centre of Thornhill, run by owner Janet,…
ReadingLasses Bookshop & Cafe
Wigtown, SCO
Dr Jacqui Robertson has owned ReadingLasses on South Main Street in Wigtown since 2015, running…
Larder
Ballards Butchers
Castle Douglas, SCO
Ballards Butchers trades from 152 King Street in Castle Douglas, in the town promoted as Scotland's…
Earth's Crust Bakery
Castle Douglas, SCO
Tom and Pavlina van Rooyen opened Earth's Crust on Castle Douglas's St Andrew Street in 2015, after…
Ernespie Farm Shop & Kitchen
Castle Douglas, SCO
Ernespie Farm Shop & Kitchen sits on the Old Military Road outside Castle Douglas, on the dairy…
Galloway Lodge
Gatehouse of Fleet, SCO
Ruaridh and Naomi Hesketh run Galloway Lodge from Fleet Vale on the High Street in Gatehouse of…
Grierson Bros Butchers
Castle Douglas, SCO
Tom Grierson runs Grierson Bros on King Street in Castle Douglas, the fourth generation of his…
John D Owen & Son
Newton Stewart, SCO
John D Owen & Son has traded as a family butcher on Victoria Street in Newton Stewart since 1925.…
John Gillespie & Sons
Stranraer, SCO
John Gillespie & Sons has traded as a bakery on King Street in Stranraer since 1868, making it the…
Kilnford Farm Shop & Farmhouse Kitchen Café
Dumfries, SCO
Kilnford Farm Shop and Farmhouse Kitchen Café sits on the Rome family's working farm outside…
Loch Arthur Creamery & Farm Shop
Beeswing, SCO
Loch Arthur Creamery and Farm Shop sits within the Loch Arthur Camphill Community at Beeswing,…
Moffat Toffee Shop
Moffat, SCO
Moffat Toffee Shop trades from 13 High Street in Moffat, making Moffat toffee to a recipe first…
Skipper's Fishmonger
Kirkcudbright, SCO
Skipper's is the shop-front of West Coast Sea Products, the King family's scallop business, named…
Steven Cronnie Family Butcher
Newton Stewart, SCO
Steven Cronnie Family Butcher operates from 87 Queen Street in Newton Stewart. Steven Cronnie took…
Culture
Clience Studio
Castle Douglas, SCO
Clience Studio is painter Angela Lawrence's working studio and gallery beneath the clocktower on…
Craigard Gallery
Wigtown, SCO
Craigard Gallery occupies a shopfront on North Main Street in Wigtown and is run by printmaker…
Designs Gallery & Café
Castle Douglas, SCO
Designs Gallery & Café opened its doors on King Street in Castle Douglas in 1995 and still runs as…
Ochre Gallery & Studio
Gatehouse of Fleet, SCO
Ochre Gallery and Studio is the working studio of landscape painter Richard Brinley, now based at…
The CatStrand
New Galloway, SCO
An arts and visitor centre on New Galloway's High Street, housed in the town's former school…
The Ethical Dairy
Gatehouse of Fleet, SCO
Rainton Farm near Gatehouse of Fleet is the first commercial dairy in the country to farm the…
The Old Bakery Gallery
Newton Stewart, SCO
A contemporary art gallery on Goods Lane in Newton Stewart, showing paintings, sculpture, textiles,…
Whitehouse Gallery
Kirkcudbright, SCO
Lynne Atkinson manages Whitehouse Gallery on St Mary Street in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and…
Workshop
Carrot Top Design
Sanquhar, SCO
A maker's shop on Sanquhar's High Street run by designer Kirsty Young, reworking the town's…
Clay Works Studios
Dumfries, SCO
Clay Works Studios operates from Solway House on the former Crichton hospital campus in Dumfries,…
Falu Studios
Dumfries, SCO
Falu Studios sits on the Annan Road on the edge of Dumfries, combining a permanent exhibition of…
Jake Irving Ceramics
Kirkcudbright, SCO
Jake Irving throws sculptural pottery figures from red earthenware clay in his Kirkcudbright studio…
The Wee Pottery
Kirkcudbright, SCO
The Wee Pottery operates a paint-your-own studio inside the Johnston Centre, the former Johnston…
Trevor Leat Willow Sculptor
Auchencairn, SCO
Trevor Leat works from Minnoch on Main Street in Auchencairn, weaving willow into baskets, hurdles,…
Counter
Dalbeattie Books
Dalbeattie, SCO
A small independent bookshop on Dalbeattie High Street, stocking new, remaindered and secondhand…
Flourish
Dumfries, SCO
Flourish occupies a ground-floor unit at 111 High Street in Dumfries, within the Midsteeple Quarter…
Foggie Toddle Books
Wigtown, SCO
A few doors along Wigtown's book row from Shaun Bythell's giant sits its specialist counterweight:…
New Chapter Books
Wigtown, SCO
One of Wigtown's book shops, stocking fiction, non-fiction, history, and local-interest titles…
Ochre Gallery & Studio
Gatehouse of Fleet, SCO
Ochre Gallery and Studio is the working studio of landscape painter Richard Brinley, now based at…
Old Bank Bookshop
Wigtown, SCO
Ian and Joyce Cochrane run the Old Bank Bookshop from a former bank building at 7 South Main Street…
Palnackie Village Shop
Palnackie, SCO
The general store for Palnackie, a small village on the Urr Water near Dalbeattie, stocking…
ReadingLasses Bookshop & Cafe
Wigtown, SCO
Dr Jacqui Robertson has owned ReadingLasses on South Main Street in Wigtown since 2015, running…
Rhubarb
Kirkcudbright, SCO
Rhubarb occupies 25 St Mary Street in Kirkcudbright, opposite St Cuthbert's Church, and is run by a…
The Book Warren
Sanquhar, SCO
The Book Warren trades from a rural site at Auchengruith outside Sanquhar, stocking new, vintage…
The Bookshop
Wigtown, SCO
Shaun Bythell bought The Bookshop on the first of November 2001, aged thirty, and has spent the…
Thomas Tosh
Thornhill, SCO
Thomas Tosh occupies Thornhill's former parish hall, bought in April 2008 by David Cripps and Paul…
Cellar
Annandale Distillery
Annan, SCO
David Thomson and Teresa Church bought the derelict Annandale Distillery in Annan in 2007 and…
Bladnoch Distillery
Wigtown, SCO
Bladnoch Distillery has stood on the River Bladnoch outside Wigtown since 1817, making it…
Galloway Distillery
Newton Stewart, SCO
Galloway Distillery occupies a visitor centre just off the A75 roundabout on Wigtown Road, on the…
Lowland Brewing
Lockerbie, SCO
Lowland Brewing has run a five-barrel micro-brewery from converted premises on Well Street in…
Portpatrick Brewery
Kirkcolm, SCO
A small brewery on Main Street in Kirkcolm producing cask and bottle-conditioned ales, including a…
Sulwath Brewers
Castle Douglas, SCO
Jim and Helen Henderson founded Sulwath in Castle Douglas in 1996, and their son Allen runs it now…
TB Watson
Dumfries, SCO
TB Watson has traded on English Street in Dumfries since 1909, moving from its original outfitting…
Snug
Cavens Arms
Dumfries, SCO
Shona and Jimmy Hair took over the Cavens Arms on Buccleuch Street in Dumfries in 2026, buying the…
Masonic Arms
Gatehouse of Fleet, SCO
The Masonic Arms occupies a building put up by local Freemasons in 1785 on Ann Street in Gatehouse…
Pleuchie's Howff
Dumfries, SCO
Pleuchie's Howff occupies 97 Annan Road on the edge of Dumfries, a ten-minute walk from the railway…
Sulwath Brewers
Castle Douglas, SCO
Jim and Helen Henderson founded Sulwath in Castle Douglas in 1996, and their son Allen runs it now…
The Farmers Inn
Clarencefield, SCO
A 300-year-old inn on the main street of Clarencefield, run personally by its proprietors with real…
The Kings Arms (Ballantrae Community Pub)
Ballantrae, SCO
Ballantrae's last remaining pub, bought by the Ballantrae Trust in 2020 and run day-to-day by…
The Station
Kirkpatrick Fleming, SCO
The Station is a village pub, bar and restaurant on the main road through Kirkpatrick Fleming, run…
The Steam Packet Inn
Isle of Whithorn, SCO
The Steam Packet Inn sits on Harbour Row overlooking the small fishing harbour at Isle of Whithorn,…
Wigtown Ploughman
Wigtown, SCO
The Wigtown Ploughman reopened on South Main Street in March 2025 after Wigtown Community Inn…
Rest
Douglas House
Castle Douglas, SCO
Douglas House is a bed and breakfast in an early 19th-century town house at 63 Queen Street in…
Gladstone House
Kirkcudbright, SCO
Gladstone House is a Georgian townhouse on Kirkcudbright's High Street, run as a three-room bed and…
Knockinaam Lodge
Portpatrick, SCO
Knockinaam Lodge was built in 1869 as a hunting lodge for the Hunter-Blair family and now operates…
Lakeview Guest House
Stranraer, SCO
Lakeview Guest House stands at 19 Agnew Crescent on the Stranraer seafront, overlooking Loch Ryan…
Somerton House Hotel
Lockerbie, SCO
A family-run hotel in a late-Victorian mansion just off the M74 corridor, offering en-suite rooms,…
Stables Guest House
Newton Stewart, SCO
Fay and Dane run Stables Guest House on Corsbie Road in Newton Stewart, a five-bedroom guest house…
The Famous Star Hotel
Moffat, SCO
The Famous Star Hotel has stood on Moffat High Street since the late eighteenth century and holds…
Woodlyn Guest House
Gatehouse of Fleet, SCO
Woodlyn Guest House operates from a refurbished property on Castramont Road, a short walk from…
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