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Uile-bheist Distillery & Brewery
Uile-bheist opened in 2023 on Ness Bank in Inverness, on the River Ness in the…
LarderFraser Brothers
Fraser Brothers has traded as a family butcher in Dingwall since 1888, when the…
CounterHAVØRN
HAVØRN sells curated Scottish art and handcraft from a former Bank of Scotland…
SnugThe Arch Inn
The Arch Inn occupies one of the oldest buildings in Ullapool, a harbour town…
CultureWorking Sheepdogs (Leault Farm)
Working Sheepdogs operates from Leault Farm at Kincraig, where Neil Ross has…
TableDeli in the Square
Deli in the Square occupies a building on Strathpeffer's central square that…
Grounds
Bakhoos Bakery
Fortrose, SCO
Bakery and coffee counter on Fortrose High Street run by husband-and-wife team Scott MacKenzie and…
Cafe Biagiotti
Beauly, SCO
Italian pasticceria and coffee bar on Beauly's High Street, serving espresso alongside handmade…
Cafe Sunart
Strontian, SCO
Small independent café in the centre of Strontian, on the Ardnamurchan road with indoor seating and…
Inverness Coffee Roasting Co
Inverness, SCO
Kev and Heather Donnachie run this roastery from an industrial unit on Lotland Street,…
IV10 Café Bar Deli
Fortrose, SCO
IV10 is an independent café, bar and deli on Fortrose High Street, opened in 2018 by Emma and…
Mountain Coffee Company
Gairloch, SCO
A café, secondhand bookshop and small guesthouse combined under one roof at Strath Square in…
Riverbank Crafts & Plants
Conon Bridge, SCO
A family-run nursery of some 40 years' standing on Riverbank Road outside Dingwall grows its own…
The Flower Shop, Nairn
Nairn, SCO
Independent florist on Nairn's High Street offering made-to-order bouquets, wedding and funeral…
Waterside Cafe
Lochcarron, SCO
Cafe on Lochcarron's Main Street overlooking Loch Carron, serving coffee, cakes and light lunches…
Table
Cafe Bistro
Kingussie, SCO
Cafe Bistro occupies a shopfront on Kingussie's High Street, where chef-owner Andrew runs the…
Deli in the Square
Strathpeffer, SCO
Deli in the Square occupies a building on Strathpeffer's central square that renovation work…
Gold at the Old Station
Strathpeffer, SCO
The café occupies restored rooms of Strathpeffer's former Victorian railway station, alongside a…
Highland Farm Cafe
Dingwall, SCO
Kenneth McKenzie owns Highland Farm Cafe at Mountgerald, just outside Dingwall, an eco-built cafe…
Househill Cafe & Farmshop
Nairn, SCO
Househill Cafe & Farmshop operates from a courtyard on a working beef farm on the Grantown Road…
KJ's Bothy Bakery
Grantown-on-Spey, SCO
Kirsten Gilmour, known locally as KJ, ran the Mountain Cafe in Aviemore for sixteen years before…
La Taverna, Aviemore
Aviemore, SCO
La Taverna occupies a single dining room within the High Range holiday complex on Grampian Road in…
Lochleven Seafood Cafe
Onich, SCO
Alison and John Grieve opened Lochleven Seafood Cafe at Onich, on the shore of Loch Leven near…
ONE ONE TWO Wine Bar and Eatery
Nairn, SCO
ONE ONE TWO is a family-run wine bar and eatery on Nairn High Street, trading since 2016. Small…
Route 7 Cafe
Aviemore, SCO
Route 7 is a family-run café on the second floor of the Highland Home Centre in Aviemore's Dalfaber…
Sutor Creek
Cromarty, SCO
An independent cafe and restaurant near Cromarty harbour serving fresh Scottish seafood and…
The Ceilidh Place
Ullapool, SCO
Actor Robert Urquhart founded The Ceilidh Place in Ullapool in 1970 as a gathering place for…
Larder
A&I Quality Butchers, Culloden
Culloden, Inverness, SCO
A&I Quality Butchers has traded from Culloden Shopping Centre on Keppoch Road, Inverness, since…
B. Clark & Son Butchers
Nairn, SCO
Family-run butcher on Leopold Street in Nairn, selling Scotch beef, pork and lamb sourced from…
Corner on the Square
Beauly, SCO
A delicatessen and eaterie on Beauly's High Street, opened in 2003 by Gary Williamson, who had…
Elephants in the Pantry
Grantown-on-Spey, SCO
Elephants in the Pantry is a delicatessen on Grantown-on-Spey's High Street, stocking Scottish…
Farine Bakery
Fort William, SCO
Farine Bakery occupies a unit on Fort William's High Street, opened by Coalin Finn and Kristina…
Fraser Brothers
Dingwall, SCO
Fraser Brothers has traded as a family butcher in Dingwall since 1888, when the Fraser brothers…
Grants of Speyside
Grantown-on-Spey, SCO
The Grant family have been making haggis since the eighteen-hundreds — the recipe traces to Jessie…
Highland Farm Cafe
Dingwall, SCO
Kenneth McKenzie owns Highland Farm Cafe at Mountgerald, just outside Dingwall, an eco-built cafe…
Lochaber Farm Shop
Fort William, SCO
Lochaber Farm Shop, based at the Lochaber Rural Complex outside Fort William, sells local beef,…
Lochaber Larder
Fort William, SCO
Lochaber Larder is a butcher's the way a butcher's should be in the Highlands — Scotch beef and…
Lochleven Seafood Cafe
Onich, SCO
Alison and John Grieve opened Lochleven Seafood Cafe at Onich, on the shore of Loch Leven near…
Merchant's Delicatessen
Inverness, SCO
Merchant's Delicatessen occupies a unit in the redeveloped Merchant House on Castle Street,…
Culture
Abriachan Garden Nursery
Loch Ness Side, SCO
Abriachan Garden Nursery occupies a steep hillside above Loch Ness, at Loch Ness Side between…
Castle Gallery
Inverness, SCO
Castle Gallery opened on Castle Street in April 2001, when Denise Collins, who already ran a…
Cromarty Courthouse Museum
Cromarty, SCO
Run by a local trust since it opened in 1991, this museum occupies Cromarty's 1773 courthouse and…
Eden Court
Inverness, SCO
The Highlands' largest single-site arts venue, opened in 1976 around a building that began in 1878…
Groam House Museum
Rosemarkie, SCO
A small independent museum on the Black Isle holding a nationally significant collection of Pictish…
Highland Cinema, Fort William
Fort William, SCO
Highland Cinema opened in Cameron Square, Fort William, on 25 September 2020, self-funded by local…
Highland Museum of Childhood
Strathpeffer, SCO
Highland Museum of Childhood occupies part of the restored Victorian station building at…
Kilmorack Gallery
Beauly, SCO
Kilmorack Gallery occupies a former parish church at Kilmorack, by Beauly, converted by owner Tony…
Resipole Studios
Acharacle, SCO
Fine art gallery on the shore of Loch Sunart in Ardnamurchan, converted from a 19th-century milking…
Scottish Flair Art Gallery
Inverness, SCO
Family-run fine art gallery on Bank Street in Inverness city centre, established in 2004 and…
Ullapool Museum
Ullapool, SCO
Ullapool Museum occupies 7 and 8 West Argyle Street in the centre of the village. Ullapool Museum…
West Highland Museum
Fort William, SCO
Victor Hodgson founded the West Highland Museum in 1922, gathering the first exhibits with no…
Workshop
Black Isle Woodturning
Dingwall, SCO
Black Isle Woodturning is a one-person workshop run by Andy Walters from a converted school at…
Chisholms Highland Dress
Inverness, SCO
A family-run kiltmaker at 47-53 Castle Street, trading since 1956 and still owned by the Chisholm…
Colin Campbell & Co Jewellers
Inverness, SCO
Colin Campbell & Co has traded as a family-run goldsmith and jeweller since 1971, moving into its…
Loch-an-Eilein Pottery
Aviemore, SCO
Loch-an-Eilein Pottery sits on the Rothiemurchus Estate on the road down to Loch an Eilein, a few…
Smarty Art
Grantown-on-Spey, SCO
This family-owned studio on Grantown-on-Spey's High Street lets visitors pick an unpainted ceramic…
Spey Bank Studio
Grantown-on-Spey, SCO
Spey Bank Studio occupies the former Bank of Scotland branch at 1 The Square in Grantown-on-Spey,…
The Potter's House
Muir of Ord, SCO
The Potter's House is a family-run open pottery studio on the Muir of Ord Industrial Estate,…
The Slip Studio Nairn
Nairn, SCO
A ceramics studio in Nairn run by a working potter, selling decorating slips and glazes to other…
Woodland Pottery & Crafts
Strontian, SCO
Pottery workshop and shop in the centre of Strontian on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, with production…
Counter
Granite House
Fort William, SCO
A family-run gift shop at 74 High Street in Fort William, trading on the town's pedestrianised main…
Greens Nurseries, Nairn
Nairn, SCO
Greens Nurseries occupies New Fleenas Farm outside Nairn, where Colin and Dorothy Green settled in…
HAVØRN
Ullapool, SCO
HAVØRN sells curated Scottish art and handcraft from a former Bank of Scotland building on West…
Highflight Bookshop
Dingwall, SCO
Opened in 2011, this Dingwall shop specialises in secondhand aviation titles built up from the…
Inshriach Alpine Nursery
Aviemore, SCO
An alpine plant nursery founded in 1938 by plant collector Jack Drake in the grounds of Inshriach…
Leakey's Bookshop
Inverness, SCO
Leakey's fills a former Gaelic church in the middle of Inverness — a great galleried hall of a…
Picaresque Books & Galerie Fantoosh
Dingwall, SCO
An independent bookshop and small gallery on Dingwall High Street run by David and Cath Duguid,…
Speyside Heather Centre
Dulnain Bridge, SCO
Founded in 1972 by David and Betty Lambie, who moved north from Lanarkshire and lived in a caravan…
The Bookmark
Grantown-on-Spey, SCO
The Bookmark occupies a small shopfront on Grantown-on-Spey's High Street, where Marjory Marshall…
The Ceilidh Place
Ullapool, SCO
Actor Robert Urquhart founded The Ceilidh Place in Ullapool in 1970 as a gathering place for…
The Highland Bookshop
Fort William, SCO
Angus MacDonald opened the Highland Bookshop at 60 High Street, Fort William, in 2017, working with…
The Highland Weigh
Nairn, SCO
Amanda MacArthur opened The Highland Weigh on Nairn High Street in January 2022, drawing on…
Cellar
Black Isle Brewery
Munlochy, SCO
Scotland's only certified organic brewery, founded in 1998 by David Gladwin in a former cattle shed…
Cairngorm Brewery
Aviemore, SCO
Cairngorm Brewery was formed in 2001 through the merger of the former Aviemore and Tomintoul…
Cairngorm Gin Company
Aviemore, SCO
A small-batch gin distillery founded in 2019 at Granish Business Park on the edge of Aviemore,…
Cromarty Brewing Company
Cromarty, SCO
Family-run craft brewery on the Cromarty Firth, founded in 2011, producing a core range of four…
Dun Brewing
Glenelg, SCO
Small brewery at Corrary Farm in Glen Beag, named after the neighbouring Dun Telve and Dun Troddan…
Glen Spean Brewing Co
Spean Bridge, SCO
Glen Spean Brewing Co runs from a converted mid-19th-century steading at Tirindrish, near Spean…
GlenWyvis Distillery
Dingwall, SCO
John McKenzie, a farmer and former helicopter pilot, launched GlenWyvis as a crowdfunded,…
Highland Whisky Shop, Inverness
Inverness, SCO
Highland Whisky Shop opened on Castle Street in Inverness in September 2021, founded by Ferit Gur…
Pixel Spirits Distillery
North Ballachulish, SCO
Founded in 2017 by Craig and Noru Innes, this small distillery beside Loch Leven converted a former…
Uile-bheist Distillery & Brewery
Inverness, SCO
Uile-bheist opened in 2023 on Ness Bank in Inverness, on the River Ness in the city centre, as the…
Snug
Ben Nevis Inn
Fort William, SCO
A pub converted in 2001 from a 200-year-old barn at Achintee Farm, standing at the start of the…
Hootananny
Inverness, SCO
Hootananny has run as an independent, family-owned pub and live-music venue on Church Street for…
Old Bridge Inn
Aviemore, SCO
Owen Caldwell runs the Old Bridge Inn through Bigface Limited, a company registered at the pub's…
Ord Arms Hotel
Muir of Ord, SCO
Ord Arms Hotel is a village inn on the Great North Road in Muir of Ord, bought by new owners Stuart…
The Arch Inn
Ullapool, SCO
The Arch Inn occupies one of the oldest buildings in Ullapool, a harbour town laid out by the…
The Clachnaharry Inn
Clachnaharry, SCO
Family-run pub in the former fishing village of Clachnaharry on the western edge of Inverness, with…
The Grog & Gruel
Fort William, SCO
Trading on Fort William's High Street since 1994, this alehouse pairs real ales and malt whiskies…
The Havelock
Nairn, SCO
The Havelock stands on Crescent Road in Nairn, close to the town's links, and has been run as a…
The Malt Room
Inverness, SCO
Inverness' first dedicated whisky bar, opened on Church Street in 2017 and still run as a small,…
The Old Inn, Gairloch
Gairloch, SCO
The Old Inn stands at Flowerdale Glen in Gairloch, on the site of a changehouse built in the 1790s…
Union Tavern Fortrose
Fortrose, SCO
This single-bar pub on Fortrose High Street retains a two-thirds-height panelled interior and a…
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Achilty Guest House
Contin, Strathpeffer, SCO
Achilty Guest House occupies a building in Contin, near Strathpeffer, that began life as a drovers'…
Ashburn House Fort William
Fort William, SCO
A family-run bed and breakfast in a Victorian villa built around 1876, set on the shore of Loch…
Brooklynn Guest House
Grantown-on-Spey, SCO
Shona and Thorsten run Brooklynn from a late Victorian house on Grant Road, a five-minute walk from…
Clune House
Newtonmore, SCO
A late-Victorian villa at the quiet end of Newtonmore's Main Street, Clune House offers three…
Coig na Shee
Newtonmore, SCO
Coig na Shee occupies a Highland lodge built in 1903 on the Fort William road at the edge of…
Dunallan House
Grantown-on-Spey, SCO
Dunallan House is a restored Victorian villa on Woodside Avenue in Grantown-on-Spey, run as a…
Hillhaven Bed and Breakfast
Fortrose, SCO
Family-run bed and breakfast on Ord Hill just outside Fortrose on the Black Isle, a few minutes'…
Home Farm Bed and Breakfast Muir of Ord
Muir of Ord, SCO
Home Farm is a four-star gold-graded bed and breakfast on a working smallholding on the edge of…
Old Bridge Inn
Aviemore, SCO
Owen Caldwell runs the Old Bridge Inn through Bigface Limited, a company registered at the pub's…
Rose Cottage
Fort Augustus, SCO
Small bed and breakfast in Fort Augustus run by owner Jan Dovey, with two ensuite rooms, a guest…
The Ceilidh Place
Ullapool, SCO
Actor Robert Urquhart founded The Ceilidh Place in Ullapool in 1970 as a gathering place for…
The Cross at Kingussie
Kingussie, SCO
A restaurant with rooms set in a converted 19th-century tweed mill above the Gynack Burn on…
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