HomeBlack Isle Food and Drink Festival 2024
Meet the Stallholders
Check out the list of stallholders for this year's festival. Clicking on their name will take you to their websites where you can find out more about them. More may be added as we approach the festival date.
Forest to Fork
Forest to Fork is a family-run business based on the Black Isle. We provide a professional deer management service and run a small larder for processing our venison. This enables us to ensure total traceability. Every pack of venison butchered and sold by Forest to Fork can be traced back to within a few feet of its source. Nick and Lizzy will be bringing along a tasty selection of wild venison products for you to try.
The Chocolate Place
Handmade Artisan Chocolates made with love in Inverness. Debbie will be running workshops for our younger attendees. They can be accompanied by an adult who must promise not to eat all the chocolate!
Loch Ewe Brewery
The Loch Ewe Brewery is a small brewery producing real ales, designed to be refreshing and satisfying and using natural ingredients by traditional methods. Come and try a sample and then buy your bottles before they sell out.
Cullisse Highland Rapeseed Oil
This multi-award-winning range of natural and flavoured rapeseed oils is produced from oilseeds grown and gently cold-pressed at Cullisse Farm near Tain. There are 7 flavours to complement their natural cold-pressed rapeseed oil in a variety of pack formats from gift sets to 100ml, 250ml and 500ml bottles.
O'Delice French Patisserie
Emilie will be offering her amazing range of French patisserie and desserts.
Ord Oak Smokehouse
Smoked salmon (hot and cold), as well as other seafood and some tasty seafood products.
Strathpeffer Artisan Bread
Artisan bread handmade in the Highlands by Nikky Burdekin using organic ingredients.
Easter Balmungie Farm
Ann will be bringing a selection of goodies from her farm: lamb, eggs, and fresh herbs.
Highland Prime
A range of quality meat products, including handmade sausages, burgers, meatballs and dry cure bacon. Most of our products are additive-free, and we have a range that is also gluten free. Ray will be bringing his usual collection of savoury treats to market, and tasters of Mexican cooking chorizo and Maltese pork sausage.
Cromarty Brewing Company
A family-run multi-award-winning craft brewery based in picturesque Cromarty, producing innovative, handcrafted, small-batch beers.
Clachuille Fruit and Veg
Marcia will be bringing her fresh seasonal bounty from her Highland Garden including tomatoes, beans, winter squash and greens. There is nothing to beat the colour and flavour of freshly picked fruit and vegetables.
Bogrow Farm Charcuterie
A range of aware-winning charcuterie products made on our farm from our own free-range meat and local wild venison.
Patisserie Alice
Alice produces the most delicious cakes – look at her Facebook page and be tempted. Don’t miss her meringue roulade!
Empanadas Bravas
Empanadas, Basque cheesecake and other Spanish yummies.
Pro Fish
Pro Fish will be selling their range of ultra-fresh fish and shellfish which has come straight off boats landed in a Scottish port, and either processed in-house, smoked at a local smokehouse or cured in-house. Ever wondered how to prepare seafood? Look out for Lionel's demo, see details below.
Xoko
Xoko will be bringing a range of their high-quality artisan sourdoughs, pastries, and cakes baked in Inverness. The name XOKO, pronounced shaw-ko, comes from the ancient Nahuatl language in Mexico and means “The village where the bitter fruit grows”. It is thought this is the origin of the word chocolate.
Black Isle Dairy
The Mackenzie family from Rootfield Farm make artisan dairy products from their own herd of Holstein, Ayrshire and Jersey cows. These include their delicious gelato-style ice cream and natural yoghurt.
Chilliman
Love the Heat Love the Taste
Whatever level of hot sauce you like, the Chilliman will have one for you. Whether super hot, medium hot, mild or hot fruity - even artisan hot sauce like coffee, yes, coffee, have fun finding the one you love.
GlenWyvis
Nestled beneath the sprawling mass of Ben Wyvis, the GlenWyvis Distillery was established in 2015. The idea was to unite the community of Dingwall through the creation of a distillery owned by local people. Come and try our award-winning gins and whiskys.
Fraoch Cottage
Farming with care is behind everything Fraoch Cottage does. Their small flock of Ryeland sheep and saddleback pigs produce high-quality lamb and pork. See our wide range of cuts, sausages, bacon and don’t miss our delicious sausage rolls.
Caledonian Cider
A range of ciders lovingly made from Highland apples, a stone’s throw from the Black Isle.
Highland Community Waste Partnership Transition Black Isle
Providing resources on the Zero Waste Food Challenge and composting support for businesses, communities and households.
WoodWinters Wines
Alongside a wine tasting session on the demonstrations menu, WoodWinters will also have a stand where you can sample and buy a variety of their wines.
The following wines are planned to be available, however this may change due to stock levels over the summer. Click on the underlined wines to read more about them.
Sottano Malbec : Roundstone Sauvignon Blanc : Cubillo Rioja : Sixty Click : Peuiqe Godello : Vidano : False Bay Rose
Woodwinters have also kindly sponsored our Friday evening event where you will be able to sample a couple of their wines as included in the ticket.
Highland Tea Box
A small independent tea retailer based in the Highlands selling speciality teas, tea blends and accessories.
Bloomin' Heather
Quirky wee mobile café based on the Black Isle thriving to serve local tasty foods to all (all diets welcome!). Focaccia sandwiches, bloomin’ salad bowls, fantastic sweet treats and don’t forget to try our carefully selected drinks, including fabulous coffees and teas.
Taylor Woodcraft
I am a semi retired carpenter and my main line of work is in musical theatre productions, but now since I have stepped back a bit from work I have been able to spend more time fulfilling my passion of wood turning which I have enjoyed for many years.
I make a variety of different wooden items including kitchen/food related items like salt/pepper grinders, cheese knives, graters, pizza wheels and also bowls, platters, trinket boxes, yarn bowls and bird feeders.
Struan Apiaries
Struan Apiaries will have on sale their wonderful heather and blossom honey, harvested in the Highlands, as well as their range of delicious home-made preserves, chutneys, mustards, sauces and curds.
