Taste of Place Trails

The Seafood Trail: Argyll’s Atlantic waters and sea lochs deliver bountiful fresh fish and shellfish and with numerous hotels, bars, restaurants and stalls all with stunning sea views

Argyll has a long tradition of fish smoking. The region is home to more than 10 smokehouses, some with visitor centres where you can watch the process

The Vegan Trail: As well as dedicated vegan establishments, many more are offering great vegan food as key dishes on their menus. Cafés, hotels, restaurants and bed and breakfasts across Argyll are constantly adding vegan food to give visitors an exciting choice and will offer great produce and foraged ingredients

The Spirits and Beer Trail: Argyll is famed for its single malt whiskies, with 15 distilleries dotting what is known as the ‘whisky coast’ with 10 on Islay and Jura and two more planned. Campbeltown is a distinct whisky region. The area has some famous, well-established gin distilleries and breweries with exciting new additions

The Coffee and Cake Trail: Home-baking is a source of pride at local cafés and tea rooms and competition is fierce.

The area is undergoing a coffee renaissance, with no less than four specialty coffee roasters in the region supplying high-quality coffee to cafés, restaurants and hotels

Did you know that tea is even being grown and blended in Argyll?

The Farm Produce Trail: Argyll’s hills and pastures provide some of the best meat and game in Scotland including Kintyre, Cowal, Islay, Bute and Mull, where livestock feed on lush, herb-filled pastures.

This prime, quality, slow-grown meat, including salt marsh lamb, features on menus throughout Argyll.

The Argyll hills are also home to many thousands of deer, so venison is another delicacy.

Kintyre, Gigha and Mull are famed for their milk, which is crafted into delicious dairy products, including cheese and ice cream.