Local firms celebrate winning leading food and drink awards
Local firms have been recognised at the prestigious Scottish Food and Drink Awards.
Seafood producer Loch Fyne Oysters celebrated its 40th year of trading by scooping the top prize in the Fish and Seafood category.
The awards recognise innovation, enterprise and quality among Scottish food and drink producers.
Loch Fyne Oysters won an award for its Bradan Orach smoked salmon, which is hand-cured with sea salt, then cold smoked in kilns fired by oak shavings from whisky casks. Bradan Orach is cold-smoked for up to 24 hours longer.
Loch Fyne Oysters was also shortlisted for Primary Producer of the Year and Export Business of the Year.
And the Whitehouse Restaurant team in Lochaline are celebrating after winning the best Scottish sourcing award at the Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards 2018, which took place on June 7 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Sarah Jones, co-owner, said: ‘We are all thrilled to have won this accolade. They judges got what the Whitehouse has always been about – using the very best locally sourced Scottish food and drink that we can find.’
The judges commented: ‘This is an utterly stand-out restaurant and an offering that Scotland’s food and drink and tourism industries can be proud of.
‘A hidden gem.’