A Guide to Skye’s Fresh Local Produce
Skye Lodge is owned and run by locals who adore Isle of Skye and Scottish Highlands, including the delicious local food. Our surroundings ensure fresh produce from nearby suppliers. Isle of Skye was named a European Gourmet Destination in 2023 for its quality dishes using local ingredients.
At Skye Lodge, we take pride in serving the finest local food. Our ingredients come from trusted suppliers who prioritize sustainability. We value knowing where our food comes from as it is important to us.
In this guide we’ll tell you all about the amazing food and produce you can find and should experience on the Isle of Skye, as well as what you’ll find when you stay with us here at Skye Lodge too.
Fish & Seafood
Fresh local produce from the seas around Skye
We offer fresh fish deliveries twice weekly. When catering events, we customize orders based on preferences, like hand-divided scallops, line-caught salmon or trout, and langoustine. You can visit Dunvegan Pier to meet the crew of Loch Dunvegan Shellfish or connect with fishing vessels at various spots along Skye's west coast, such as Glendale, Loch Greshornish, and Waternish. Our experienced fishermen have deep roots in the area.
Suppliers Of Fresh Local Produce To Skye Lodge Dunvegan
HAND CRAFTED BREAD - OLD SCHOOL BAKERY, DUNVEGAN - 0.1 MILES FROM SKYE LODGE.
It’s rather fabulous that we built our house next to the Old School Bakery. We literally skip to the door, collect our order, and maybe pick up an americano to go, as the Old Bakery is a cafe and offers take-out too. Wake up early for this one - the queue at The Old Bakery at opening time is real!
FIND OUT MORE: OLD SCHOOL BAKERY
FRESH FRUIT AND VEG - seek out The FRUIT N NUT SHACK and FASGADH STORES, DUNVEGAN - 0.5 MILES FROM SKYE LODGE
Order for delivery or personally browse, as both Fasgadh Stores and The Fruit n Nut Shack maintain quality fresh Scottish produce from very reputable suppliers to Skye. Note that the Fruit and Nut Shack also has an array of vegan and gluten-free products. Both are well-established businesses with decades of local knowledge.
FIND OUT MORE: FASGADGH STORES
GRAHAM’S DAIRY - FOUND IN DUNVEGAN STORES - 0.5 MILES FROM SKYE LODGE.
Quality dairy providing quality butter, yoghurts and milk from Scotland.
FIND OUT MORE: GRAHAM’S DAIRY
RORA DAIRY - SIMPLY PURELY SCOTTISH AND DELIVERED TO SKYE LODGE. FOUND IN KYLE OF LOCHALSH AT bETH’S DELI. TRULY WONDERFUL YOGHURTS FARM TO OUR FRIDGE.
TASTU VEG - ISLE OF SKYE FRESH PRODUCE CO., ORBOST - 4.5 MILES FROM SKYE LODGE.
Suppliers of culinary herbs and salad leaves, used by chefs across Skye and Lochalsh.
FIND OUT MORE: ISLE OF SKYE FRESH PRODUCE CO
GROCERIES & CRAFTS & GIFTS - GLENDALE MARKET - 6.5 MILES FROM SKYE LODG
Skye Lodge Farmer's Market Details
Located in a remote area in the UK, this market offers special produce from local farms and the sea. You can find a variety of items like Iron Age pork, Soay lamb, venison, lobster, chicken, and fresh salads and vegetables from nearby farms. Open in the summer from 11 am to 4 pm every Tuesday.
FIND OUT MORE: GLENDALE FARMER’S MARKET
SEA SALT - ISLE OF SKYE SEA SALT COMPANY, NEAR BERNISDALE - 16 MILES FROM SKYE LODGE
Award-winning and only sea salt made in UK - sun & wind are the main ingredients on Loch Snizort. Estabished in 2011 and recently under new managed Skye Sea Salt is available throughout Scotland and beyond. Worth a visit perhaps as an educational excursion.
FIND OUT MORE: ISLE OF SKYE SEA SALT
HERBS AND EDIBLE FLOWERS - SKYE MICROGREENS, PORTREE - 22.5 MILES FROM SKYE LODGE
Urban farm project created April 2018. Microgreens are superfoods and can be used to create exceptional dishes. Skye microgreens grow shoots and edible flowers using organic soil and supply our restaurants and local community markets.
FIND OUT MORE: SKYE MICROGREENS
HAND DIVED SCALLOPS - SCONSER SCALLOPS - 25 MILES FROM SKYE LODGE
A truly sustainable way to farm the sea, focusing on a natural regeneration of stocks, which has to be admired and supported. Their motto is ‘sea eat love’.
FIND OUT MORE: SCONSER SCALLOPS
SMOKED SALMON - ISLE OF SKYE SMOKEHOUSE, BROADFORD - 33 MILES FROM SKYE LODGE
The smokehouse supplies Alder Hot Smoked Salmon and other smoked produce hand crafted in small batches. Created by Chef John Corfield c/o London Ritz and Gordon Ramsay Michelin restaurant he arrived on Skye with a young Family to start anew. Creating the smokehouse within a Cairn peat roof and stone walls. Stunning Salmon, Trout all smoked c/o locally source alder wood. It’s a true staple for us here at Skye Lodge Dunvegan.
FIND OUT MORE: ISLE OF SKYE SMOKEHOUSE
OUR BUTCHERS
Our butchers are great and we use different suppliers based on guest preferences and the season. Having good connections with estates in Scottish Highlands and Islands we like to partner with local estates and farms for high-quality meats and products.
ISLE OF SKYE BLACK PUDDING, Harlosh BY DUNVEGAN.
FIND OUT MORE: SKYE BLACK PUDDING
SKYE FREE RANGE. LOCH BRACADALE. SKYE
SKYE FREE RANGE providing quality local farm produce; Free Range chicken, lamb, and Shetland Beef. Located on Loch Bracadale with the most amazing views towards the Macleods Tables Dunvegan.
FIND OUT MORE: SKYE FREE RANGE
GRANTS OF SPEYSIDE, DORNOCH AND GRANTOWN ON SPEY
Award-winning Haggis and Blackpudding, Recipes and Heritage circa 1824. Us here at Skye Lodge also love the Cairngorms, and these are our trusted local butchers.
FIND OUT MORE: GRANTS OF SPEYSIDE
MACLEOD AND MACLEOD, STORNOWAY, ISLE OF LEWIS
Serving delicious Stornoway black pudding and fruit pudding, and more Hebridean produced goods such as white pudding and haggis. The company is now based in Perth, however, the history and heritage is still very much embedded with Isle of Lewis.
FIND OUT MORE: MACLEOD BUTCHERS
LOCHALSH BUTCHERS, KYLE OF LOCHALSH
Lochalsh Butchers based in Kyle of Lochalsh and Portree delivering to our door every week offering an amazing service and quality produce, All produce can be traced back to the croft that rear the beef, pork, venison or lamb. supplying the local area for more than 30years plus.
FIND OUT MORE: LOCHALSH BUTCHERS
The list of suppliers is quite incredible; we are truly spoilt indeed.
Our Coffee of Choice is ‘Cafe Blend’ from Highland Roasters based in Inverness. Coffee is truly personal. At Skye Lodge our Jura Coffee machine allows our guests to adjust bean strength, drink size and milk content so all is truly personal.
Isle of BARRA SNAILS – simple the very best. set up by Gerard MacDonald who recognised that barra offered an ideal location for wild edibale snails.
CONNAGE HIGHLAND DAIRY from Ardserier outside Inverness near fort george. A café, Diary and Farm worth a visit. Their produce is avialable from quality outlets.
Chocolates of Glenshiel. A local Kitchen to their own shop and café based at the foot of Glen Shiel
Truly fresh c/o Our DUNVEGAN FISHERMEN, Glendale and Loch Greshornish. The same families have been delivering lobster, Crab and Langoustines to Dunvegan for a generation or two.
FORAGING:- Many of our local restaurants forage for their menus and some use the services of local a forager. Local knowledge actual having an intimate knowledger of where to forage safely is a very important aspect for product and food safety.
FOODLINK VAN: our local delivery services for all producers on Isle of Skye.
GREAT GLEN CHARCUTERIE : we enjoy to best scottish venison from the glens of Roy Bridge just a few miles from spean Bridge and Fort William.
Loch Rannoch Smoked Meats: a family firm originally based near Loch Rannoch. Simply wonderful tasty meats that add simply sublime Scottish produce to a charcuterie board.
Cheeses and Yoghurts from our Highlands & Islands include:
Connage, Arderseir (Farm to plate)
Tain
Rora Dairy (farm to plate)
JUST HOOKED, PORTREE. Seafood specialists providing superior quality Scottish fish and shellfish to wholesale and retail clients locally and throughout Europe. Our local restaurants benefit greatly from the unique supply available.
LOCH EISHORT MUSSELS CULTURE. Peter Macaskill diversified his croft and started the cultivate mussels grown on rope in the waters of Loch Eishort on the south peninsula of Skye.
Skye Wholesale MACLEODS PORTREE providing a service to all on isle of Skye since 2011
Our Venison; Game Birds; Woodcock and Grouse are acquired from a number of local estates from outer Islands and Inner Isles from the Isle of Lewis, ARDGAY Game to name another.
Sconser Scallops. David Oakes and Ben deliver to the doors of our local restaurants SCONSER SCALLOPS. Hand dived cultivated and delivered the same day.
SHORE : THE SCOTTISH SEAWEED COMPANY – leading source of plant based nutrition. The benefits of Seaweed and uses of seaweed is definitely on the rise and many coastal communities are harvesting seaweed and making a living. A truly sustainable superfood.
SKYE ALE, SKYE GINS and Whisky are all now truly well-known. These we will discuss another day.
Skye Coffee Roasters for local beans.
