09/02/2007

+ Take an empty wine bottle to deli/café Le Marché Français, in West Maitland Street, Edinburgh, and, for just £3, brothers Pierre and Laurent Pelletier will fill it straight from the cask you to take home.

+ Get haggis by post from champion haggis maker, Lindsay Grieve, in Hawick.

+ Pop into Luvians Bottleshop, in St Andrews, Fife, for wine, whisky and…ice-cream. The Fusaro family have been making ice cream for more than 40 years and sell more than 30 different flavours at their wine shop. The ice cream is made in a factory at the back of the shop and sold alongside 600 whiskies and a good stock of European wines.

+ Enjoy real home-cooked food at one of Edinburgh’s smallest pubs – and one of only five freehouses in the city – the Halfway House, tucked in an alleyway in Fleshmarket Close, two minutes walk from Waverley rail station. The menu includes cullen skink and venison casserole – cooked at the owner's home and shipped in.

+ Try freshly-harvested scallops at the An Lochan Hotel (formerly the Royal Hotel) in the picturesque village of Tighnabruaich, Argyll, collected from the Kyles of Bute and delivered within a few hours to the kitchen by local teachers, Mary and Shonna.

+ Take a lasagne dish into the Gourmet Pasta shop in Morningside Road, Edinburgh, and they’ll fill it with a choice of egg, spinach and tomato tagliatelle or delicious ravioli – ready for you to slap it in the oven for tea and pretend it’s your own!

+ Enjoy authentic Russian food at the fabulously eccentric Russian Tavern, at the Port Royal Hotel, Isle of Bute. Russian owner, Olga Crawford, serves up buckwheat blinis and caviar-topped herrings, based on recipes researched at the Tsar's archives in St Petersburg. Take home a goody bag of Russian dolls and red wine.

+ Get the best of the local catch – seacat, lobster, Shetland mussel and razor clams – from Eddie’s Seafood Market, Roseneath Road, Edinburgh.

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