KINLOCH BAKERY

Blackwaterfoot
Contact: Phil Judge
Tel: 01770 860 444

 

Hidden down an alleyway to the left of the Kinloch Hotel you can watch the bakers pull loaves from an old Scotch Oven on a giant wooden 'spade' - if you're there early enough in the day. Unlike most commercial bakery operations, when you walk into the shop here, you walk into the bakery. Like restaurants which have an open plan kitchen-restaurant you see everything from the small adjoining servery counter. This bakery has been firing bread in the old oven at least since the 1920s, when a shooting party from Shiskine recorded that freshly baked morning rolls came each day from the bakery.

By lunchtime, the bakers are clearing up after the day's bread, rolls, teabread, pancakes, scones and crumpets have been baked to supply the hotel, the residents of Blackwaterfoot and a few local tearooms. The supply of fresh-out-the-oven rolls and bread is dwindling.

I go home with a large, satisfyingly thick, soft crumpet, a light currant scone, two rustic brown rolls and a brown loaf. There are still a few crusty baguettes and some pies and sausage rolls in the counter. But with the steady stream of customers behind me, they too are disappearing fast.

Product Range: bread, rolls, teabread, pies, cakes, biscuits and pastries

Distribution: Retail On Arran: Kinloch Hotel, Shiskine Golf Course Tea Room, Machrie Golf Course Tearoom.

Shop open all year.