Fine Fife food

For anyone with a love of food Balgove Larder should feature high on any menu of places to visit while in Fife.

Built to showcase the best of farm to fork Scottish produce this friendly farm shop - complete with its own butchery, cafe, flower-shed, home-store and mouth-watering steak barn - is renowned as one of the best of its kind in the country.

It is the only Scottish business to be named in the best farm shop categories for this year’s Farm Shop & Deli Awards.

Founded in 2010, and based just outside St Andrews, Balgove Larder has become a destination for locals and visitors alike looking to shop for the highest quality Scottish food and drink from Fife and beyond.

Locally reared, grown, stalked, caught, handmade, and prepared foods abound in this manmade monument to the slow food movement where almost everything is sourced from within a few miles.

The Larder prides itself on producing slow grown, free- range, traditional breed animals. Fed on a sustainable diet and dry aged for a minimum of 28 days or longer the meat is far tastier and more nutritious than most run-ofthe-mill factory farmed products. Wastage is kept to a minimum as the Larder produces its own black pudding, white pudding, sausages, and award winning haggis.

Many of the products on offer in the butchery can be sampled in the adjacent former sawmill which has been transformed into a charming steak barn with an ever changing menu of fresh and seasonally inspired dishes.

Flaming grills blaze away surrounded by walls of rustic potato boxes and rough hewn trestle tables, made from salvaged storm-damaged beech trees, providing a real countrystyle dining experience.

“Over the last 10 years, Balgove Larder has grown from a team of just seven to over 60 members of staff - all passionate about celebrating the very best produce that we’ve grown, reared or sourced from across Fife and beyond. The farm shop has developed from a small shop and café to a real destination for food lovers and this recognition is testament to the hard work and highest levels of quality that the team adhere to,” said Will Docker, founder of Balgove Larder.