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Street Food in Scotland: 20 of the best vans, shacks and stalls IT’S been a tough year for street food vans – with so many outdoor events and festivals cancelled – and its seen many brilliant vendors pulling their wheels and businesses off the road. But, in spite of that, Scotland still has a tantalising and exciting street food offering, which can be found in farmer’s markets, parks, beach promenades, in short just the kind of outdoor locations that we’re loving to hang out at at this time of year. No article on the best vendors can go without a mention of some of the great hubs that are host to them, farmer’s markets like Stockbridge Neighbourgood Market, The Big Feed in Glasgow, the Pitt in Edinburgh.
Forget Cornwall, Oban is Scotland s answer to the perfect seaside getaway
Island hopping, a Scottish rainforest and not a single crowd await holidaymakers heading north this summer
Oban is Scotland’s hidden seaside gem
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From the airy, open windows of my Junior Suite at the Oban Bay Hotel, I gaze across the calming sea. A cool breeze drifts salty air around the room as I hone in on the faint squeak of oystercatchers wading further along the bay. To the west, the isle of Kerrera is partly eclipsed by a passing Caledonian MacBrayne ship; to the east, a dreamy tangerine sunset slowly descends behind Lismore’s craggy landscape – the previous evening the sky had been aglow in violet, proof that no two days on Scotland’s west coast are ever the same.
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First published on Sat 13 Mar 2021 10.00 EST
The Oban docks on Scotland’s west coast are a functional place. Veteran CalMac ferries to the islands heave on their moorings and, from time to time, there’s a waft of diesel in the air. It’s not the first place you might think of visiting for lunch. But there, alongside the blocky, modern ferry terminal building, is the glory that is the Oban Seafood Hut. It’s in the kind of prefabricated shed only its designer could love, and emblazoned with a garish bright green signage that can doubtless be seen from a mile off shore. But oh, the food. One afternoon, beneath gunmetal skies, I feasted on scallops the size of a baby’s fist in ponds of hot garlic butter, shiny black mussels and crab sandwiches thicker than an airport bonkbuster novel.