Loch Lomond Food & Drink Festival
By SHS EventsTwo days of Scottish food and drink on the boardwalk at Loch Lomond Shores. Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September, 10am–5pm.
About this event
Where
Loch Lomond Shores
Ben Lomond Way, Balloch, Alexandria G83 8QL
Good to know
Free entry
The whole site is free to walk round. Some activities may be ticketed separately on the day.
Whatever the weather
We trade in all conditions unless it is genuinely unsafe. We post updates by 7am on the day.
Accessibility
Level access throughout, accessible toilets on site, and the main avenues are kept clear for wheelchairs and buggies.
Meet the makers
Auld Est. 2019
Street food
I run a wood-fired pizza van from a converted horsebox with a proper oven in it. I can serve 120 an hour if the queue’s moving.
Bothy Cider
Craft beer & cider
I brew a dark mild and a Scottish 80/- in a ten-barrel plant outside Alloa. Mixed cases are the easiest way to try the range.
Bothy Textiles
Knitwear & textiles
I knit hats, scarves and mitts using Harris tweed offcuts that would be binned.
Braeside Candle Co
Candles & home fragrance
I make wax melts and reed diffusers cut and polished in the workshop.
Bramble Jams
Preserves & chutneys
I forage and preserve — bramble, elderflower, rowan, rosehip with no pectin and no artificial anything. Tasting spoons on the stall — try before you buy.
Bruntsfield Kitchen
Preserves & chutneys
I forage and preserve — bramble, elderflower, rowan, rosehip using whatever the season gives me.
Clyde Seafood
Fish & seafood
I sell shellfish landed on the west coast over oak in a smokehouse I built myself. I sell out by 1pm most weeks.
Corrie & Fern
Plants & flowers
I grow houseplants and propagate my own cuttings suited to actual west-of-Scotland weather. Wreath workshops through November.
Corrie Spirits
Gin & whisky
I make a rhubarb and a navy-strength gin with juniper, whin flower and sea buckthorn. Off-sales only unless the event has a bar licence.
Corrie Studio
Knitwear & textiles
I weave scarves and throws on a floor loom dyed with heather, nettle and onion skin.
Croft Bakehouse
Bakery & cakes
I bake sourdough and slow-fermented bread to my gran’s recipes, with a bit less sugar.
Grain & Grain
Woodwork
I carve spoons and kitchen tools by hand salvaged from Glasgow tenement refits. Names burned on while you wait.
Heather & Salve
Soap & skincare
I make cold-process soap using no palm oil and no plastic.
Ink Studio
Art & prints
I paint Scottish coastline in watercolour from sketches done on the hill, not from photos. Cards keep the lights on; prints pay for the paper.
Kelpie & Hops
Craft beer & cider
I brew a dark mild and a Scottish 80/- with Scottish-grown barley wherever I can get it. Off-sales cans and bottles; on-sales only where there’s a bar licence.
Kelpie Scotland
Hot drinks
I do hot chocolate with proper Scottish cream and mulled apple through the winter markets. I bring my own generator so I’m not fighting for a socket.
Loch Fyne & Creel
Fish & seafood
I hot- and cold-smoke salmon and haddock over oak in a smokehouse I built myself.
Machair Apothecary
Soap & skincare
I make bath salts and body oils cured for six weeks before it ever reaches a stall.
Ochil Meats
Butcher & game
I make square sausage, black pudding and haggis shot within twenty miles and processed the same week.
Retro & Found
Vintage & upcycled
I upcycle furniture and small homeware sized properly, because vintage sizing lies. If it can be mended I mend it rather than scrap it.
Retro Emporium
Vintage & upcycled
I restore and sell mid-century glassware painted with low-VOC chalk paint.
Rowan Knits
Knitwear & textiles
I weave scarves and throws on a floor loom in Scottish lambswool from a mill in the Borders. The bobble hats keep the whole stall afloat.
Skerry & Metal
Jewellery
I make recycled silver jewellery by hand in a workshop above the kitchen. Free resizing for life on every ring I make.
Skerry Distillers
Gin & whisky
I make a spiced rum and a coffee liqueur in batches of about 200 bottles at a time.
Wee Kitchen Co
Street food
I run a Polish street food kitchen — pierogi and bigos from my mum’s recipes, adapted for a queue.
Whin Jewellery
Jewellery
I make recycled silver jewellery by hand with a hammered finish that catches the light. Free resizing for life on every ring I make.
Trade at this event
Stall applications are open. No account needed to apply.
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Free entry
No ticket needed — just turn up on the day.