Showcasing local produce, and the people who make it
Food and drink is the part people remember. We build offerings designed around the place the event is in, and the producers who make it worth travelling for.
Not catering as an afterthought, but a food and drink offering designed around the place the event is in.
We put local producers, makers and suppliers in front of visitors: street food, farmers’ markets, retail and craft, hospitality and formal catering. We know Scotland’s producers, we know what travels and what does not, and we know how to make it work operationally on a field in August.
An event is one of the best shop windows a local producer will ever get. Done well, the food offering raises the quality of the whole event, keeps spend in the area, and sends people home talking about something they tasted.
The whole food and drink operation
Food and drink strategy
What the offer should be, who should be in it, how it is laid out and how it is priced.
Vendor and trader management
Sourcing, selecting, contracting and managing street food, refreshment and retail traders.
Farmers’ markets and showcases
Curating a market that genuinely reflects the region and its producers.
Hospitality catering
From grab-and-go to seated service for hundreds, with the operational detail handled.
Retail, arts and crafts
The wider trader mix that turns an event into a day out.
Local sourcing and sustainability
Reducing food miles and waste, and keeping the money in the area.
Where we have done it
- UCI Cycling World Championships 2023, Tweed Valley: the full food and drink operation across seven days at Glentress Forest, street food and refreshment vendors across the site and park-and-ride locations, plus 250-cover hospitality serving breakfast through to afternoon refreshments, built on local suppliers and a genuine sustainability brief
- Sir Jackie Stewart Classic, Thirlestane Castle: all catering, the farmers’ market, retail, arts and crafts and street food for 20,000 attendees over two days
- Borders Vintage Automobile Club: three years delivering the food and drink offering, farmers’ market and retailers
- Borders Railway launch: farmers’ markets at Waverley Station
- Showcasing Scotland and The Power of Food Tourism: producer showcases, workshops and cookery demonstrations in front of buyers
- Growing the Local Economy: two food and drink events in Kelso and Laggan, delivered in partnership as part of the South of Scotland Food & Drink Landscape Assessment
We know this sector properly
Jemma is a Scotland Food Tourism Ambassador, was Lead for Food Tourism at Scotland Food & Drink, and ran the Scottish Borders Food & Drink Network from 2010 to 2015. She knows most producers in the South of Scotland personally.
Built and promoted together
Many of these events only work because of partnership. We work with local authorities, destination organisations, regional food groups, producers, landowners and community groups to build and promote an event, and to make sure everyone gets something out of it.
Planning an event with a food and drink offering?
Let’s talk about what the local larder could bring to it.