Taste of Inverness
A celebration of our local food and drink in the region.
Taste of Inverness Returns for 2025!
Following the success of the inaugural Taste of Inverness event in November 2023, we’re thrilled to announce its return for 2025 as part of the Food and Drink Festival!
We are hoping for another unforgettable day filled with the same energy, inspiration, and true celebration of the incredible food and drink talents of local suppliers, businesses, and experiences, with a fantastic lineup of inspirational speakers and engaging demonstrations that captivated everyone in attendance at last years event.
We can’t wait to welcome everyone back in 2025, stay tuned for updates and details on what’s to come!
Date for your diary!
Saturday 1st March 2025
Kingsmills Hotel
10am - 2pm
We cannot wait to welcome you along!
On entry you will be handed a bag to fill with goodies from the day.
Find out more below about what local businesses will be joining us to showcase their produce, products and experiences, and about the speakers and demos you can enjoy on the day!
Meet the exhibitors
In no particular order, we are delighted to welcome along a fantastic line up of businesses, restaurants, producers, makers and suppliers of some of the finest local produce and food and drink experiences.
Tomatin Distillery
Uile-Bhiest Distillery
Singleton Glen Ord Distillery
Dog Falls Brewery
Waterside Restaurant
Kingsmills Hotel
Ness Walk Hotel
Loch Ness Water
XOKO Bakehouse
Bon Accord
Grain and Grind
Great Glen Charcutterie
Glenmoriston Hotel
Love Dosa
Loch Ness Ice Cream
An Nead Cafe - Dundreggan Rewilding Centre
Rising Roots Microgreens
Speakers and Demos
Hear the story's from two well known local businesses and enjoy mouthwatering demonstrations from
- Loch Ness Ice Cream
- Xoko
- Angry Seagull
- Ness Walk Hotel Chefs
We will update the timings and more information of these soon!
We would love to hear from you if you would like to be part of the next Taste event.
To register your interest in the 2025 event, please get in touch!
Looking back to last years event!
The stall holders came with an incredible amount of delicious tasters and information about their food and drink businesses.
Suppliers and producers from across Inverness and Loch Ness were able to network with other local businesses, talk collaborative ideas and showcase their wonderful quality products and services to the members of the public.
These businesses included Dog Falls Brewery, Black Isle Brewery, MXYD drinks, Woodwinters, Ness Water Ltd, Bon Accord, Highland Coffee Academy, Inverness Coffee Roasting, Grain and Grind, Bad Girl Bakery, XOKO, Tomatin Distillery, Glen Ord Distillery, Swansons, Bogrow Farm, Loch Ness Ice Cream, Hampers and Champers, Hou Hou Mei, Highland Food and drink Trail , Downright Gabbler, Business Gateway and The Federation of Small Businesses.
The line up of inspirational speakers were extremely popular! They included : Masterchef finalist, Sarah Rankin, who spoke whilst demonstrating a delicious dish made with local produce provided by local suppliers Swansons.
Ghillie Basan gave an inspirational talk about her journey and experiences and she also launched her brand new book 'Seafood Journey' at the event.
Local food and drink creators, Kelly and Adam known as ‘haimandawa’ spoke about growing their online presence and local foodie community and how best to work with online creators as a foodie business.
Tracy Cameron from Scotland Food and Drink had some really important messages about why food tourism is so important to the Highlands.
Alongside Sarah Rankin, we were joined by local baking legend Jeni Iannetta, Bad Girl Bakery who chatted with Visit Inverness Loch Ness's Destination Development manager Emma whilst she decorated and incredible cake.
Grant from The Angry Seagull and Jamie from The Red Shank whipped up a delicious fishy storm whilst chatting to Douglas Hardie from the Highland Food and Drink Trail.
Euan the Executive chef from the The Drumossie hotel served up a mouth watering mackerel dish for the audience whilst he chatted cheffing and food with Adam from Haimandawa.
Huge thanks goes to our sponsors and partners Kingsmills Hotel and Highland Council Common Good Fund.
2025 Sponsors
