Scran: Cafés, Takeaways, Home Bakes & Farm Stands Across Scotland

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Nobody ever went hungry in Scotland by accident. Every high street has a bakery that opens at six, a café where the soup changes daily, a chippy with a queue out the door on a Friday, and somewhere behind the houses a farm gate with an honesty box and a tray of eggs. Scran is where all of that gets listed in one place: the businesses, the home cooks, the farm stands, and the good stuff you only get if you know where to stop.

This board is for anyone who feeds people. If you run a café, bakery, restaurant, deli, tearoom or food van, list yourself here with your opening hours and what you sell take-away, so locals and folk just passing through can find you. If you cook at home, you belong here too: your best Scottish recipes, meals made to order, baking, pickling and preserves. And if you sell off a table at the end of the drive, this is your shop window.

What belongs here

• Cafés, bakeries, restaurants, delis, tearooms and food trucks, with opening hours and a take-out or collection menu
• Home cooks sharing their best Scottish recipes, written out properly with weights and temperatures
• Home-cooked meals for sale: batch cooking, family portions, Friday pies, casseroles, stovies, soups
• Home baking: scones, bannocks, tablet, shortbread, clootie dumpling, celebration cakes to order
• Pickles, chutneys, preserves, marmalade, chilli jam, piccalilli, sauerkraut, jars and hampers
• Farm stands, honesty boxes and gate sales: produce, tatties, neeps, eggs, pies, honey, jam, soft fruit in season
• Pop-ups, market stalls, community larders and mobile vans doing the rounds

How to list well. Put your hours at the top. People give up on a listing that does not say when you are open, and a note like "Thu to Sun, 9 till 4, shut January" saves everyone a wasted run. Give your area and postcode so folk can tell whether you are on their way. Say what you sell in plain words: "mince pies, two pounds each, collection Saturday" tells a buyer far more than "artisan festive bakes". Photograph the food in daylight on a real plate. Mention allergens and dietary options, because someone will ask. If you take orders, say how far ahead you need them. If your season is short, strawberries in June or lamb at Easter, say so.

A word on Scotland. Half the best scran in this country is never advertised. It is a tray at a back door, a chippy in the same family since 1974, a crofter selling eggs from a cool box by the road, a baker who only does morning rolls and closes when they are gone. That is the point of this board: all of it, from a two-table café in a village to a restaurant with a waiting list, in the same place, found by the same people.

Post it up. Cafés, bakers, restaurants, cooks, crofters and farm stands all list here free. Whether you are feeding your own street or feeding visitors coming off the ferry, put it on the board and let Scotland find its dinner.

Scran: your listings live here.