All our holiday houses can be self-catered, partially or fully catered. 

Wake up to the smell of our home baked fresh bread which we can supply to you every day. We can provide cheese scones,  chocolate fondant cake, supper left for your arrival, freezer cooking, breakfast, dinner and every other meal, including children’s tea. We can barbecue for you or provide picnics on the hill, brought to a picturesque spot, complete with tartan rugs in the heather. Any or all of this can be arranged secretly: our honeymooners love to order champagne and canapés as a surprise. Wicked puddings are a speciality, especially our chocolate mouse and tiramisu. President Bush asked for the recipe for our chocolate mousse and gingerbread and they have been staples in The White House ever since.

Scotland is world famous for the quality of its ingredients, much of it organic. Our aim is to produce food that truly reflects the Estate’s location: we use our own organic venison and game, heather-fed Blackface lamb, Aberdeen Angus beef, excellent locally smoked salmon and organic vegetables. We can bring you wonderfully fresh seafood from the North Sea and Atlantic coasts: we offer seafood feasts including local, freshly caught fish, lobster, oysters, mussels, crabs and prawns. Our menus change to reflect the best foods the seasons have to offer. Wild raspberries grow on the fringes of our woods and blaeberries all over the moor. We get our organic strawberries, raspberries and blueberries from the King’s own supplier, 20 minutes from the Estate, in the famous berry fields of Strathmore. Why not settle back for some quality time and let someone else do the work? We buy only the best, but whenever we can we buy local to restrict food miles.

Our House Manager Simon Evans often provides informal meals for guests at all our properties, and is also happy to shop for groceries and stock your fridge before you arrive.

Contact Simon on +44 (0)7949 547882 (mobile or whatsapp) or [email protected]

Sharpee and Diana, who also live and work on the Estate, bake for most of our guests: freshly baked bread, scones, or a marvellous chocolate fondant cake. They also sell eggs from their own hens. 

Contact Sharpee on +44 (0)7958 029502 (mobile or whatsapp)

Please note that while Simon and Diana both hold hygiene certifications and cook in pristine domestic kitchens they cannot guarantee the total absence of allergens. If you have any medical allergies please do not use their services.

Executive chefs who often cook for our guests

Guiseppe Manzoli

www.giuseppemanzoli-chef.com, +44 (0)7868 162435, +44 (0)7414 235378

John Ramsay, Chefs on the Move

www.chefsonthemove.co.uk, +44 (0)7733 881788

Tom Davidson, Wylie and Wood

www.wylieandwood.com, +44 (0)3333 059015

Tom can also cater for weddings.

Local Chef

Deborah Ovens, Nutmeg Cooking

+44 (0)7977 422037

Catering Agencies

Cindy Webster Cooks

www.cindywebstercooks.co.uk, +44 (0)1835 820001

Silver Teal Cooks

www.silvertealcooks.com, +44 (0)7711 253429

Staff Accomodation

A comfortable two bedroom, two bathroom apartment on the Estate is available to book for staff. Please email [email protected] for details.

We recommend booking as early as possible for all catering services.

One of our specialities is whisky tastings, focusing on your areas of specific interest, given by the former CEO of one of the world’s most famous distilleries. He also has access to rare and unusual whiskies, which can make for an utterly memorable evening. His tastings are strongly recommended. POA.

We can arrange wine and whisky delivery and can advise on whiskies compatible with particular menus.

We also offer specialist evenings, for example, a Burns Night which starts with a recital by a famous piper, followed by a whisky tasting. The piper then plays you into dinner, followed by the famous ‘Address to the Haggis’ by Robert Burns, and the opportunity to taste Haggis: (our good haggis, like good sausages, is delicious: cheap haggis is the opposite. Excellent vegetarian haggis can also be provided). Guests normally then choose from a speciality Scottish menu for the rest of the meal, eg, our own organic roast venison.

Foodies love trips to the local salmon smokery and the day trip to some of the most famous whisky distilleries in the world, where they can sample the best that Scotland has to offer. Please see under activities for more details.