At Ror’s Kitchen, we are passionate about using produce that is local and seasonal. Take a look at where our ingredients come from.

Phantassie provide us with organic fruit, vegetables, and eggs.

They are a small, local business run by the force of nature that is Patricia. We love their amazing range of seasonal food- if you can get it all year round, it probably isn’t that sustainable!

Best product: the Phantassie organic herb salad, grown on their own premises. This is a medley of leaves, herbs, and flowers: delicious and beautiful.

Fun Fact: a lot of their vegetables are homegrown, and anything they do import does not travel by air. We love that they seek a more ethical, sustainable approach to fresh food.

Company Bakery provide us with the most exquisite sourdough baked goods.

They use flour from a farm in East Lothian called Mungoswells Malt & Milling. Their café is well worth a trip.

Best product: their sourdough baguette is to die for.

Honorable Mention: their soda bread

Fun Fact: Ror knows the founders and helped to build the bakery they are currently in!

George Anderson & Sons supply us with fruit and veg.

Located about two miles away from our unit, they offer a wide range of fresh ingredients which they source from the markets in Newcastle everyday.

Best product: their herbs and micro herbs. Their selection of micro herbs are vital to the refined presentation of our food and are great fun to use. Micro herbs are young herbs that are harvested before their time

Fun Fact: They’ve been going for over 40 years, one of central Scotland’s only family-run veg and fruit wholesalers.

John Gilmour Butchers are located just around the corner from George Anderson.

Their main product is beef and lamb of exceptional quality from the Tweed Valley. They know who they’re buying from and don’t work in huge volumes. From there, they treat it well and age it well.

Best product: their Tomahawk steaks

Honourable Mention: their dry-aged meats. In a humidity controlled environment with a high salt content, the the beef is slowly dried until it loses its moisture and is left with an intense flavour.

Strangers Brewing Co. are an independent local brewery located just outside of Linlithgow.

Best product: their pilsner, the Lithgae Lager

Fun Fact: most of their beer comes with the added bonus of being gluten-free. It’s brewed using wheat but then an enzyme is added which makes the beer clear and also removes the gluten.

de Burgh Wine Merchant are a local wine merchant and a really friendly bunch of people.

Best product: Domain de la Vertailles

Fun fact: they also rent out Riedel Glass Wire, which are the best glasses you can get for wine.

MòR Atlantic Trout, a brand from Kames Fish Farm, are from the Northwest of Scotland.

They’re a lovely bunch and look after their team. Plus, they have been given an MBE for services to agriculture due to their massive focus on sustainability. Every element of the business aims to minimise their impact on the planet: their fish, the testing, disease control… they care!

Best Product: Steelhead Trout

Fun Fact: The anadromous rainbow trout, or Steelhead, ‘has a natural inclination to migrate to the sea where it grows more akin in size to salmon, yet with the delicate taste and a leanness for which trout is often preferred.’

The Clark Brothers are a fifth generation family run fishmonger in Musselburgh.

Their spread of fish is incredibly fresh and they supply several local restaurants.

Best Product: their lemon sole

Fun Fact: Simon, great-grandson of the founder, is married to Thip, who is Thai, and responsible for their famous Thai fish cakes. Scotland and Thailand have hugely important traditions of fishing and fish-eating, and the company has evolved to make the most of them both.

IJ Mellis was started in 1995 by Ian Mellis and is now run by his son.

They now have a wide collection of Scottish, English and international cheeses which they import and store in their maturing rooms. When they feel that their products are at the perfect stage of maturity, they are distributed for sale.

Best Product: Errington cheeses from Lanarkshire

Fun Fact: Mellis was a chemist, which made him very good at preserving and maintaining cheese.

Campbell’s Prime Meat are one of the biggest restaurant suppliers in Scotland, including those with Michelin stars.

They have a very wide range, especially of beef cuts that you can’t find elsewhere, but they do pretty much every cut of meat under the sun. You can buy goats, ostriches, and much more.

Best Product: their Beef Cheeks

Fun Fact: Thomas Campbell started his trade in 1910, still family owned.