Throughout the Tartan Day Scotland Festival 2013, local restaurants, hotels and coffee shops will be offering special Tartan Day Menus, featuring traditional Scottish dishes made from the very best of local produce.
Eateries across Angus will be offering customers the chance to enjoy the flavours of Angus with a Tartan Day Menu, such as the Victorian Kitchen Restaurant at Glamis Castle and the Drovers Inn, Memus, near Kirriemuir. 'The Drovers Inn specialises in modern Scottish cuisine and quality, locally sourced, seasonal produce,' said Eden Sinclair, chef at the Drovers. 'During the Tartan Day Scotland Festival, we'll be enticing our diners to sample the very best of the Angus larder with a selection of Tartan Day daily specials.'
Other participating eating places include Darlings Coffee Shop in Arbroath, which will feature Cullen Skink and a daily Arbroath Smokie dish on its Tartan Day Menu, and The Pear Tree Restaurant in Auchterhouse, which will be offering East Coast Smoked Haddock Fishcakes, Chicken with skirlie stuffing and clootie dumpling.
The Park Hotel in Montrose offered a Tartan Day Menu during last year's week of Tartan Day celebrations and was keen to be involved in this year's Festival. 'The Park Hotel's Tartan Day Menu generated a fantastic response from new and regular customers,' revealed Allan James, manager of the Park Hotel.
'In 2012, we decided to offer a Tartan Day Menu as a way of promoting the high quality, local produce we use and it proved to be highly-popular,' continued Allan, who is also manager of the nearby Links Hotel. 'The Tartan Day Menu was certainly a win-win situation for us and we had no hesitation about participating in this year's Tartan Day Scotland Festival.
'We will be offering Tartan Day Menus in the Park Hotel and the Links Hotel at lunchtimes and in the evening. At both hotels, we are passionate advocates of local produce and our Tartan Day Menus are a wonderful chance for us to highlight this.'
For more information about the Tartan Day Scotland Festival 2013, pick up the Tartan Day Scotland Festival Events Guide from leisure centres, ACCESS offices, libraries, museums and tourist attractions across Angus, visit www.tartandayscotland.com or contact 01307 473262. To keep up to date with the latest news about the Tartan Day Scotland Festival, including further additions to the programme, 'like' the Tartan Day Scotland Facebook page.
