LEISURE

Every month, coast brings you mouthwatering news featuring top chefs, best local food, great places to eat and new coastal recipes to try

Based in an elegantly refurbished farm-building hotel, Fiona Gibson discovers fine fare and a sea-dwelling surprise on the intriguing Black Isle in Scotland

France may be synonymous with fromage, but the terroir of our green and pleasant land gives rise to all manner of magnificent varieties of our own, declares Tom Parker Bowles, who picks his favourites

While Autocar’s road testers exchange exotic key fobs over Christmas lunch at some richly upholstered ale house at the crowded end of Britain, there’s no such indulgence for those of us in Scotland. H

We’ve eaten and sipped our way through this year’s supermarket Christmas food and here are our favourites