Caithness Smoke House

Had really nice chats with the owner. Overall very authentic experience and lovely smoked food (highly recommend Smoked Salmon pâté). Top tip: go early in the week as they are likely to have more stock available.

We came here for a peruse whilst on our honeymoon. We didn’t realise but they were actually closed!The owners very kindly allowed us to do a bit of shopping on the stock they had left, as we had come so far.Very kind people they didn’t have to do that at all for us. They were glad to help, we had some delicious smoked haddock and salmon. We also bought some cheese and butter to take home with us. Definitely recommend !

Right at the northern tip of the mainland sits Caithness Smokehouse. Proprietors John and Christine Inglis chose to set up next to the major fishing port of Scrabster, ensuring that produce is as fresh and as locally sourced as can be. Simple, traditional methods are used in their large range of smoked products, which include hot- and cold-smoked salmon, hake, haddock, as well as seafood, venison, bacon, goose, cheese – and even butter, eggs and oatmeal for oatcakes. Although they don’t see as many tourists as they used to, John feels the smoking industry is still held in high regard, and reckons ‘people will still pay money for quality goods’. The majority of their produce is delivered to Inverness, with roughly 30 per cent of sales coming via their online ordering facility. Word of mouth has spread their reputation south of the border, and their butter is to be featured on tables at Wimbledon and The Ashes in 2013.

I made a late Christmas hamper gift (Popular variety hamper) request after they had sold out, John was very helpful in organising me an order anyway. I had personally tried their products with family last Christmas and knew it would be the perfect gift! If you haven't tried their smoked butter your Christmas is not complete without it! Great quality, fresh goods. The delivery was prompt and customer service a 10, Christine was also lovely enough to send me a picture before it was couriered out. Please support this lovely business, they really do an amazing job!

Well worth it! Best butter I've ever had! Definitely will checkout their online shop.Extremely enthusiast owners gave ~15minute explanations of smoking methods. We then purchased a selection: both the cold and hot smoked salmon; the mussels (I'd never realised you could smoke mussels, not sure I can go back to having them unsmoked now!); smoked cheese; and the award winning smoked butter. If there was anything left, I'd have the same again for lunch tomorrow!The house was very well signposted from the road . It's the last one at the end, with a branded van parked outside.

John and partner (apologies for forgetting your name) own an extremely authentic smokehouse. We arrived without warning and were welcomed as if we were family.We left with four different products and probably should have left with six. The salmon (x2), mussels and trout alleviated our van-cooked meals to London standards. A must stop for road trippers appreciating a good meal!

Thank you John and Christine. The cheese we got earlier was amazing. And it was great that you took the time to talk to us and tell us about the business. Well will be repeat customers. If anyone is in the area please you need to stop on and try the smoked products, you definitely won't be disappointed. But if you're not on the area go to the online shop, it's worth it. Johnny and Hazel

We've been to 3 smokehouses in one week and this is by far the best! We tried the salmon, trout and butter - all fantastic (salmon especially). Really well priced as well, we paid x3 somewhere else and it wasn't as good. My only regret is that we didn't buy more to take back to London with us.

Just polished off a plateful of smoked haddock risotto, made with some very tasty smoked Haddock from this smokehouse. Absolutely fantastic service from Ian, who took the time to explain the smoking process. Will definitely be getting more produce.

Delicious products, the salmon has a long clean finish that you don't get with supermarket bought smoked salmon. The smoked muscles are the nicest you can get locally and the smoked trout is beautiful with salad and crusty bread. I would definitely recommend to anyone looking for amazing smoked salmon :3