Village Stores

The hand painted Celtic style signs at either end of the village lead to the shop & café in the heart of Kilmelford. One of the oldest stone buildings in the village, the shop and café nestle in between the old church and the burn of Alt na Cille.
The smell of home cooking often leads you to the front door, inside you will find a traditional village shop with a difference, the shop is spread over three floors, and mingles informally with the café and crafts area, so that you can linger and browse.

We try to stock all the usual commodities that you would expect from a village shop, but in addition a range of goodies that you don’t find in most……
We stock a range of delicatessen goods, Scottish cheeses, locally smoked fish and meats, local wild venison & game, organic and free range & fair trade goods, dry cured bacon, Scottish wines, beers & spirits and of course our range of home cooked foods….all made on the premises from the best of ingredients. We can take orders for picnics, parties, birthdays etc etc. Just email us with your requests.
We have lovely cards, books and gifts as well as arts and crafts.

Aswell as all this we still perform all the usual services that people expect from a village shop (many of them free of charge, so don't forget to support the facility, village shops are a disappearing feature in this country, "Use us or lose us!").
We are a post office with banking facilities, we have fishing licenses for the local fresh water lochs, newspapers, we take village hall bookings & payments. We have information on local events & functions and ticket sales, advice on local facilities where to eat and stay. We are also the unofficial village watch and keep an eye out for the vunerable in the village and make sure folk know what is going on if anyone needs help, an essential hub in a village community.