Award-winning Scottish craft butchers
Exceptional Scottish meat, traditionally prepared by our family butchers and delivered chilled nationwide.
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Choose from family favourites, traditional Scottish cuts and award-winning specialities — prepared fresh by Macqueens and packed for your door.
Scottish Craft Butchers
Not just badges on a website. These are the awards Macqueens has earned for the food customers actually take home — including speciality sausages and burgers.
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Celebrating the steak links that have earned recognition in Scotland.
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A little island knowledge
Bute’s green, fertile countryside is home to beef, sheep and dairy farming. Agriculture is woven into the life of the island.
Discover Bute’s farming landscape ↗On Bute, farmers have used cattle and sheep together in managed grazing systems, carefully monitoring the grass available to their animals.
From Scotland’s Farm Advisory Service ↗What cattle eat can influence the flavour of beef. Grass-based forage diets are associated with a stronger flavour, while ageing also develops flavour.
The science behind flavour · AHDB ↗The easy choice
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Rothesay, Isle of Bute
Macqueens is a family butcher with island roots. From locally sourced cuts to speciality sausages, the counter has been part of Rothesay life since 1976.
Read about the Hairy Bikers visitInsulated packaging designed to keep your order fresh in transit.
Prepared by skilled craft butchers, not an anonymous warehouse line.
Clear delivery days and tracking, with nationwide UK mainland options.