PARTY FOOD FROM THE SEAFOOD SHACK
On 3 May 2016 we opened The Seafood Shack in Ullapool. It was a very exciting day for us, our emotions veering from panic when somebody would come to order, laughter when things went wrong, and joy when we successfully closed up for the first day. In total we probably had 20 customers at most, but for us it was a great start to our new venture. We have kept The Seafood Shack a small business but we’ve now got around eight staff and are open seven months of the year, serving up to 300 customers a day. Really it’s pretty amazing our wee Shack can cope sometimes, let alone us!
To this day we still have disagreements or ‘different memories’ on how or when we decided to open The Seafood Shack but we both agree exactly on why. We live in Ullapool, a small fishing village on the north-west coast of Scotland where there are currently around seven local creel boats, four local trawling boats and over a dozen visiting boats landing each week. Many tonnes of seafood are caught in our Scottish seas and then transported straight out of Ullapool. We wanted to play a part – albeit small – in
