the iona

This is one of the finest shops in the North, a trove of good things chosen with great care. It manages to sell wholefoods without feeling wholefoody, and to sell gourmet things without being in any way precious. This is the result of Ms Brave's excellent connections: we have found farmhouse cheeses for sale in here that we didn't even know existed, and the affiliations with the organic and, especially, the bio-dynamic associations means that fine foods beat a path to her door. The vegetables from the Glencraig community are fantastic the eggs are perhaps the best sold in any shop, and The Iona is, all in all, an invaluable place.