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Faulds the Butcher Traditional butcher using old established methods and sourcing almost all produce locally from South West Scotland. Beef is hung and matured for 3 weeks.

13/08/2026

Good Evening

This is the first post for quite a while. In the summer there’s not much for butchers to say. However as the year is rolling on and as we have received order forms for Christmas turkeys I thought I’d better let you know.

There are two questions we have been asked more than any other recently.
‘Do you not sell potted meat anymore? And have you stopped selling Shorts pies and where can we get them?

In answer to the first question it is nearly 30 years since we last made potted meat or potted hough as we prefer to call it. I have managed to source a very tasty potted meat from the other side of the country and it appears to be going down very well.

Shorts pies however is another matter. They stopped trading a few months ago after 100 years. One door closes etc. Iain and Arran have worked hard developing our Scotch pie, plain or onion and we are selling more and more every week. They complement our existing range of steak pies and sausage rolls perfectly. Wholesale enquiries welcome.

18/06/2026

Good evening two big events this weekend. Scotland playing their second match in the World Cup in America and Father’s Day on Sunday.

World Cup first. We wondered how we could celebrate the upcoming Scotland game. Our product and development department ie Iain and Arran were tasked with creating something different, Scottish and traditional and they have! They have made a haggis and Irn Bru burger. It does sound different combining one Scottish icon with another. As you know haggis is a product that is not allowed to be imported to the USA. These guys don’t know what they are missing. ⚽️

Father’s Day on Sunday. Your daddy, the most important man in your family’s life, at least I was until my daughters were about four. A perfect day for a family meal or BBQ at home we have all the usual suspects for you, beautifully matured beef, both steaks and joints, the first new season’s Spring lamb and of course everything you need for a BBQ. 🥩🍗

If you have any specific requests please phone 01563522704 and we will be delighted to help you with your purchase.

23/05/2026

Good morning

I forgot to say in my last post when I was talking about our chicken fest that this weekend we have chicken, whole or portioned, all shapes and sizes ideal for the BBQ. As a special today we can spatchcock one of our delicious large chickens for only £14. This is something different and will comfortably feed a greedy family of six !!!!!!!

I hope I haven’t forgotten anything else. The sun is now shining enjoy your weekend.

21/05/2026

Good evening

Several people have asked us recently if we were still trading as we haven’t posted for some time. We very much are still trading but just haven’t had a lot to say.

The big news in the last few weeks is that we all attended a dinner in The Trades House in Glasgow where Arran and Iain were honoured by The Incorporation of Fleshers. Arran as the apprentice and Iain as the mentor. Ask to see their photos when you are next in the shop.

The first sign of Summer has hopefully arrived because our first box of Scotch of tomatoes has arrived.

From what I hear the bank holiday weekend has to be warm and sunny. To prepare for a busy BBQ weekend we have cranked up the old burger machine (me). The full burger range will be available. Too many to list here but we will include our famous Guinness burgers.

For something different, flavoured chicken drumsticks the flavours being salt and pepper, sticky BBQ, Piri Piri and Chinese.

By popular demand and requests we have taken delivery of a real Belfast ham perfect for Sunday breakfast.

We’re hoping to sell out of our BBQ offerings this weekend. If you have any specific demands please phone us on 01563522704.

Enjoy your holiday weekend. My grandson is coming to see me.☺️

14/03/2026

Good Morning

You probably don’t need me to remind you but tomorrow is Mothers Day (the most important woman in your life….she thinks) Well you’re too late to book a table at her favourite restaurant and a bunch of petrol station flowers doesn’t really hit the spot.

So why not dine out at home? We have the perfect centrepieces for a family meal at home. Extra large chickens which almost anyone can turn into a simple roast dinner, steaks and roast meat (we can advise on full cooking instructions) A nice bottle of w**e, no rubbish now, and you’ve cracked it.

To finish we’ve even thought of this for you. Yesterday we took delivery of a full range of the Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding products. Nip in to the Forum Cafe for some ice cream and you’ve cracked the pudding as well.

There that wasn’t too painful was it?

Also yesterday we had another delivery two days late, because of the weather sixty kilos of Charles McLeod’s Stornaway Black Pudding. This will sit proudly beside our Ayrshire black pudding. This is in order to celebrate National Black Pudding Day on the 18th of March but I bet you all knew that.

Enjoy your weekend and make sure you spoil your maw. You only get one. 🌺

05/03/2026

Good Evening and a Happy National Book Day. I bet you knew that. Much more importantly this is British Pie Week. How do they think them up?

An old established local pie maker Shorts Pies has retired. They will be much missed. Shorts of Irvine and for the last forty years of Kilmarnock who were known far and wide for their quality Scotch pies. I can still taste the pastry.

We have decided to enter the Scotch Pie market. What better time to launch it than British Pie Week. It’s a very well filled product using our own meat and William Sword’s Pastry. They are very good but I fear I’ve gone up a size and had to put another notch in my belt. This testing of products is exhausting.

We will have our full range of pastry products on display from tomorrow. These include: steak pies, hand held steak pies, cowboy pies, chicken curry pies, including mini ones and sausage rolls. This list does not include the pie that dare not speak its name in case there are any lawyers reading this but we will have plenty of these as well.

I haven’t forgotten gluten free pie lovers. We do a gf and an individual gf steak pie as well as gf sausage rolls but it’s helpful if these are ordered.

Enjoy reading a book and always say ‘Aye to a pie’ 🥧

Good evening As we slide peacefully towards the end of the first Friday the 13th of the year we have much to look forwar...
13/02/2026

Good evening

As we slide peacefully towards the end of the first Friday the 13th of the year we have much to look forward to. Love appears to be in the air and tomorrow’s the 14th which is Valentine’s Day.

I like Valentine’s Day as the days are that wee but longer. It was crisp this morning and the view of Arran was staggeringly beautiful. This brings me back to Valentine’s Day. We’ve all had staggeringly beautiful dates or partners and I reckon you’re better dining out at home.

For the last few years we have done a Valentine’special and this year is no exception. For only £25 you can get two superb Scotch sirloin steaks and a Cartmel sticky toffee pudding for two. If you’re feeling especially lucky and you hope to have a breakfast to cook we will even throw in two slices of sausage, 4 pork links and a packet of tattie scones. Just ask for the Valentine special while stocks last. Not to your taste? We have Chinese pork love hearts as well❤️

As I’ve said above we’ve brought in a small range of puddings from the Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding Company.

I’ve kept what I think is the best to the last, Tomahawk Steaks. We have been nursing and maturing these bad boys for over six weeks. They are in superb condition and will feed two comfortably. I only hope there’s one left for my birthday tea on Sunday.

Have a fantastic and romantic weekend. 🥰❤️🥩🥂

22/01/2026

Good evening

Is it really just a month since the festive season? I’m glad to say that I have got over that vision when I close my eyes I see steak pies. Hundreds of them.

But move on we must and this weekend marks the Bard’s anniversary. So we come to haggis. The window in the shop is full of them, all sizes available at time of writing. The boys are hoping to make their haggis pies and haggis towers. If you just want a wee taste we also sell the beast by the slice. For the poor souls who can’t face it we even have a vegetarian haggis.

By the weekend we hope to have a little venison on sale. A lot of it has been ordered but we should have venison burgers and venison sausages along with some diced venison.

If you’re going to or having a Burns Supper have a great weekend.

30/12/2025

Good evening

Last day of another year tomorrow. Boy has it flown in but then they all do nowadays.

Our wee shop aka the Tardis is stappit fou with steak pies, all shapes and sizes. We ran out of steak pies last year, I assure you we won’t this year. No need to phone I’m sure there will be enough for everyone.

New line. We have been asked quite often if we do Tomahawk steaks. Yes indeed we do being one of the few bone in butchers left. If you like a meat treat we have a few of these bad boys that are at least forty days aged on display tomorrow.

This will be probably the last post of the year so as they say somewhere …..
LANG MAY YOUR LUM REAK!

20/12/2025

Good evening

I call it the Strictly effect. It comes on and I go to sleep on the chair. My wife who knows about these things said I managed to get 3 hours 20 minutes before she felt she had to wake me.

Well that was one Saturday! Really really busy with lots of new faces and customers who are finding us for the first time. I hope they enjoy our product and patter and return for more.

I forgot to mention yesterday some items we do not stock regularly. Packets of beef dripping ideal for real chips and roast potatoes, ox cheeks for slow cooking, fresh ox kidney for soup or to add to a steak pie (my granny made a magnificent kidney soup and I can still taste it. Regrettably both she and the recipe left us 50 years ago). One or 2 enquiries about venison yes we do have a little although most of it is ordered.

A little known fact about our business is we do meat vouchers. These are the perfect present if you are stuck for a gift idea. Any amount is redeemable in the next six months.

As Iain and Arran are going to be very busy tomorrow, Sunday, I feel I should go in and help them. To this end the shop will be open tomorrow. If you’re out and about please come in and interrupt my reading of the Sunday papers and my drinking of cold coffee.

No rant but I think EAC spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on a Traffic Management Scheme a few years ago. Why does John Finnie Street look like a car park with very slow movement of cars?

Address

70 John Finnie Street
Kilmarnock
KA11BS

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8am - 5:30pm
Friday 8am - 5:30pm
Saturday 8am - 5:30pm

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01563522704

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