Oban pub sets the bar in US food show

What do Cheers, Moe's Tavern, The Drunken Clam, The Bada Bing, The Snakehole Lounge, The Gem Saloon, and Oban's Markie Dans all have in common?

 

They are all bars on American TV shows.

 

The pub on Corran Esplanade joined the list last week when a film crew from the US food programme, The Original Fare, shot scenes about whisky at the bar, with the show's presenter and creator Kelly Cox.

 

The Original Fare has just aired its sixth series on the Public Broadcasting Service PBS, following Kelly Cox as she 'hunts, forages, and farms her way across the globe to search for the best ingredients our planet has to offer'.

 

The episode from Scotland, which was also shot in the nearby Oban hotel, 26 by the Sea, is expected to air on PBS later this year.

 

"attachment_715938" "" "300"] Shooting behind the bar at Markie Dans.

 

Michael McCuish from Oban, a New York-based director of the Skye travel company Away from the Ordinary, helped pitch the idea that Kelly's show should film in his home town.

 

Also featured in the show is Aeneas O'Hara, the owner of Away from the Ordinary, which is headquartered in Portree.

 

Mr McCuish, son of recently retired Oban councillor Roddy McCuish, said: 'It is exciting to see a high calibre US TV production choose to film in Oban.

 

'The show is bound to showcase the best of what the area has to offer, and thus will hopefully encourage many more US travellers to visit us in the near future.

 

'These visitors are bound to receive a warm west welcome and experience the legendary Scottish hospitality we are famed for.'