][1]Dig out your kilt and dust off your Tam O’Shanter performance ‘cos tonight is Burns Night.
Lots of 5pm restaurants are running special dinners either this evening or over the course of this week but the blog was particularly tickled by the shenanigans planned for The Arches in Glasgow.
You may remember that last November, The Arches Cafe was taken over by performance artist Adrienne who created her own menu and stamped her own interior design on the space.
The same thing is happening this month as the performance duo Fish and Game have taken their turn to transform the cafe into a tartan-loving, Highland lodge complete with its own menu.
Fish and Game are a Glasgow-based duo creating experimental work which sits somewhere between theatre and live art. Past pieces include Eilidh’s Daily Ukulele Ceilidh and the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe hit Two Trillion.
This evening Fish and Game, aka Eilidh MacAskill and Robert Walton, will be putting on an alternative Burns Night show which will run 6pm to 8pm. They will also perform on the evenings of 28th January and 10th and 18th February. Just don’t expect it to be anything like a trad Burns dinner.
To go with the show, they have also devised their own taste of Scotland menu which sells at £8.95. Here it is:
A wee dram of AncNoc to whet the appetite
STARTERS
Lentil soup (v)
Smoked Mackerel salad in a rosemary dressing
Black pudding and white pudding Terrine
MAINS
Game pie
Haggis, neeps and tatties or
veggie haggis, neeps and tatties (v)
Tweed kettle
(salmon, peas and leeks, tatties)
Rumbledethumps (v)
SWEETS
Scottish cheeses and oatcakes
Atholl Brose ice cream
Cranachan