This week’s 5pm Dining blog may have been a little Edinburgh-centric but, if you are based at the other end of the M8, fear not, for we bring glad tidings from Glasvegas.

First up, caffeine connoisseurs may want to steam over to the Briggait tomorrow when the second Glasgow Coffee Festival takes place.

The £10 admission price includes one hot drink and entry to a prize draw for coffee equipment, barista training and a year’s supply of tea. We’re joking. It’s a year’s supply of coffee.

Over thirty exhibitors will be extolling the benefits of all things coffee from 10am.

Visitors will be able to drink deep of barista wisdom delivered via ten master classes.

All proceeds will be donated to Socialbite and Girls Gotta Run.

Authentic flavours

Next up, this blog scribbler has always had a bit of thing for Asian food. The last few years have been pretty tasty as more Japanese, Hong Kong, Malaysian and Vietnamese places have sprung up in the Central Belt.

Brought up in a time when Asian food seldom meant anything more exciting than gloopy sweet and sour chicken balls, the arrival of authentic, cleaner, more vibrant flavours has been very welcome.

We particularly like the sort of small, keenly priced, mom and pop operations where one can whizz in, slurp a big bowl of soupy noodles and still get plenty of change from a tenner.

Which brings us to Noodle, a new Chinese place on Glasgow’s Bath Street, which has just joined 5pm.

It is a simple, uncluttered looking place with wooden stools and utilitarian tables. Each to their own but it is perhaps not the place to celebrate a landmark wedding anniversary.

Intriguing promises

However, if you fancy a little walk off the most well beaten culinary paths then it makes intriguing promises.

I’m not sure I’m quite ready to tackle the cucumber and jellyfish combo but the Chinese spice roasted beef shin has my name on it along with the chicken with preserved radish in broth.

The star of the show are the hand-pulled noodles. The restaurant tells us these are known as Lan zhou la mian or ‘beef hand-pulled noodle’.

They are cooked fresh for each order and our understanding is that guests can watch the chefs demonstrating their noodle wrangling skills.

All the meat at Noodle is 100% halal. You can book in here.

No end for Singl-End

Finally, according to this article in the Evening Times, Singl-End, formerly an Italian restaurant, is to reopen on 28th October as a community cafe and bakehouse.