][1]Blackwood’s Bar and Grill in Edinburgh’s Nira Caledonia hotel is re-launching its Sunday roast lunch. For £25 a couple, guests can tuck into the best British sirloin beef with Yorkshires and all the trimmings. The Sunday roast will run alongside the restaurant’s recently updated a la carte menu.
Many of the dishes at Blackwood’s Bar and Grill are cooked in their rather swish, charcoal-fuelled Josper oven. We talked to head chef David Scott about this nifty bit of kit a couple of weeks back. You can read all about it here.
Incidentally, the hotel has just upgraded their rooms and they look very fantoosh.
Chop Chop in Glasgow
Edinburgh’s first Chop Chop restaurant rocketed to national fame when it appeared on Gordon Ramsay’s F Word.
Having expanded to two Edinburgh branches, the firm is now on the march to Glasgow. The 5pm Dining blog understands that the new West Coast Chop Chop is scheduled to open on Mitchell Street in September.
][7]Ladies Day at Musselburgh
In two weekends, it will be Ladies Day at Musselburgh Race Course. The fine people at Twenty Princes Street are aiming to help race goers enjoy the entire day by offering brunch on the morning of the races.
So, on Saturday 14th June, guests can kick start their day with a glass of Prosecco before nibbling on lots of bite-sized servings of smoked salmon blinis; quail eggs and bacon on toast; smoked haddock hash browns; blueberry and banana muffins plus natural yoghurts with fruit compote and granola.
Tickets are £20 a person and brunch is served from 9am to noon giving you plenty of time to get to Mussy for the first race at 1pm.
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