It will soon be St Andrew’s Day and Arisaig restaurant in Glasgow’s Merchant Square is celebrating with a three course dinner and ceilidh on the night.
Dinner will be served on the restaurant’s terrace overlooking the square.
As you might expect, Scottish ingredients are to the fore on the menu. The starters include hot and cold smoked salmon, Cullen skink, and smoked Highland venison.
Main course choices range from a wild mushroom Wellington to lamb rump stovies via a Scotch rib-eye steak with skirlie tomato and mushroom ragu.
Cranachan mess, clootie dumpling or a selection of Scottish cheeses will round the meal off in true Caledonian style.
Whisky collection
After a brief break (we recommend a little something from the restaurant’s fabulous whisky collection), it’s time to take your partner and get ready to strip the willow, do the postie’s jig and celebrate Mairi’s wedding.
Tickets are £45 a head. The dinner takes place on the evening of Sunday 30th November.
Intriguingly, St Andrew is not just the patron saint of Scotland. Greece, Romania, Russia, Poland, the Ukraine and Barbados also stake claim to the saint.
Find a husband
After in-depth research (i.e. Wikipedia), we can reveal that many countries have fun traditions regarding the eve of St Andrew’s Day.
Apparently, in some parts of eastern europe, young women would write down the names of potential husbands on pieces of paper which were stuck into pieces of dough. The first dumpling to float to the surface of the water would reveal the name of their future husband.
How the future spouses felt about being represented by a dumpling isn’t mentioned.