When it comes to food, the 5pm Dining blog reckons that you can never start planning too early for each meal.
We’re usually in for a bad night’s sleep if we haven’t locked down tomorrow’s dinner before bedtime.
With that in mind, it’s good to be able to put the weekend of the 5th and 6th of September in the diary as ‘sorted for grub’.
Taking place in SWG3 in Finnieston, Let’s Eat Glasgow! is billed as ‘Scotland’s first truly indigenous restaurant festival and pop-up market’.
Real Food, Real Folk
The festival of food is the first event staged by the new Real Food, Real Folk co-operative.
Participating restaurants include Cail Bruich, The Cottonrake Bakery, The Crabshakk, The Gannet, Guy’s, Mother India, Ox and Finch, Stravaigin and the Ubiquitous Chip. Over 40 artisan producers from the West of Scotland will be showcasing and selling their wares.
The festival will be free to enter. Visitors will be able to swap pre-sold food vouchers for restaurant dishes. The £5 food vouchers are available from www.letseatglasgow.co.uk
There will be limited vouchers available on the day so pre-purchase is recommended.
Diverse food scene
The not-for-profit co-operative has two core aims:
To promote Glasgow’s increasingly lively and diverse food scene as one to rival the likes of New York, Tokyo, Barcelona and London.
To help raise debate about, and help tackle, the poor nutrition and food awareness prevalent across some areas of the city.
Any funds raised through Let’s Eat Glasgow! will go into the Real Food, Real Folk co-operative’s community outreach programme which currently includes work with Spirit Aid, an initiative teaching school children how to cook at an afterschool club in the city.
Growing appetite
Launching the programme and opening food voucher sales, Colin Clydesdale, founder of Real Food Real Folk, said:
‘The sense of excitement and calls of “finally a great food event for Glasgow” since we announced our plans has proven that now, more than ever, is the time to take the growing appetite for great food to the street and kick start a movement for eating well across the city.
‘As well as the restaurants and pop-up market, visitors will find livestock and an interactive theatre with butchers and fishmongers preparing cuts and fillets which will be cooked by guest chefs.
Promised plates include lamb meatballs with hazelnut dukkah, fatoush salad and baba ganoush; Loch Duart smoked salmon with avocado, cucumber, dill and horseradish and, from the Ubiquitous Chip, roast Renfrewshire wood pigeon served with an Argyll forest mushroom barley risotto and soused chanterelles.
Let’s Eat Glasgow! will take place at SWG3, Finnieston – Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September.