[][1]Chickens: be nice to them and win friends and lovers Ah, Valentine’s Day. A chance to show your feelings for your nearest and dearest; a great excuse for going out for a meal and a cracking smokescreen for all sorts of PR...
[][1]Gamba's foup: good for frozen fingers Cockle-warming gossip from Gamba seafood restaurant in Glasgow which is reporting booming sales in its fish soup or ‘foup’. Since Monday 9th January, chef patron Derek Marshall has...
[][1]Pull on a yellow jersey and enjoy the Belleville makeover at The Arches We weren’t going to do individual restaurants for Valentine’s ‘cos it would just get too much but we were particularly tickled by The Arches effort. The city...
Forget Valentine’s for a second. The big storm on the love affair horizon is the 29th of February. Custom has it that on a Leap Year such as this, women can propose to men. Admittedly, in the 21st century, when women can serve in...
If you’ve hidden behind the sofa and covered your eyes with your hands in the vain hope that Valentine’s Day might magically disappear then you are heading for a world of pain. You might think that Valentine’s Day is a...
The G1 group have been busy in St Andrews turning the old Victoria Cafe on St Mary’s Place into a pub kitchen and club/music venue called, wait for it, the Vic. The original Vic opened just before World War I and to still be going strong...
[][1]Jay Rayner: not at the dinner table for once. Yes, I am jealous. The TV schedules may be packed with food and cookery shows but it seems that the radio schedules have a way to go before they are sated. This afternoon, at 3pm, Jay...
A couple of weeks back, we blogged about Steak Edinburgh, the new steakhouse which was limbering up to open in the former pool room at No 12 Picardy Place in Edinburgh. It now looks to be throwing open its doors this Thursday. The 100...
[][1]The Chophouse Brasserie is a meaty offering The Chophouse Brasserie is the latest steak restaurant to launch in the Central Belt. The new venture takes over from the old Sizzlers restaurant which has operated in Glasgow’s...
[][1]Neil Forbes, head chef at Cafe St Honore and Scottish Chef of the Year, is an ambassador for the Science on a Plate project Last night, the blog pulled on its battered journo hat and slouched up to the Scottish Parliament for the...
[][1]BoBar: much warmer than outside At BoBar in Glasgow’s West End, the bar staff have been doing their bit to combat the cold snap with a new cocktail menu. Warming winter ingredients are much to the fore with spicy ginger, honey, ripe...
[][1]Nick Nairn has devised a new feather blade of beef dish for The Kailyard's winter menu Following on from the last post, we see that The Kailyard has also revealed a new winter menu. Like BoBar, The Kailyard is part of the Hilton...
Just so we’re clear . . . There is a lot of press coverage today about TripAdvisor facing criticism over the authenticity of some of their reviews. We would just like to point out that all of 5pm’s restaurant reviews are...
So, it’s ‘Goodbye January’ and ‘Hello’ to what might be the first glimmers of spring on the horizon. Even if there’s a cold snap, it can’t last for long. All of which means that the Scottish...
[][1]Away from your computer and want to book a restaurant? Easy peasy with the 5pm iPhone app With the launch of our new iPhone app, 5pm has just made it even easier to find and book restaurants whether you are in the home, in the office...
It’s all hands on deck at No12 Picardy Place as they race to ready their new restaurant, Steak Edinburgh, for the proposed opening date of February 9th. Completely separate from Restaurant Mark Greenaway which is also at No 12, the...
