[][1]The Whole Foods Market store in Giffnock: it's a peach Hark! Can you hear the celestial choirs of angels singing? There must be a new branch of Whole Foods Market opening. Giffnock is the lucky destination for Scotland’s first...
[][1]The original Kama Sutra on Sauchiehall Street ‘Aromatic foods, seductive music, sensuous perfumes and sultry surroundings’ will be getting Lothian Road all hot under the collar when the latest offshoot of the Kama Sutra group of...
[][1]Cafe St Honore: lovely and calm in the dining room but all hands on deck in the kitchens It’s all go at Cafe St Honoré where Neil Forbes, Scottish Chef of the Year at the most recent Scottish Restaurant Awards, is the boss man in the...
[][1]The Wine Gang: guilty of sniffing out fine wines The Wine Gang’s Christmas Wine Fair kicks off tomorrow at noon in the Merchant’s Hall on Edinburgh’s Hanover Street. It looks like it’s going to be an absolute corker (boom and again...
This blogger doesn’t need much convincing about how well beer matches food. A recent Innis and Gunn beer dinner at Edinburgh’s Hotel du Vin helped seal the deal. So, I was interested to see this piece in The Independent about a...
[][1]Martha's rather stunning mackerel salad Martha’s is a new fast casual restaurant which has just opened on St Vincent Street in Glasgow city centre. Inspired by new openings in America and, more recently, London, the fast casual...
[][1]Khushi's is coming back from the flames Three years after a fire knocked the Victoria Street branch out of action, Khushi’s Indian restaurant is resurfacing in Edinburgh. The Massimo’s on Antigua Place has vanished from...
A wee shout out to Asti which has just taken up residence on Edinburgh’s ever buzzy Broughton Street in the premises formerly occupied by the Polish restaurant Pani Solinska. Asti is an Italian cafe restaurant. You can check out...
[][1]Hansel and Gretel are taking up the GRA's Dine Around offer November, a time when most of us are watching our pennies in the run-up to Christmas but, thanks to the Glasgow Restaurant Association and 5pm, that doesn’t mean you...
In Edinburgh, Redwood restaurant on St Stephen Street has been replaced by Purslane. Paul Gunning is the chef owner and he is aiming to deliver ‘casual fine dining’. The idea is to have a relaxed atmosphere, slightly rustic...
Darcy’s bar diner cafe in Princes Square has been a Glasgow institution since, let’s see, cripes, perhaps the late 17th century. But while it may predate the Internet, Darcy’s never actually gets old and tired. Rather...
[][1]The interior of The Mulroy. Royal Germans not pictured. While on the subject of launches (see below), the blog has just been told that Edinburgh’s Mulroy restaurant, which we mentioned here, was officially launched on...
Yesterday’s papers were packed with stories telling us that if only the Scots, Irish and Welsh ate more like the English then we could live longer. The language it was couched in (and indeed the Daily Mail’s use of Rab C to...
[][1]Learn to manage your dough at Fanelli's We’re going to skip all that baloney about making it the way Momma made it but, if you do want to learn how to produce your own pizza, then you might want to head to Fanelli’s in Glasgow’s...
We would have told you this yesterday but the keyboard was too wet with tears to type properly: Bradford have won the Curry Capital 2011 award relegating last year’s winner, Glasgow, to second place. Edinburgh, the only other...
[][1]The Wagamama chain sells 1500 portions of edamame beans every week Well, it’s been previewing for a few days but Wagamama opens officially in Edinburgh today. Phenomenally successful, the pan-Asian chain introduced Japanese...
