[][1]Martin Wishart (centre) won the Fine Dining Restaurant award at last year's bash Nominations for the 2012 Scottish Restaurant Awards, sponsored by 5pm.co.uk and Business 7, are now open and if you want to have your say then click...
[][1]Grouse: laying low if they know what's best Your blogger never bought into all the shenanigans about the Glorious Twelfth, the day on which the game season opens and restaurants compete to be the first to put grouse on the menu. Of...
[][1]Whisky masterclasses are a popular sport at Foodies OK, this morning Edinburgh does look like a duck pond but, having just checked the Beeb’s site, the weather does look set to improve at the weekend. Rain seems to be off the...
[][1]Arisaig in the Merchant City To be honest, most nights at Arisaig involve feasting with a Scottish flavour but, this Saturday evening, the Merchant City restaurant is pulling out all the stops and holding a five course dinner with...
[][1]Metropolitan: gearing up for Christmas No? It can’t be? Good grief. The 5pm blog has received its first Christmas PR and we still haven’t vacuumed up the tinsel from last time around. If we had a prize, say a bag of...
[][1]Pipe bands from around the globe will be competing at The Worlds on Saturday Piping Live!, the world’s biggest piping festival, will be hitting all the right notes as it gets underway in Glasgow today. It culminates on Saturday...
It’s festival time in Edinburgh which means that every square foot of space from phone boxes to underground vaults is being turned into a venue. New places to eat are also popping up in unorthodox spots. Fred Berkmiller, owner of...
[][1]Jacqueline O'Donnell taking some prawns to task The opening weekend of the Edinburgh Fringe means that the capital will be as crazy as a bag of cut snakes this weekend. If that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea then take a...
[][1]The Brasserie at Malmaison in Glasgow The good people at Glasgow’s Malmaison usually have a packed schedule of food and drink events on the go. Today is no different with a Taste of Mal mini food festival taking place at the West...
[][1]Darin Campbell: new Head Chef at Hotel du Vin at One Dev Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens has a new head chef and Darin Campbell might be just the man to gain a Michelin star for the Glasgow restaurant. The Ayrshire-born chef...
It’s early August in Edinburgh and the smell of greasepaint and comedians’ tears hangs in the air already. But the world’s biggest arts festival is not the only show in town over the next few weeks. Now in its fifth year,...
[][1]Luke Haines or Laughing Boy to his friends Fans of Luke Haines, the arch misanthrope behind The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder and the memoir Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in its Downfall, will be delighted, in a non-expressive, low key...
The Glasgow Restaurant Association, 5pm and some fifty or so of Glasgow’s top restaurants have launched their August Dinearound initiative with a little help from Glenfiddich. Just £15.95 will secure a two or three course meal plus a...
[][1]Soon be nothing left 'cept the moo With a culinary CV that lists dishing up rook and grey squirrel, Colin Clydesdale and his kitchen teams have never been afraid of exploring the less well known parts of the ingredients map. Now the...
Just a very short post to draw your attention to the excellent Girl meets Food series of recipes which is running on the Vice website. Sassy, opinionated and very funny, it’s like Nigella’s foul-mouthed twin sister has been...
The new National Museum of Scotland opens in Edinburgh today after a big bucks refit and it looks spectacular. Catering company Benugo, who also look after the grub at Edinburgh Castle, are operating a cafe and a ground floor brasserie...
