[][1]The Met Bar: Nineties memorabilia up for auction If you have at least £5k to spare then you may want to splash out and buy the entire interior of London’s Met Bar. The iconic Nineties drinking hole closes at the weekend for a...
[][1]Mithas: aiming to redefine Indian restaurants in Edinburgh After much anticipation and even more delay, Mithas restaurant in Edinburgh’s Leith opened a couple of months back and the blog missed it. It’s the latest...
[][1]A bacon fan demonstrates the strength of their allegiance The reputation of journalism has taken a bit of a battering of late but this hasn’t stopped the 5pm blog from breaking all the rules in order to bring our readers the...
Just a quick mention for tonight’s Battle of the Brewers competition taking place at the Queen’s Arms on Frederick Street in Edinburgh. Williams Brothers brewers will be taking on the Stewart Brewing crew in a taste off. Both...
This afternoon, I shall be putting my food writer hat on and babbling away on Radio Scotland’s Kitchen Cafe show. The subjects up for discussion are Scotland as a food destination, Glasgow Restaurant Association (GRA) and the recent,...
As the name delicately hints, Ristorante Ferrari is a new Italian restaurant which has opened in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh. Regional Italian cooking is the name of the game from the family-owned restaurant. The Sunday...
[][1]Brian Maule plating up The eponymous head of the kitchen team and owner of Brian Maule at Chardon d’Or, the Ayrshire-born chef has just celebrated ten years in business at his Glasgow restaurant on West Regent Street. Along with...
Yesterday’s Sunday Times had a quirky wee story about new advances in robotic barmen. Or rather robotic bar staff as customers can choose whether to have a male of female face displayed on the robot’s monitor. [][1]Bar staff of...
[][1]Fruit tart: part of the government's recommended five a day This scribbler has always had a soft spot for French food so it was a big ‘Bonjour pal’ to the news that French Fancies had opened on London Street in...
[][1]Bob Marley: now flogging soft drinks The blog has no strong feelings about Bob Marley beyond liking a couple of the better known songs and scoffing gently at dippy students who put posters of the man on their walls. Still, we did...
[][1]It's going to get weird in the Merchant City this weekend The Merchant City Festival launches in Glasgow today and the area’s bars and restaurants are stoking the festival’s fires with numerous fun-filled events. The blog...
[][1]Columbian asparagus: you snort it. It's post modern. Or ironic. Or a decadent symptom of excess. The blog likes a bit of fun and frivolity as much as the next man but was stunned by the crass, try hard trendiness of a new product from...
[][1]The Supper Club at 29: setting for the GRA Gastronomic Gala Dinner Want to help Maggie’s charity and enjoy a meal cooked by five of Glasgow’s top chefs? Step this way. The Glasgow Restaurant Association (GRA) has organised a...
[][1]The Whisky Afternoon Tea at Cameron House may put hairs on your chest Cameron House on Loch Lomond has been putting out some quirky marketing recently; not least the Live Like a Laird and Lady promo which we wrote about a month...
[][1]It's coming. BrewDog’s long awaited Glasgow bar seems to be spending a long time in its kennel making itself look purdy before its big debut. At the time of writing, the latest news was that the team was going to try and open...
[][1]Tanjore: flying the flag for southern Indian scran Your blogger is not going to pretend to be an expert on the subject but, traditionally, a large proportion of Indian restaurants in the UK owe more to Bangladesh and Pakistan than...
