Gary Lewis, the chef proprietor at the Station Lounge in Paisley, has been back in touch. You may remember that we blogged earlier about the Welsh haggis pakora that he had on his menu. Gary, a Welshman, also runs the Cajun-themed Gel...
The Herald’s Ron Mackay draws the blog’s attention to a new restaurant on Glasgow’s Argyle Street. Tropeiro is named after Brazilian cowboys and its main attraction is its take on the South American churrasco or...
Angels With Bagpipes is a new Scottish Italian restaurant which opens on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile today. It’s the baby of Marina Crolla whose grandfather Alfonso Crolla opened the Valvona and Crolla deli. Located in the former...
[][1]Roby Brydon and Steve Coogan put the comedy into a la carte Cooking has been a mainstay of the reality TV schedules for years now but, with the possible exception of Lenny Henry’s Chef!, there has not been much in the way of a...
[][1]Physical theatre is part of the Merchant City Festival. Possibly a scary part. Yesterday’s round-up of festival food should have included this weekend’s Merchant City Festival in Glasgow but my plank tendencies surfaced so...
Never afraid to court good or bad publicity, BrewDog, the Fraserburgh-based craft beermakers, have just released a new bottling called The End of History. At 55% ABV, it is easily the strongest beer in the world and, at £500 a bottle, it...
[][1]Iain Spink and his famous Arbroath smokies are one of the attractions at the Big Tent Festival Large numbers of Scottish festival producers will be spending most of tonight crossing and uncrossing their fingers while praying for the...
[][1]'We're looking for a lovely plate of food.' Yay! After what seems like an eternity since Masterchef last ended, Celebrity Masterchef is back on our screens tonight. At 8pm, John Torode and Gregg Wallace will be back on BBC One to...
The Guardian has recycled a very old story about a caterer who was asked to provide the food for a Roman orgy being held by a Harvard Professor in the Seventies. The caterer, now a professor in her own right, duly went away and studied her...
[][1]The Rat Pack is back in Edinburgh The Rat Pack piano bar on Edinburgh’s Shandwick Place re-opened at the weekend after closing for a refurbishment. Now extended and scrubbed up, the Rat Pack is back in action until 3am every...
The 5pm blog has been unusually quiet on the bacon reporting front of late. Usually a month doesn’t go by without word reaching us of some new bacon-related folly but, over the last few months, there’s been zip, nowt and...
In Glasgow, Tuscany Square seems to have been replaced by Centro Italiano. A John Street restaurant in the Merchant City, Tuscany Square was open for around a year. Centro Italiano seems to have more of a focus on tapas. Naturally,...
[][1]Eat cake at Cup As always, Byres Road is a hotbed of intrigue as far as the catering trade goes. Mediterraneo has bid its customers a fond adieu and been replaced with Cup who have signed up with 5pm. Specialising in fine tea and...
[][1]The glass cupola at Corinthian Just got this pic in of the dome at Glasgow’s soon to be relaunched Corinthian Club. There can’t be many bars that can boast a ceiling like that. ...
[][1]Sabaton play The Garage in October. They may prefer a curry to a sole Meuniere. On Sauchiehall Street, Rare 325, a short-lived seafood and game restaurant, has closed and been replaced by the Mumbai Brasserie. Situated at the rock...
[][1]The countdown to the Corinthian relaunch is getting closer Yesterday, the blog had an impromptu tour of the Corinthian Club on Glasgow’s Ingram Street. Closed in January, the flagship venue of Stefan King’s G1 Group is...
