We said that this year was going to be the one in which the eco-friendly credentials of restaurants started to really matter and the just announced launch of The Sustainable Restaurant Association is part of the trend. According to a...
[][1]Albert Roux: building a Scottish empire According to The Herald, Albert Roux is to follow up last year’s restaurant at the Rocpool in Inverness with two more Scottish ventures. In April, he will open a new restaurant in Inver...
[][1]The Rutland has been an exhibitor at previous Taste festivals It’s still a bit too parky for the year’s food festivals to start appearing but there is the occasional bustle in the hedgerows. The annual Taste Festival is...
According to this piece in The Telegraph, early Romans used to celebrate Lupercalia, a fertility festival, around this time of year. Thought to be an early precursor to the modern St Valentine’s Day, young male Romans would strip...
[][1]Lorraine Kelly is hosting a charity tea at Blythswood Square Most people don’t need an excuse to eat out but a couple of 5pm members have come up with convincing reasons to put down the cookery book and make a reservation. In...
David Ramsden’s empire continues to expand as Seadogs opens on Edinburgh’s Rose Street on Friday. It joins The Dogs, (a) more dogs and Underdogs. Setting up shop in the former Great Grog premises, seadogs will concentrate on...
At the beginning of the year, we told you about the Glasgow Restaurateurs’ Association and their Celtic Connections Dinearound promotion. Over 45 GRA members offered three course meals with a glass of wine for as little as £14.95. As...
[][1]Mimi's Kitchen: a funky caff with a floor that doubles as a chessboard Following on from yesterday’s cocktail related blog, 5pm has unearthed a new cocktail bar in Edinburgh’s Stockbridge. It’s called The Raconteur...
[][1]'Hmm. Start of the working day. Time for a Rusty Nail' According to a marketing email which popped into my inbox, men are crying out for ‘proper cocktails’. Apparently, we have looked on jealously as Sex and the City...
How do you fancy eating at a Michelin star restaurant for less than a tenner? Sound good? There’s only one problem. You’ll have to go to Hong Kong. The Telegraph has a fun piece here about Tim Ho Wan restaurant whose prawn...
[][1]Fancy a tipple? Now that we are firmly in February, it is time to ditch the hairshirts, forget about those pesky New Year resolutions and start living life high on the hog again. Wine dinners are a good way to combine eating, drinking...
[][1]Arizona's Heart Attack Grill takes an unorthodox approach to marketing Does anyone else remember Death cigarettes? They featured a skull and crossbones as the company’s logo and, if memory serves, they were upfront about the...
[][1]Tommy was sensitive to criticism of his cooking As anyone who has seen Scorsese’s Goodfellas will know, then spaghetti and meatballs feature prominently on the wise guy menu. Famously, Paul Sorvino plays the jailed gangland...
Even Mr Creosote thought that the morel souffle may have been a course too far Gluttony has probably got a lot to do with it but I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of huge feasts and the more outlandish they are the better....
[][1]'Waddya mean four chicken? The foul was 86'd by 7pm!' Every time that I’ve interviewed a chef or restaurant owner for the blog’s Chewing the fat series, I’ve always asked if they have any printable slang that they...
[][1]The El Bulli brigade are getting a break There was much gnashing of teeth among the world’s more ambitious, not to mention wealthy foodies, yesterday as Ferran Adria of El Bulli announced that he was to shut his restaurant for...
