[][1]Chris Broomfield, Charan Gill and Des Clarke get the giggles at Slumdog Restaurateurs are always looking for new ways to put bums on seats and Charan Gill, owner of the Slumdog Bar and Kitchen, is no different. At his new restaurant...
It’s Burns Night and Scotland’s haggis makers must feel like Santa on Christmas Day. The busiest part of the year is over and they can put their feet up, safe in the knowledge that they won’t have to stuff another...
[][1]The Atlantic Fast Food Chippy: Championi! For the third year in a row, a Scottish chip shop has won the UK Fish & Chip Shop of the Year competition, organised by Seafish, the authority on seafood. The Atlantic Fast Food chippy in...
[][1]The top brass of Aberdeen's Malmaison and The Scotch Malt Whisky Society toast a tie-up While many of us may wish that we could hibernate our way through January, the restaurant trade has been a hive of activity. Among the more...
[][1]Jamie Oliver: 'Glasgow? Wicked, yeah. Lovely jubbly' Hats off to The Herald who, at least as far as I can see, scooped everyone with today’s story about Jamie Oliver opening a branch of Jamie’s Italian in the former GPO on...
I’ve only seen the web edition so don’t know if this article on Scotch pies was only printed in Metro south of the border. Despite the mighty pie being referred to as a ‘wee tartlet’, it’s all quite fun. The...
[][1]Miguel's: great for discerning Rum Baba lovers I’ve been lapping up this RetroDundee blog from a Dundonian who has moved down south. He has recently posted a strand looking at the bars and restaurants of Dundee in the Eighties....
We told you a couple of weeks back that the Queen of Sheba, a new Ethiopian restaurant, was opening on Glasgow’s St George’s Road but I couldn’t dig up any more info. Fortunately, The Herald’s Ron MacKenna has been...
[][1]This could be you if you play Restaurant Empire Around New Year, the 5pm blog looked back at the trends which have shaped food culture over the last decade. We noted that back in 2000, the thought of going to a food festival to watch...
According to a psychologist at Cardiff University, today is the most depressing day of the year. Christmas credit card bills, short daylight hours and broken New Year resolutions all combine to make this the most miserable day in 2010....
[][1]Shetland fiddler Jenna Reid joins Elaine Dickie of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau and David Maguire of Glasgow Restauranteurs Association at L'Ariosto on Mitchell Street, Glasgow. Celtic Connections music festival launched at the...
What weighs 7kg, comes with its own DNA certificate of authenticity and costs £1800? Yes, that’s right, it’s a leg of ham. But this isn’t any old leg of ham. It’s not even Markies ham. In fact, this ham is posh...
Patrick Bardoulet manning the pass Patrick Bardoulet is the chef owner of The Horseshoe Inn at Eddlestone near Peebles. A restaurant with rooms and a bar bistro, The Horseshoe has attracted plenty of plaudits including three AA rosettes...
Nick Nairn in his new Kailyard restaurant So far, January has not been an altogether happy month for the restaurant trade. Abstract in Edinburgh didn’t re-open after the New Year break although its sister operations in Inverness...
The Michelin Man has spoken and Scotland is looking starry The Michelin Guide may not come out until Tuesday but the fat tyre man has released news of who is getting what star. Scotland has done well. Kinloch Lodge on Skye,...
Just a quickie link to a nice blog on the Spectator website. In Cucina Povera, Frank Armstrong takes a carving knife to the idea that the notion of peasant food is somehow more authentic than any other fad. It’s hair-curlingly...
