The National Galleries of Scotland announced this morning that Victor and Carina Contini, the team behind the Centotre and Zanzero restaurants, are to open The Scottish Café and Restaurant at the National Gallery on The Mound. Food from...
There is never a dull moment in Cucina In Edinburgh, Hotel Missoni’s Italian restaurant Cucina has launched two new menus designed to make the most of seasonal ingredients and offer some different price points from the a la...
It’s probably taken me about a year longer than anyone else to come around to the idea but I’m realising that Twitter is actually a pretty good way to review food and drink. The miniscule word count means you have to keep it...
How to state your case with beer Increasingly, their beers seem designed to court controversy rather than appeal to customers but I still have a sneaking admiration for the mavericks at Brewdog. The Scottish company makes some cracking...
The Two Fat Ladies have changed a bit According to a report in Variety Magazine, Gordon Ramsay is to star in his own stop animation cartoon series called At Your Service. Many would argue that the chef became a cartoon parody of himself...
A hot pot comes to the boil Hot pot restaurants seem to be springing up at a rate of knots in Edinburgh. Tian Tian recently opened on Gillespie Place in the premises that for years housed the French bistro Jacques. The new place is just...
Glasgow loves a curry but does it have the capacity to swallow another new Indian restaurant? The owners of the just opened Urban Pind on Candleriggs must hope so. I stumbled across the place last night while contemplating a slice of...
Firing up the stove at Sapporo Teppanyaki We have already written about Glasgow’s new Sapporo Teppanyaki restaurant here. It opened last night on the corner of Ingram Street and the High Street with Japanese drummers and...
James Martin: loves veg, less keen on cyclists The BBC’s Saturday Kitchen might prove more entertaining than usual this weekend when Nick Nairn guests on the show presented by James Martin. I interviewed them both this week. Martin...
Stock up your cheese at the French Market The eighth Merchant City Festival gets underway tomorrow and, as well as more arts events than you can shake a plectrum at, there is also plenty on offer for those of us whose stomach comes high on...
The blog met up with Glasgow restaurateur Mario Romano last week and got an impromptu tour of his imminent Mediterraneo restaurant. Taking shape on Ingram Street, the 200 cover restaurant is bound to make ripples when it splashes down on...
Mitch Omer's cookbook outlines his recipes I just stumbled across this website for a Minneapolis restaurant called Hell’s Kitchen. It’s owned and run by two chefs, Steve Meyer and Mitch Omer. The latter has just written a new...
After eight years at the helm of Edinburgh’s La Garrigue, Jean-Michel Gauffre has branched out and opened L’artichaut in the Eyre Place site formerly occupied by Ducks. A fine dining vegetarian restaurant, the new project has been a...
Whether beans on toast is beyond you or you need to brush up on your advanced sugarcraft, a new Edinburgh cook school aims to teach cooks of all levels how to improve their kitchen skills. Fiona Burrell, a former principal of Leiths cook...
The bread at the Lego Last Supper was fairly tough After Keith Floyd’s death earlier this week, it was revealed that his final meal included oysters, partridge, champagne and fine wine. He went out the way he would have wanted seems...
The new restaurant action is all taking place in Glasgow at the moment. This week, Monir Mohammed, the man behind the Mother India group of restaurants, unveiled his latest baby. Following in the footsteps of his Dining In deli and...
