What is in the fridge at home? NB:[/su_youtube] In the last of our blogs covering the pop-ups appearing at the Glasgow Restaurant Festival Spiegeltent, we chatted to Nik Biok, Executive Chef at the Bar Soba group of...
Glasgow’s city centre is seldom quiet when it comes to new openings. The suburbs and outlying commuter towns don’t do too badly either. Spread over Bishopbriggs, Milngavie and Lenzie, The R Group already operate Oregano, The Eagle Lodge,...
Sunil Thakur, Hans Raj Ram, CEO of Goldstar Chefs and Peter Janampally. Ahhhh, Friday! The sweetest day of the week. But how to celebrate the end of the week’s wage slavery and the beginning of the glorious weekend? Anyone fancy a...
Craig Wood is chef patron of The Wee Restaurants in Edinburgh and North Queensferry. The Edinburgh branch of The Wee Restaurant is welcoming its first guests to its new Frederick Street premises today. The original Wee Restaurant opened...
Continuing our series of blogs covering pop-ups appearing at the Glasgow Restaurant Festival Spiegeltent, we nipped up to Kelvindale to see Nico Simeone of 111 by Nico. Nico launched his new restaurant last September and rapidly picked...
Cacao beans in a cacao pod. Pic: [Aude via Wiki][1]. Last night, this 5pm Dining blog writer was at a chocolate-themed event as part of Edinburgh International Science Festival (check their GastroFest strand). I was there for the...
Continuing our series of blogs covering pop-ups at the Glasgow Restaurant Festival Spiegeltent, we turn our attention to Red Onion, the West Campbell Street restaurant of chef patron John Quigley. Previously, John combined rock...
Gavin Cuthbertson: Commercial Director at Two Fat Ladies. Continuing our series of blogs covering pop-ups at the Glasgow Restaurant Festival Spiegeltent, we turn our attention to the multi-award winning Two Fat Ladies group of...
Harvesting Jersey Royals by hand. The 5pm Dining blog tends to focus on ingredients from Scotland’s natural larder but not to the exclusion of everything else. Especially when everything else includes seasonal goodies such as Jersey...
Gamba opened in 1998 and has been one of Glasgow’s most highly regarded seafood restaurants ever since. As part of the current Glasgow Restaurant Festival, Gamba is teaming up with steak connoisseurs Porter & Rye to provide a...
The mighty Santorini pizza. Available as a gluten-free option at Tutto Matto. Eating out while eating gluten-free is not always straightforward; gluten-free restaurants can be hard to find. Most chefs will do their very best to accommodate...
If you are reading this blog then you almost certainly know that Scotland has some of the best food in the world. We produce and harvest some of the finest seafood, game and beef available anywhere. Over the last 20 or so years, we have...
Craig Wood is launching a second branch of The Wee Restaurant in Edinburgh city centre. Want to try some new Edinburgh bars and restaurants? We got ’em. Say ‘Howdie’ to Jessie Mays, Sasso, The Wee Restaurant and Badger...
Sharpen your knife and your appetite. Tomorrow, the first ever city-wide Glasgow Restaurant Festival gets underway for four weeks of unique dining experiences across the city, all dished up by Glasgow’s best chefs and favourite...
It is not often that restaurateurs are compared to delicate, fragrant, little flowers. In the experience of the 5pm Dining blog, almost none of them could accurately be described as shy and retiring wallflowers. However, in much the same...
The beef in Belted’s burgers comes from the family farm in Dumfries and Galloway. Last weekend saw the launch of Belted, a new burger restaurant on Edinburgh’s Frederick Street. Defining itself as ‘high end casual...
