Celtic Connections launched last night with a fantastic concert at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. From now until the end of January, Glasgow will be filled with musicians from all over the world giving concerts everywhere from Oran Mor to...
Tony Singh is fishing for success with his new restaurant, Tasty. According to the chef and TV personality Tony Singh, ‘opening a new restaurant is one of the most exciting things you can do in your life. It is up there with getting...
Fancy dress, fun and a glass of Friulano at the Yorkshire Wineathlon. Pic from Wineathlon. A friend of the 5pm Dining blog recently celebrate his 50th birthday party. Like many a bloke of a similar vintage, his middle age crisis has...
Ally Burns tackles VDeep’s haggis naan. Pic: Toby Williams, Tel: 07920841392. Yesterday, the 5pm Dining blog passed on some hints and tips on how to host a Burns Night. It was all straight forward, sensible stuff. Unlike...
Burns Night is just a couple of weeks away and the 5pm Dining blog is already being inundated with hints and tips on how to hold the perfect Burns Supper as well as news on special Burns events. An easy way celebrate the Bard’s work...
Rigatoni’s by the King’s Theatre is light and bright. Rigatoni’s, the Italian trattoria which sits opposite the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh’s Southside, has launched a second branch in Tollcross. The new...
The Bloody Mary short rib at SMOAK. We suspect that it may have had something to do with December’s heroic gin intake but the 5pm Dining blog missed a handful of new Glasgow openings in the run up to Christmas. We could make a lame...
Horses: when in Kyrgyzstan, don’t say ‘Sausages’ when taking a photo. Pic from by Mikel Ortega from Errenteria, Basque Country, Spain, with a retouche by Richard Bartz via Wikipedia. News events this week have underlined...
Monboddo’s cocktail staff always offer a warm welcome. Bread Street Brasserie, the restaurant at DoubleTree by Hilton Edinburgh City Centre Hotel, is getting the year off to a flying start. Tomorrow evening will see the first of...
The Hairy Bikers keep it simple with this recipe. While the 5pm Dining blog would like to wish all our readers a tasty New Year, we are aware that the early part of January is seldom a time of great culinary indulgence. After two weeks of...
The 5pm Dining blog is going to knock off for 2015 with this post. We hope all our readers have a tremendous Hogmanay and a tasty 2016. Here are some new Glasgow places to look forward to over the next few months. Prep Fitness Kitchen is...
Spiralisers: the stormtroopers of the eat clean movement. Continuing on from yesterday’s food trend predictions, here are a few more suggestions for how our eating habits might alter over the course of 2016. As before, we have...
As we mentioned yesterday, the 5pm Dining blog has not always, in fact, has not ever had much success in predicting food trends. Happily, there are plenty of people out there whose crystal balls deliver rather more clarity than ours. So...
2015 was not the best year for anyone working in sugar pr. Pic: Fritzs Wiki The 5pm Dining blog has a long and unhappy history of predicting future food trends. In particular, our 2010 assertion that tapas were on the way out springs to...
Atlantic Brasserie: one of Glasgow’s new openings in 2015. After the excitement of the Commonwealth Games in 2014 – and all the new restaurants which were launched to coincide with the Games – 2015 seemed relatively...
Piper, John Mulhearn and guitarist, Findlay Napier, are joined by brewer Jake Griffin. From discussing hop types to debating the merits of fining or not fining, craft brewing presents many an opportunity for enjoyable, chin-stroking...
