Duck with roasted salsify and pumpkin purée at Seasons. The 5pm Dining blog had an interesting meal this weekend when we swung into Seasons, a new restaurant on Edinburgh’s Broughton Street. Just launched last week, the new place is...
Chequers Cocktail House: making weekends better. Ah Friday, the happiest of all days. The working week is pretty much done and dusted while the infinite possibilities of the weekend beckon. For many, the good times will start to roll with...
Tutto Matto as it prepared to open. Edinburgh’s restaurateurs are busier than Santa’s elves as Tutto Matto, Passorn Brasserie and Wee Buddha gear up for the festive rush. In Edinburgh, there is a flurry of activity as people...
Readers who are lucky (unlucky?) enough remember the Eighties may recall the song The Honeythief by the band Hipsway. It got to Number 17 in the charts – no mean feat back in 1986. It was sung by Glasgow lad Grahame Skinner...
Winter warmer with Whisky Enlightenment tour. Hmmm, let’s see. ‘Monster’ Brussels sprouts are in the news; the Christmas lights are up and 5pm Christmas Gifts is well underway. Yup, the festive season is officially in...
Scotch Beef steak and mushroom pie: guaranteed cockle warmer. Monday morning after a wet weekend. And, judging from the weather forecast, it ain’t going to brighten up anytime soon. Do we feel down? Hell, no! This sort of weather...
The bar at Rogano. Fancy a birthday toast? As Rogano celebrates its 80th birthday, the 5pm Dining blog had a chat with the bar and restaurant manager Chris Burns about the enduring appeal of this Glasgow institution. And it certainly is...
Next week, we will have a blog post on the new Whisky Enlightenment Tour which The Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh is launching. However, for this 5pm Dining blog, we are going to stick with whisky but make tracks, perhaps...
Adam Newth: chef patron at The Tayberry. To Dundee. Or to be more accurate, the seaside suburb of Broughty Ferry – an old haunt of this 5pm Dining blog scribe. If Dundee was once known as the home of jute, jam and journalism, things...
The Atlantic Bar and Brasserie is inspired by the 1938 Empire Exhibition. All being well, the Atlantic Bar and Brasserie should open its doors to the public on Glasgow’s St Vincent Place today. It sits on the lower ground floor at...
Get ready to rumble as Sauchie Beer Hall; The Atlantic Bar and Brasserie, Po Boyz and The Tayberry launch. A few days back, just after the launch of the Bavaria Brauhaus, the 5pm Dining blog was scratching its noggin and wondering why...
Arisaig is in Glasgow’s Merchant Square. If you can’t treat yourself in the run-up to Christmas then when can you? Here at the 5pm Dining blog, we are firm believers in treating ourselves all year round. Which may well explain...
DINE has a stunning interior which includes an apple tree growing in the centre of the room. Last night saw the launch of DINE with Stuart Muir, a new brasserie and Champagne lounge in Saltire Court next to the Traverse Theatre. The new...
L’escargot bleu and blanc are celebrating Le Beaujolais nouveau. The 5pm Dining blog has always enjoyed the more inventive ways in which the restaurant industry tries to get bums on seats. From pushing pink Champagne on St...
Bar and booths in the Cotton Club. If you think that you have a working relationship with Lady Luck, you may wish to be at Glasgow’s Corinthian Club this Friday as they unveil their new Cotton Club casino. Jazz-era Harlem The new...
Actor George Clooney signs the guest book at The George Hotel. Pic: Stephen McCranor of Frame PR. George Clooney’s visit to Edinburgh is the gift that keeps on giving in so many ways. The Hollywood A-lister stayed in the...
