Kids can get hands-on at Edinburgh Restaurant Festival. Forks ready! The second Edinburgh Restaurant Festival programme has just been announced. Over ten days (8th-18th October), the various events will offer plenty for food lovers to...
It’s all go on Edinburgh’s George Street. In August, Saltire Taverns sold Le Monde to Glendola Leisure Group, the firm which has Waxy O’Connor’s, Alston Bar & Beef and Horton’s in Glasgow. On the other side of the road, eh2...
Thomas of Chaophraya gets busy with his Crouching Gin Hidden Pineapple cocktail. It may be Monday morning but the 5pm Dining blog is already stirring up October’s fun. If you like cocktails then you may wish to get the diary out for...
Mark Fraser and Michael Spink: the team behind Chop House Leith. Friday – the sweetest day of the working week. And if you’re looking for new places for a small libation, here is a rundown of recently opened and soon to launch...
Bands, whisky and West Coast produce keep the crowds smiling at BOWfest. The runaway success of last weekend’s Let’s Eat Glasgow! event helped prove that there is a huge appetite for festivals with local produce at their...
The 5pm Dining blog nearly dropped its breakfast bacon butty when we received the news that beef dripping from James Whelan Butchers of Clonmel in Co. Tipperary, Ireland had been crowned the Great Taste Supreme Champion 2015. To put this...
Local produce is a key feature of Firebrick Brasserie’s menus. Firebrick Brasserie is a new family-friendly bistro in Lauder. David Haetzman and Amanda Jordan, the former head chef and pastry chef at Kyloe in Edinburgh, are behind...
The SoHo Mighty Zeppelin Burger Challenge is not for the faint of heart. The splendid SoHo on Miller Street has introduced a new food challenge. The SoHo Mighty Zeppelin Burger Challenge features a double burger with three cheeses;...
Bye bye festival. You were fun but it couldn’t last forever. All those late nights were taking their toll. Happily, there are plenty of more sedate pleasures to be enjoyed in the capital over the next few months. Promising to...
Franklin and Sloane: a new G1 venture in Kilmarnock. As ever, there are lots of new places springing into life all over the Central Belt. We hear that the G1 Group plans to double the size of its estate to around a hundred outlets over...
Jamie Scott, winner of MasterChef The Professionals will be demoing at the show. Pic Flare Photography. The harvest is getting underway which means that we’re coming up to peak time for flower and veg shows. As always, Dundee Flower...
Food-based frolics are easily found around Scotland this weekend. In Finnieston’s SWG3, the inaugural Let’s Eat Glasgow! is taking place. Styled as ‘Scotland’s first truly indigenous restaurant festival and pop-up market’, it is a...
The Drygate team get ready to welcome Craft Beer Rising. Monday morning, my old friend. Here we are again, eh? Fortunately, there is light at the end of the working week. Looking forward to Friday, there is much to smile about. In fact,...
Connage Highland Dairy gets to the heart of Scottish cheese. If you have watched the news over the last fortnight or so, you will know that many dairy farmers are feeling the squeeze. They are being paid less than it costs to produce the...
The crustacea bar at Galvin Brasserie de Luxe Pic: Paul Johnston at Copper Mango Thanks to shows such as MasterChef, most of us now have a fair idea of what life can be like in a professional kitchen. And, again for most of us, getting a...
Calm before the storm: the dance floor at Reina. Clubbing is a distant and probably unreliable memory for this 5pm Dining blog scribbler; although we did manage an awkward little shuffle at last night’s excellent FFS concert. Since...
