Glasgow’s GoGrill: part of GoGlasgow Urban Hotel. Readers with absurdly long memories, not to mention far too much time on their hands, may recall that, back in February, the 5pm Dining blog mentioned The Killer Restaurant, a new...
Das Horn: what every Dad wants. Perhaps. Obviously, the best way to thank your old man this Father’s Day is to take him out for a slap-up meal accompanied a nice bottle of wine and then crown the occasion with a rare 21-year-old...
Graze on street food at Crail Food Festival. Many lucky whisky lovers will already be on Islay for this year’s Islay Festival of Malt and Music. Ceilidhs, concerts and distillery open days all mean that the weekend will go with a...
Neil Forbes outside Cafe St Honore. Slow Food Week gets underway next week. It is designed to celebrate the Slow Food movement, an international organisation whose aims are to promote food which is good, clean and fair for everyone. There...
The dinner table: a potential minefield. The 5pm Dining blog enjoyed a recent survey from the SUBWAY® brand which found, among other problems, was that one in five Brits was embarrassed by their partners when eating out. The research...
Black Dove Dining is about to take flight in Shawlands. The Hug and Pint, Black Dove, Bar Soba, The Bowery and Mango are all getting ready to welcome customers in Glasgow. It may be a bank holiday Monday but Glasgow’s restaurateurs...
Schiehallion with a pickled cucumber and crab salad with tempura oyster and dragon fruit salad at The Riparian Rooms. It often seems as though wine has always been the go-to guy for pairing with food. In fact, in the UK anyway,...
Thirsty work at OX184. The 5pm Dining blog was at the official opening of OX184 on Edinburgh’s Cowgate last night. We had blogged about it when it first opened back in March but last night was the first time that we have seen the...
Pickled Ginger: bringing sushi to Finnieston. The 5pm Dining blog is delighted to welcome Pickled Ginger to the 5pm fold. The Finnieston restaurant opened on St Vincent Street a couple of weeks back and seems to be going great...
The courtyard at The Three Sisters will be jumping this weekend. On Monday, we told you about this weekend’s fab-sounding Mhor Festival in rural Perthshire. Happily for confirmed city dwellers who get slightly anxious at the thought...
From L to R: Rae-Yen Song, Fran Caballero, Paul Flynn, Brady, Matthew Bainbridge and Isabella Widger. This 5pm Dining blog writer has often been inspired by beer. Unfortunately, in the cold light of day, my beer-fuelled bright ideas from...
Just another day on the Monachyle Mhor farm. Monday mornings can be trying. Here at the 5pm Dining blog, we try to sleep through them. When pesky deadlines mean that’s not possible, we keep our spirits up by fantasising that it is...
It goes without saying that the 5pm Dining blog is perfectly happy to quaff beer at any time of year. However, there is something especially magical about drinking a cool beer on a hot day. We’re not sure about high temperatures but...
The 5pm Dining blog was at Scotch whisky bar in The Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh last night for the launch of a new City Edition bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label. The Edinburgh Edition bottle and its stylish packaging are decorated...
The sun is out and so is the BBQ at One Square. Hello sunshine! Lovely to see_ _you again, old chum. Folding up the extra thick woolly jumpers is always a happy time of year but slipping into your summer wardrobe (I don’t really...
Go Greek at the Baby Grand on Sunday 24th May. The 5pm Dining blog is already dreaming of our summer hols. Sand between our toes; sun on our back and the smell of simply cooked seafood drifting over from the barbie. If we close our eyes,...
