Stylish gantry at Wolf and Water in Leith. It is all go on Edinburgh’s bar and restaurant scene. Up in the Old Town, in the Quartermile development, Enzo has become No 8 Lister Square, Formerly an Italian restaurant and bar, it is...
Yellowfin tuna sashimi at Gamba. The first Coeliac Awareness Week gets underway today. The campaign kicks off a two year Is it coeliac disease? campaign. In Glasgow, Gamba seafood restaurant has long been recognised for its approach to...
Keeping it simple at Isleña If you want to top up your tan then Glasgow is probably not ahead of Ibiza, Cannes and Kos on your sunshine destination wish lists. That doesn’t mean that you can’t get a taste of the Mediterranean...
The courtyard by candle light. As the 5pm Dining blog scribbles this post, the skies are blue, the sun is shining and we might even be brave enough to go out in a T-shirt. Put another way, it feels as though summer is waiting in the...
Petra Wetzel outside WEST on the Corner. Saturday will see the official opening weekend of WEST bar and restaurant in Glasgow’s West End. West on the Corner, to give the new bar its full name, is on Woodlands Road in the premises...
The Whisky Stramash is about to be uncorked. If it’s May, it must be Whisky Month and in this Year of Food & Drink Scotland 2015, there is a lot going on. The Spirit of Speyside festival has just finished but there are plenty of...
How Colonnades will look when it opens in June. Over the last few summers, the gorgeous Signet Library in Edinburgh has teamed up with the caterer Heritage Portfolio to play host to the Pommery Champagne Café Bar – a welcome haven of...
Great British Bake Off finalist The 5pm Dining blog chortled at the news that the Great British Bake Off finalist, Luis Troyano, has teamed up with oven makers Bosch to launch a ‘menu demystifier’. The idea is that...
Firkin Gin & Walter Gregor – the first Scottish tonic water As the 5pm Dining blog has noted, several times, new gin brands are popping up all over Scotland. These are happy days for gin lovers. However, as the number...
Neil Forbes and friends outside Cafe St Honore. The List published the 22nd edition of their excellent Eating and Drinking Guide recently. As always, they hit listed the restaurants, cafes and bars which stood out in their...
Sugar Dumplin’ is aiming for a beach bar vibe. Zoinks! Two new restaurants have just opened in Glasgow and neither are burger bars. Hallelujah and pass the jerk sauce. On Hope Street, Fire in Babylon is all about West Indian food,...
The Street Art Gallery on Picardy Place. The Street bar, on Edinburgh’s Picardy Place, is opening a gallery showcasing famous street artists. From the 1st of May, The Street bar is set to sell original works by world-class artists,...
This 5pm Dining blogger was surprised to see the Slug and Lettuce brand rise again in Glasgow and Edinburgh. I had assumed, wrongly, that the brand had vanished at some point in the Noughties. The last one we were aware of was on St...
Divino Enoteca’s Head Chef Gavin Thompson (l) with Executive Group Chef Spencer Wilson (r). The 5pm Dining recently blog toddled along to Divino Enoteca in Edinburgh’s Old Town for an interview with Spencer Wilson. Spencer is...
Inside Osteria del Temp Perso. The 5pm Dining blog would like to say ‘Buongiorno’ to Osteria del Tempo Perso, a new Italian restaurant which is finding its feet in the former Tony Marconi site in the Italian Centre on...
The 22nd edition of The List Eating and Drinking Guide launched last night in the Scottish Cafe and Restaurant in the National Gallery of Scotland. As ever, it’s an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the restaurants, bars and...
