Taste ‘n’ tease
A blind wine teasing may sound like a scene from 9 and a ½ Weeks but it’s actually a slightly new take on wine tasting being tested by Edinburgh’s Tapa bar. Run by a veteran of Edinburgh’s tapas restaurants, it’s...
A blind wine teasing may sound like a scene from 9 and a ½ Weeks but it’s actually a slightly new take on wine tasting being tested by Edinburgh’s Tapa bar. Run by a veteran of Edinburgh’s tapas restaurants, it’s...
Men, look away now. There is nothing to see here so just move along. Or cut to the bottom of the entry. All clear? Bloke-free zone? OK. Afternoon tea is already pretty girly but the Exchange Bar in Edinburgh’s Sheraton...
The Glasgow Subway Festival is returning this weekend and, as well as on train cabaret performances, petting zoos and an underground fairground, there are lots of food related frolics going down. The Scotland Street...
Paul Kitching opened 21212, his keenly waited for restaurant in Edinburgh last night. Set in a four storey, Georgian townhouse, the dining room looks on to the open kitchen where the chef and his eight-strong brigade assemble...
If you have an interest in Glasgow’s many splendid curry restaurants than you might like this blog. Wittily written, it details the adventures of an intrepid band of Glaswegian curry hounds as they trough their way around the...
The Central Belt’s ever active curry merchants means that Indian food gets regular mentions in this blog. But it’s not just us. There is something so thought-provoking about the stuff that seldom a week goes by without a new curry...
It’s a busy old time of year for national food weeks. No doubt most people are still recovering from last week’s double whammy of excitement when the bunting was being hung not just for British Sandwich Week but also National...
Just over a year after David Ramsden opened The Dogs on Edinburgh’s Hanover Street, the colourful restaurateur has followed it up with (a) more Dogs, an Italian offshoot that opens today. The former owner of fitzhenry and rogue...
West Lothian has a new fine dining restaurant called the Water Lily. It is part of The Vu complex which, as the name suggests, enjoys stunning vistas across the Ballencrieff reservoir by Bathgate. The Vu operates as a wedding...
The financial climate means that many restaurants are controlling costs by being inventive with cheaper cuts of meat. Supermarkets are reporting that sales of offal are booming. The brawn, hearts and livers which fed older generations are...
There are some restaurateurs that become part of a city’s eating out fabric. They don’t necessarily have the profile of celeb chefs but they have a long and widespread effect on the city’s restaurant scene. In Edinburgh,...
A friend who went to a very posh public school claims that the most useful thing he learned there was how to make a decent gin and tonic. On a day to day basis, I can see how that would come in handy more often than knowing...
The Guardian recently ran a feature where they asked chefs in the public eye what their guilty food pleasures were. It makes for interesting reading. Who would have thought that Gordon Ramsay protege Angela Hartnett had a...
This YouTube clip of a man complaining about his pizza to a supermarket help line may well be a spoof. For comedy’s sake, I hope it is real although it does have worrying implications for the British gene pool. ...
Many of us eaten in basement restaurants that had more in common with a dungeon than a dining room but, unless your CV lists a stint spent at Her Majesty’s pleasure, then few of us have eaten in an actual prison. That could change after...
Tesco’s Enjoy the Taste of Scotland food fair takes place in Glasgow’s George Square this weekend. A free to enter event which showcases the Scottish producers used by the giant supermarket, it attracted 21,000 people last year. ...