Tony Reeman Clark among the casks at Strathearn Distillery. Over the next few days, many of us will be travelling to spend Christmas with friends and family. Happily, one of Scotland’s drink producers has been hard at work...
Revolucion de Cuba: bringing the fiesta to the city centre. The 5pm Dining blog is beginning to wind down for Christmas but not before we’ve polished off the last of the new openings in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Last weekend saw the...
The Taynuilt: Etive Restaurant with Rooms will launch in Argyll in January. Most of us will be looking forward to putting our feet up over the next ten days or so. No need to weep for them but many of the nation’s restaurateurs are...
Tea and gin: the perfect mix. Who knew? Here at the 5pm Dining blog, we have Scottish gin running through our veins. At this time of year, we sometimes ponder if Scottish gin is all that is running our veins. Even so, we would think twice...
Phew! There will be sprouts for Christmas. Pic from [Love Your Greens][1]. As far as the 5pm Dining blog is concerned, one of the greatest pleasures of the festive season is seeing how the newspapers tackle Christmas food stories. In...
Nights away in interesting hotels make us happy. Eating good food also makes us happy. But what if we combined these two pleasures? Could we handle that much enjoyment? There is only one way to find out. Here are five fun getaways which...
SeaWolf: ahead of the pack. Unless you have been under a rock for the last couple of years, you will know that Scottish gin has been booming. Is there room for any other drinks categories? These people think so: Just launched, SeaWolf is...
Happily, there are no signs of the gin running dry at the new beGIN bar in Glasgow. Pic: Stuart Wallace Don’t panic but the price of your G ‘n’ T may be about to rise steeply due to a perfect storm of bad weather, rising...
There is always one. In fact, there is usually a few of them. Nice people. Decent. You like them. You may even be related to them. It’s just that they are almost impossible to buy a gift for. Well, stop tearing your hair out. Here...
Cairn O’Mohr winery owners, Ron and Judith Gillies. Photo: Stewart Attwood Whisky, gin, craft beers and even Irn Bru may claim most of the headlines when it comes to drinks made in Scotland. However, for the last three decades, Ron...
Some things are better in a crowd and Christmas is one of them. Tuck into our list of ten restaurants in Edinburgh and Glasgow which can happily accommodate large numbers of revellers. The Auditorium at Ghillie Dhu is...
Old Fashioned made with Wild Turkey Bourbon: a classic cocktail. This 5pm Dining contributor has never got into the habit of celebrating Thanksgiving Day. We get more than enough turkey at Christmas. However, we will happily make an...
A neat range of pocket-sized recipe books, Birlinn’s collection of Food Bibles has covered Scottish ingredients ranging from haggis to berries to oats. The latest to join the fun is marmalade. The Three Chimneys Marmalade Bible is...
The 5pm Dining blog is partial to the odd liquid sharpener every now and then and we’ve been lucky enough to write about lots of pretty special drinks. But it’s not all about 50 year-old whiskies and $25,000 rums. Given the...
The authorities have closed down Errington Cheese in Lanarkshire, the small, highly respected family-run company that pioneered raw milk cheesemaking in Scotland. It makes Lanark & Dunsyre Blue, Corra Linn, and other cheeses. Food...
Fungi: neither plant nor animal. Today’s 5pm Dining blog comes to you from West Lothian where your blogger recently went on a fungi foraging trip with the aptly named Monica Wilde. Monica runs Napiers the Herbalists. She is also a...
