‘Hands in the air if you like West Coast oysters!’ This is a super busy weekend for food and drink festivals. We’ve already told you about Glasgow’s Juniper Festival, Cakefest in Stirling and the inaugural Taste...
Loch Fyne Hotel & Spa: promises a Fyne weekend. A weekend at Loch Fyne Hotel & Spa has long been a recipe for rest and relaxation with lots of great food and beautiful scenery. Come the weekend of Friday 7th/Saturday 8th October, you...
Jak O’Donnell, Shirley Spear and James Withers, Chief Executive of Scotland Food & Drink, check out the seafood on offer in Mallaig. The Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight gets underway this weekend and runs until Saturday 18th...
The Incredible Spice Men will be stirring things up in Dundee. We’re getting into peak harvest season which means that we are also getting into peak food fair season. There is a lot to choose from this weekend. In Dundee, the...
Andrew Fairlie at work in his restaurant at Gleneagles. The top entries and award winners from the 2017 Good Food Guide are revealed today and Restaurant Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles is the top rated Scottish restaurant. One of five...
Dr Adam Moore, based at Edinburgh University, ponders the links between personality and whisky preference at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Does your personality determine what flavours you prefer? And is there a way to predict the...
Say aye to several pies at the Arbroath Sea Fest’s pie eating competition. As the world’s largest arts festival continues to strut its stuff in the capital, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nothing much else...
The Boteco do Brasil crew never leave the party early. The Olympics launch in Rio today and, to mark the event, the 5pm Dining blog is going to sprint, or rather stroll, to our nearest Brazilian restaurant and order a large caipirinha...
Nathan Burrough and Karen Knowles of Bon Accord with their new range. All images © Stewart Attwood Photography 2016. Readers of a certain vintage may recall the Bon Accord trucks which used to trundle around Scotland delivering bottles of...
Dirty Harry – the Blondie tribute band – play the A-Club on Fri 5th August. The 5pm Dining blog is never short of gin news. However, for today’s blog we have decided to branch out and post something with a Scottish vodka...
Many large hotel chains like to centralise their menus. It makes it easier to maintain quality control and there are cost advantages to be had from centralised buying. The downside, particularly for the customer, is that every menu in...
Britannia Gin: globe trotting flavours. Scottish gin news is filling our inbox at a rate of knots. The latest ginfo comes from Edinburgh’s Summerhall Distillery. The makers of Pickering’s Gin have partnered with five-star...
From the launch of their core gin range last year to last month’s unveiling of their Scottish cider brandy, Strathearn Distillery always have something interesting up their sleeves. Their latest wheeze is to have developed distillery...
Last year’s Edinburgh Cake Fest has inspired bigger building projects. Image by Seth Mcanespie via Cake Fest Scotland. Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years you will be aware that recently there has been...
MasterChef: one of the factors driving change on the High Street. This 5pm Dining blogger will be on Radio Scotland’s Kitchen Café show this afternoon (starts at 1.30pm) to talk about the changing food landscape of the High Street...
Three Sisters Bake will be back in the Cookery Theatre. Pic: © Sandy Young 07970 268944 The 5pm Dining blog finds that the best antidote to Monday mornings is to look ahead to the next weekend. This weekend, there is food-themed fun to be...
