David Thomson of Makar Gin; Oyster Bar Head Chef, Jamie Nicholson and Virginia Sumsion, founder of Loch Fyne Food Festival. Pic: Stewart Attwood The weather is looking fantastic for this weekend’s Loch Fyne Food Fair. Billed as...
Tom Kitchin gets the Yer Bens in at Waitrose. Hard to imagine now but there was a time when having their name over the door of their own restaurant was the ultimate aspiration for many chefs. These days, that is just the beginning....
Summerhouse Drinks make a range of softies using all natural ingredients. The 5pm Dining blog is always ready sacrifice itself for you, our dear readers. Last night we bade farewell to the sofa and spent a gruelling couple of hours trying...
To OX184 which last night played host to the launch party for the 23rd annual edition of The List Eating and Drinking Guide. Focusing on Glasgow and Edinburgh, the 194 page guide covers slightly fewer than a thousand restaurants, bars,...
Glasgow’s city centre is seldom quiet when it comes to new openings. The suburbs and outlying commuter towns don’t do too badly either. Spread over Bishopbriggs, Milngavie and Lenzie, The R Group already operate Oregano, The Eagle Lodge,...
Cacao beans in a cacao pod. Pic: [Aude via Wiki][1]. Last night, this 5pm Dining blog writer was at a chocolate-themed event as part of Edinburgh International Science Festival (check their GastroFest strand). I was there for the...
Bonjour mes amis, Today’s 5pm Dining blog is going to have a distinct Gallic flavour as we celebrate the second Goût de France day. Initiated last year by the chef Alain Ducasse and the French ministry of Foreign Affairs and...
Jamie Scott in his new kitchen. Pic: Alan Richardson Dundee, Pix-AR.co.uk Monday morning, the start of a new week and the perfect time for a blog on a new restaurant. Opened last week, The Newport Restaurant is the first solo venture from...
Galloway Wild Foods will be foraging for wild cocktail ingredients at Springfest. Following on from yesterday’s blog, here are a few more Scottish food and drink festivals which are popping up on the horizon. After a successful...
At the time of writing, the rain lashing against the window makes the thought of ever venturing outside again seem distinctly uninviting. However, if previous years are anything to go by, winter won’t last forever and, when it...
North Hop Edinburgh Launch at The Assembly Rooms. From top left clockwise – James Porteous from Electric Spirit Co., Kirsty Dunsmore from Edinburgh Beer Factory, Adam Blair from El Cartel Casera Mexicana and Flora Manson (musician)...
The bar at Cairn O’Mount. There is an argument that Scotland doesn’t really do country pubs. Or at least not with the same gusto as our neighbours south of the border. One venue that could make the counter argument is the...
CUE: it’s all about the barbecue. To the far north. Or at least as far north as Aberdeen. The Granite City’s chefs and bar owners have been busy. Of most interest to 5pm Dining is the news that The Courtyard Restaurant on...
Yogurt: a food with a long history but surprisingly rare in the Seventies. Pic via [Wiki][1]. The government has just released the latest update on its National Food Survey. First established in 1940, the survey was set up to monitor what...
Marmite: surprisingly popular in Madrid. The 5pm Dining blog was tickled to read that Spain has an increasingly ravenous appetite for British food and drink. We’ve long known that the Spanish and the French are head over heels for...
Craft beer, cocktails, street food and live music are on the menu as North Hop hits the road. Less than two years since the first North Hop festival took place in Inverness, the organisers are taking their craft beer hooley on the road...
