Portavadie Marina on the banks of Loch Fyne has all the ingredients for a perfect Scottish break: gorgeous scenery, stylish and cosy accommodation and the best of local seasonal food. We recently visited Portavadie and were bowled over by...
The Adamson’s Managing Director, Julie Lewis, gives her diagnosis on The Physician. In St Andrews, the award-winning Adamson restaurant on South Street has just launched its adjacent Adamson Bar. At one point, the building was used...
At the risk of sounding like the dreaded h word, I drank gin _before _it was cool. My love affair with gin began about ten years ago when I was looking for for a healthy alcohol (well, as healthy as alcohol can be) that didn’t contain...
From left to right: volunteer Elizabeth Hannah, Paula Daly, Hugh Taylor, Derek Marshall, Karen Burston at Troon docks. Congratulations are due to Glasgow seafood restaurant Gamba and their customers. Together they have raised over four and...
Yes Chef? helps young people into the catering trade. Action for Children Scotland is hosting Yes Chef! – a fun charity event at the Grand Central Hotel on Friday 1st May. Their Moving On Project helps young people find careers in...
OX184: don’t spill his pint. A quick shout out to OX184 – the latest opening from Fuller Thomson, the team behind the rather fine Red Squirrel, Southern and Holyrood 9A. Their latest bar opens on the Cowgate tonight with a...
Just a quick mention of the fifth Budding Chefs – the annual exchange programme in which young Scottish and French chefs visit each other’s home countries and learn about each other’s national produce and cooking...
Macsween’s British beef and haggis burger: no more beef/haggis dilemmas. These are exciting times for Macsween as the family-run company expand their product range beyond their existing haggis and black pudding options. From today,...
‘You can call me Mr Wagyu.’ Scotland may have given the world Aberdeen Angus cattle but it’s Scottish-reared Wagyu beef that is currently making the biggest splash in foodie circles. Originating in the Kobe district of...
The Pompadour by Galvin: setting for the first Societea event. This 5pm Dining blog scribbler has been away on his hols for the last couple of weeks so we appreciate that we have left this post a little late. However, it’s a doozie so...
We’re not packing away our mittens quite just yet but the 5pm Dining blog reckons that winter is on the way out. And that means that the year’s various food festivals will be cranking into life fairly sharpish. One of the first out of...
Dreaming of drams? Taking place from the 30th of April to the 4th of May, the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival continues to grow at a fair old pace. Held annually during the first long weekend in May, the Spirit of Speyside Whisky...
As March gets underway, this seems a suitable time for the 5pm Dining blog to lick its lips and look forward to some of 2015’s beer festivals. May’s party with Summerhall and Barney’s Beer is one of several beer festivals over...
Brewdog’s marketing has rarely been subtle. These are exciting times to be making beer in Scotland. The exact figure changes all the time but there seems to be more than 80 commercial breweries currently operating in Scotland. These...
Spink’s Smokies are among the regional delicacies mentioned. If you have ever wondered what is the best way to cut cheese; had a hankering for Smokie ice cream or pondered the favourite food of Shetland’s Trow troll then you should...
Rhubarb will soon be in the shops. Pic via [Wikipedia][1]. The 5pm Dining blog is bored with winter. Thunder snow was cute at first but we have grown tired of its novelty and we are now yawning at the idea of being weather...
