Loving Food truck's Stirling launch
[][1]Keeping on truckin’ with Loving Food Looking with envy at the food truck scene in London and San Francisco, the 5pm Restaurant blog has often wished that more people would kick start something similar in...
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Scottish Restaurant Awards 2013 Finalists
[][1]Scottish restaurant award finalists 2013 The finalists of the Scottish Restaurant Awards 2013 have now been announced and there’s a great mix of restaurants across Scotland as well as some 5pm favourites! I’m sure many...
Chewin' the Fat with Steven Tweedie
[][1]Steven Tweedie: Head Chef at Glasgow’s Arisaig The latest instalment of the 5pm Blog’s Chewin’ the Fat chef interviews is with Steven Tweedie, Head Chef at Arisaig in Glasgow’s Merchant Square. A popular spot with 5pm customers,...
Get your chilli on
Reckon you got what it takes to make a kick-ass chilli? Well, you may want to sign up for Glasgow’s first ever Chilli Con Carnival. The chilli competition takes place in Ad Lib Merchant City on Saturday 5th May – also known as Cinco de...
Buffets go global
[][1]The world is your oyster at Cook and Indi’s World Buffet The 5pm Restaurants blog has already mentioned the growing popularity of global buffet restaurants. In the last few months, The World in Musselburgh and Cosmo in Aberdeen...
Hard Rock Edinburgh hits fifteen
Rita Gilligan MBE: she’s served more rock stars than most of us have had hot dinners The Hard Rock Cafe in Edinburgh celebrated its fifteenth birthday party last week. The George Street venue threw an almighty bash which featured the...
Chasni chuckles
Hardeep Singh Kohli will be cooking up the comedy Cafe India in Glasgow’s Merchant City is firing on all cylinders at the moment. Not only are they running a tasty looking Big Deal on lunches today but they are also hosting an evening of...
Knives out for Butchershop boys
The judges, including Albert Roux, centre, get to grips with the dishes at the competition Part of the ScotHot trade show at the SECC, today sees the finals of the Scottish Chef of the Year Award, organised bi-annually by the Federation of...
Quirk your Mother's Day
Tattoo or lunch? Lunch or tattoo? Mother’s Day gifts can be tricky Understandably, every restaurant in Scotland is currently trying to promote their Mother’s Day lunches. If you are still looking for somewhere to take your dear...
Pasta, non! Pâtes, s'il vous plait!
Pasta: a linguistic crime In France, L’Academie francaise has always been pretty zealous about guarding the purity of the French language. Nothing is more likely to make an Academy member throw up his mains in horreur than hearing...
Yea or Neigh?
Horses: rather more wary than they used to be of strangers bearing carrots The stories about horse meat in the food supply continue to multiply but, while many people are outraged at being duped, it seems that a fair chunk of the...
New Glasgow bar
The Kelvingrove Cafe many, many moons ago The 5pm Restaurant blog likes the look of the Kelvingrove Cafe which is coming to life on the west end of Argyle Street. It bills itself as ‘Glasgow’s 1st proper Cocktail Bar...
Scots do battle for Great British Menu
Mark Greenaway is one of the chefs competing in the Scottish heat of the Great British Menu. The eighth season of the Great British Menu is well underway and this week it’s the turn of the Scottish chefs to compete to see if one of their...
Blackwood's Bar & Grill launches in Edinburgh
Back in December, the 5pm Restaurants blog mentioned the new restaurant at the Nira Caledonia boutique hotel in Edinburgh’s New Town. Called Blackwood’s Bar & Grill, it launched officially this week. Scottish produce in...
Grin and bear it
The newspaper industry follows certain patterns. For instance, the third Monday of any new year is always hailed as the most depressing day of the year. Blue Monday Bad weather, a lack of sunlight and post-festive bills are all supposed...
Let there be haggis
The 5pm blog spent last night at the launch of a new book: The Macsween Haggis Bible. Following in the footsteps of the Stornoway Black Pudding Bible and the Italian Sausage Bible, The Macsween Haggis Bible is a love letter to...