[][1]We’ll be seeing lots of this soon, hopefully By this point of the year, asparagus lovers would normally expect to be knee-deep in the crunchy delicacy but a triple whammy of cold weather, drought and then, ironically, flooding...
[][1]Fancy a lamb chop? We’re not in Tesco now. Stuck for a gastro activity to get up to this weekend? Well, if you’re bored rigid with Saturday Kitchen then you could do a lot worse than setting the satnav to Dumfries and...
I’m usually quite a fan of when your average chocolate bar undergoes a makeover for a limited period. More often than not the addition of peanut butter sends me rushing to the corner shop to stock up my desk drawer on the...
[][1]The Spirit of Speyside: you nose it makes sense The latest Spirit of Speyside festival gets underway today with dozens of events dedicated to Scotland’s national drink. From trying your hand at filling a cask to watching...
[][1]Foodbeats.com: dropping the serving platters that matter Your blogger has been mildly tickled by FoodBeats, a collaboration between Lurpak and Last FM, which suggests playlists to cook to. Just launched, the site asks what food you...
[][1]Noma’s Rene Redezepi: on top of the world, again For the third year in a row, Copenhagen’s Noma is the best restaurant in the world according to Restaurant magazine’s annual survey of global gastronomic royalty. The...
[][1]Open air lunch at the Farmers’ Market in Edinburgh Interesting times at Edinburgh’s Farmers’ Market where chefs Dale Mailley and Edward Murray are hosting a series of pop-ups before launching their new restaurant, The Gardener’s...
[][1]Edinburgh’s Sheraton by night Spring is in the air and new restaurants are opening up like little cherry blossoms. Aaaah! First up, we should mention Edinburgh’s Sheraton which held a very lavish relaunch bash last night....
[][1]Drambuie’s Spirit of ’45 Edinburgh’s Scotch Whisky Experience has procured a second bottle of the Jacobite Collection – Spirit of ’45, the rarest and most valuable bottling in Drambuie’s range. They sold their...
[][1]Gordon Ramsay: not always in the news for the best reasons but probably done more than anyone else to promote British food abroad There is a thought-provoking piece in today’s Telegraph about the growing trend for Chinese people...
[][1]Are you lonesome tonight? Over the last couple of days, it seems as though most of the country has been eager to see if Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the pandas at Edinburgh Zoo, would make the most of their brief mating season, get jiggy...
[][1]The new Whisky Bar at Cameron House Hotel Tuesday is the first World Whisky Day, an event set up to celebrate both Scotland’s national drink and the life and work of the late Michael Jackson, one of the world’s most...
One of the great things about covering food and drink is that there is no shortage of weird stuff to write about. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the weirdest events tends to be in London. This weekend, a new wandering bar will set up on Saturday...
