Black Dove Dining is about to take flight in Shawlands. The Hug and Pint, Black Dove, Bar Soba, The Bowery and Mango are all getting ready to welcome customers in Glasgow. It may be a bank holiday Monday but Glasgow’s restaurateurs...
29 – The Grill on the Square Popular with many 5pm Diners, 29 in Royal Exchange Square has an educated steak menu of primarily Scottish beef but also featuring Wagyu and USDA beef. We spoke to Head Chef David Friel who gave us some...
Pickled Ginger: bringing sushi to Finnieston. The 5pm Dining blog is delighted to welcome Pickled Ginger to the 5pm fold. The Finnieston restaurant opened on St Vincent Street a couple of weeks back and seems to be going great...
From L to R: Rae-Yen Song, Fran Caballero, Paul Flynn, Brady, Matthew Bainbridge and Isabella Widger. This 5pm Dining blog writer has often been inspired by beer. Unfortunately, in the cold light of day, my beer-fuelled bright ideas from...
The 5pm blog was kindly invited along to Wine Palate‘s ‘Spring Wine Festival’ held at the impressive Trade’s Hall in Glasgow. It was a fantastic opportunity to try a wide selection of wines and learn about them...
5pm’s Stephen enjoying a mouthful of burger Did you know that each Hard Rock Cafe across the world has its own Local Legendary burger? Many Glaswegians might be familiar with the Glasgow version a burger topped with haggis, white...
When we rounded up the dishes we believe every real Glaswegian should try once in their life the thing that struck us is how many of them were a classic dish subverted by a truly Glasgow twist. Buckfast infused burger? Haggis pakora?...
Go Greek at the Baby Grand on Sunday 24th May. The 5pm Dining blog is already dreaming of our summer hols. Sand between our toes; sun on our back and the smell of simply cooked seafood drifting over from the barbie. If we close our eyes,...
Yellowfin tuna sashimi at Gamba. The first Coeliac Awareness Week gets underway today. The campaign kicks off a two year Is it coeliac disease? campaign. In Glasgow, Gamba seafood restaurant has long been recognised for its approach to...
Keeping it simple at Isleña If you want to top up your tan then Glasgow is probably not ahead of Ibiza, Cannes and Kos on your sunshine destination wish lists. That doesn’t mean that you can’t get a taste of the Mediterranean...
Petra Wetzel outside WEST on the Corner. Saturday will see the official opening weekend of WEST bar and restaurant in Glasgow’s West End. West on the Corner, to give the new bar its full name, is on Woodlands Road in the premises...
There are few better ways to end a meal than with a dram of award winning whisky. With this in mind, we’ve teamed up with leading whisky producers Whyte & Mackay to offer our 5pm customers just that. [][1]L-R: John Quigley...
Here at 5pm, we are regularly welcoming restaurants in Glasgow and Edinburgh to our website. Here’s the latest few to join our team. Las Iguanas A fun Latin American restaurant and bar on Glasgow city centre’s West Nile...
Sugar Dumplin’ is aiming for a beach bar vibe. Zoinks! Two new restaurants have just opened in Glasgow and neither are burger bars. Hallelujah and pass the jerk sauce. On Hope Street, Fire in Babylon is all about West Indian food,...
This 5pm Dining blogger was surprised to see the Slug and Lettuce brand rise again in Glasgow and Edinburgh. I had assumed, wrongly, that the brand had vanished at some point in the Noughties. The last one we were aware of was on St...
Inside Osteria del Temp Perso. The 5pm Dining blog would like to say ‘Buongiorno’ to Osteria del Tempo Perso, a new Italian restaurant which is finding its feet in the former Tony Marconi site in the Italian Centre on...
