[][1]The Rannoch Smokery is just one of the many Scottish businesses aiming to make the most of 2014 The 5pm Dining blog has been gazing into its crystal ball for 2014 and has come up with some predictions. Unless you have been living...
[][1]Eat in season or Tony Singh will come and get you As you may have noticed, after a brilliant summer, the sun seems to be taking a bit of a break; it’s raining more often and the leaves on the trees are beginning to turn. After many...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/74WEwUnmH-Y?feature=oembed] On Tuesday night, the 5pm Dining blog pulled on its increasingly tight dinner jacket and toddled along to the premiere of Sunshine on Leith. A feelgood, family-friendly hit, the...
[][1]Gran Caffe in Edinburgh’s Signet Library: definitely not a caff Anyone who dropped in to the Pommery Champagne Café Bar in Edinburgh’s Signet Library during the Fringe may be chuffed to learn that a permanent cafe is now...
[][1]Social and Cocktail can help you shake up your parties The 5pm Dining blog has seldom fought shy of a rip-snorting cocktail. The trouble is that while well trained bar staff can make it look the simplest thing in the world, whipping...
[][1]The bar at the recently launched Hope on Waterloo Street Maclay Inns have been busy boys and girls of late. Hot on the heels of opening Munro’s and relaunching the Tullie Inn, Balloch, the firm have just opened the doors of The...
[][1]Andy Warhol: captured for posterity in pizza form We’ve mentioned Domenico Crolla and his pizza art before on the 5pm Takeaway blog. If memory serves, the owner of Bella Napoli in Glasgow’s Southside had just recreated the Mona Lisa...
[][1]Champagne Central has injected some fizz into their cocktail line-up The 5pm Dining blog is delighted to report that we are being flooded with drink-related news. Few things perk up the post-Festival torpor quite as effectively as...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yp-S7E0-bXs?feature=oembed] The Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight gets underway from Saturday. Over the next fourteen days, organisers expect there to be over 200 food and drink related events held...
[][1]Craig Sandle is Executive Chef at The Pompadour by Galvin and Galvin Brasserie de Luxe, both new entrants in The Good Food Guide Scottish restaurants have a good showing in the latest edition of The Good Food Guide which is published...
At 5pm we really do have some brilliant deals, even if we say so ourselves. We believe you don’t have to spend a fortune to enjoy a good meal in a top quality restaurant – and thanks to us, you don’t have to. Here’s...
[][1]The Steampunk Cafe will be pulling into Drury Street on Saturday The 5pm Dining blog is always delighted to see people try out previously unexplored niches when it comes to opening bars and restaurants. Taking the niche concept to a...
[][1]Scottish game changer Gordon Buchanan hosted a Johnnie Walker Blue Label event aboard the John Walker & Sons Voyager yacht, to celebrate the end of its global journey, in Scotland this August. Photographer: Mike Wilkinson The 5pm...
[][1]Hardeep Singh Kohli will be demonstrating his mastery of the spice rack In August, most of the nation’s clowns, comics and jokers migrate to Edinburgh. However, as the Fringe draws to a close on Monday 26th of August, they fly off...
[][1]Silvano has opened on Great Western Road The 5pm Restaurant blog would like to extend a hearty welcome and a firm handshake to Silvano, a new Italian restaurant on the Great Western Road. It’s towards the Byres Road end of the...
[][1]Glasgow will be jumping during Piping Live! If the sound of the pipes and the whiff of haggis in the air get your blood racing then you’re in for a treat over the next few days. Starting on Sunday, Piping Live! is taking over Glasgow...
