Local produce is a key feature of Firebrick Brasserie’s menus. Firebrick Brasserie is a new family-friendly bistro in Lauder. David Haetzman and Amanda Jordan, the former head chef and pastry chef at Kyloe in Edinburgh, are behind...
Bye bye festival. You were fun but it couldn’t last forever. All those late nights were taking their toll. Happily, there are plenty of more sedate pleasures to be enjoyed in the capital over the next few months. Promising to...
Franklin and Sloane: a new G1 venture in Kilmarnock. As ever, there are lots of new places springing into life all over the Central Belt. We hear that the G1 Group plans to double the size of its estate to around a hundred outlets over...
Aine Kelly: putting the Saltire in your supper at the new Acanthus. As we may have mentioned once or twice, it’s the Year of Food and Drink Scotland 2015 and anyone connected with the Scottish restaurant industry is flying the flag...
Lobster is one of the options at the new Harry’s Bar and Grill. Hmmm. Monday. Either a bright start on a fresh week or the chance to quietly ponder the mistakes of the previous 48 hours. Here at the 5pm Dining blog, our cup is...
Polished presentation is a key part of The Table experience. There are all sorts of interesting new places opening at the moment but The Table, on Edinburgh’s Dundas Street, is one of the boldest. It’s billed as ‘ten...
Edinburgh’s restaurateurs may have been working like mad to open up new ventures before the festivals arrive but Glasgow’s restaurateurs have not been asleep at the switch. 5pm Dining has recently welcomed several new venues...
The kitchen brigade at the new giraffe in Glasgow. Have you spotted the giraffe in Glasgow city centre yet? We are, of course referring to the new giraffe restaurant (yup, the lower case is deliberate) which has just opened on the corner...
Mango: Latin American food, cocktails and a 3am licence. There are great new restaurants joining 5pm Dining all the time. The latest to go live is Mango Restaurant and Bar, a late night bar, kitchen, club and music venue on Sauchiehall...
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...
Thirsty work at OX184. The 5pm Dining blog was at the official opening of OX184 on Edinburgh’s Cowgate last night. We had blogged about it when it first opened back in March but last night was the first time that we have seen the...
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...
Stylish gantry at Wolf and Water in Leith. It is all go on Edinburgh’s bar and restaurant scene. Up in the Old Town, in the Quartermile development, Enzo has become No 8 Lister Square, Formerly an Italian restaurant and bar, it is...
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...
How Colonnades will look when it opens in June. Over the last few summers, the gorgeous Signet Library in Edinburgh has teamed up with the caterer Heritage Portfolio to play host to the Pommery Champagne Café Bar – a welcome haven of...
