[][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...
A good name can boost a business so top marks to YummyTori, a soon to launch restaurant on Edinburgh’s Lothian Road, which specialises in yakitori or Japanese style grilled chicken. As well as grilled meats on skewers, the owners...
[][1]Cupcakes are a must at Cup Cup cafe on Byres Road has expanded in to the city centre. The Cup Tea Lounge opens on Renfield Street today. Following the blue print of the popular West End venue, visitors can expect a similar range of...
[][1]Casa San Lorenzo: one day, all this will be a land of veg and honey Edinburgh’s Centotre restaurant held a bash to celebrate its eighth birthday at the weekend. Amid the cake and bubbles, owners Victor and Carina Contini kept...
[][1]Freshly prepared food is the name of the game at Cucina Earlier this year, Cucina at Hotel Missoni won the Italian Restaurant of the Year Award at the Scottish Restaurant Awards. It was the second year in a row that they have managed...
[][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]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...
Just a quick pointer towards a piece in The Guardian which analyses the dietary habits of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five.If you are feeling uber-geeky then the full data sets are here. Who would like to see a similar statistic breakdown...
No pics for this post as I don’t want to put you off your lunch but you might want to look at the Food for Louis YouTube channel in which Londoner Louis Cole eats lots animals which most of wouldn’t wish to consider as food. It...
[][1]Crabshakk has a little baby brother: Table 11 Since opening in 2009, the Crabshakk in Glasgow’s Finnieston has been going great guns with fantastic reviews from the national press and, more importantly, lots of bums on...
[][1]Kanpai’s chefs impressed the Scotsman’s critic Back in February, Edinburgh’s Kanpai Sushi restaurant won the Newcomer of the Year title at the Scottish Restaurant Awards.We blogged about it here. At the weekend, The...
[][1]Glasgow’s Viva Brazil is on trend according to Olive mag According to Olive magazine, Glasgow’s Viva Brazil helps demonstrate one of the eating trends which will rock the culinary world in 2012. The May edition of the...
[][1]Mark Greenaway is on the telly tonight Finished your last Easter Egg? Can’t bear the thought of another eggciting family activity? Yup, me too. After a very long lunch yesterday, the blog is feeling a little… tired...
[][1]Giles Coren: fishing for the truth about Our Food Just a quick nib to draw your attention to Our Food, a new, four part, BBC2 documentary series looking at regional food production in the UK. Among others, The Times’ restaurant...
About three weeks back, the blog mentioned the arrival of Akbar’s restaurant and also Cafe Darna, two new Indian restaurants in Glasgow. Ron Mackenna reviewed Akbar’s in The Herald and his review is here while Trampy and the...
