[https://www.youtube.com/embed/UP34u6rdscs?feature=oembed] As the 5pm Dining blog noted waaaay back in January, there’s a new bar been prowling around Glasgow’s Bath Street for a few weeks just looking for the right moment to open. With...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/7gWqTam2rIM?feature=oembed] The 5pm Dining blog is always interested in new and unusual restaurants and they don’t come much more unconventional than the Wild Cabaret and Wicked Lounge which is taking...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/CP7UHiZvS-g?feature=oembed] October 5pm.co.uk launches a new advertising campaign on STV. The initial ads are part of a wider collaboration with STV… STV launch their new City Apps – apps for iPhone...
[//www.youtube.com/embed/wysl0waT0V0] As you may have noticed, here on the 5pm Food & Dining Blog we love a Christmas cocktail. So when Chaophraya in Glasgow offered to create a festive tipple, the “Not So Hot...
[//www.youtube.com/embed/c0cL8KDJfZw] Christmas is an excellent excuse to experiment with some cocktail recipes. Festive ingredients such as cinnamon, cranberry and mulled wine can be used in creative ways to create tipples with a festive...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/T8NlnhyZNVs?feature=oembed] Scotland Food and Drink have produced this clip of some of Scotland’s best known chefs and restaurateurs saying what Scotland’s larder means to them. Tomorrow is St...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/4LLx3FIH-kA?feature=oembed] The 5pm Dining blog is delighted to salute the fifth birthday of our fellow bloggers – Trampy and the Tramp’s Glasgow of Curry. Since 2008, this intrepid band of...
http://youtu.be/Smo8RRPocw4 Scottish saithe, also known as coley, was recently granted MSC certification as sustainable. I could try and tell you what this means in term of spawning stock biomass but, to be polite, I would be talking...
[][1]Fin Nicol, Chris May and Kyle McClernon of Buddy’s BBQ celebrate their win The 5pm Dining blog was at the Glasgow’s Best Burger competition on Ad Lib on Ingram Street earlier this week. Now in its third year, the competition...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/CP7UHiZvS-g?feature=oembed] Did you see our new ad on STV last night? Just in case you missed it, here it is in all its glory. We’re back on the box tonight at 9.30pm but you’ll probably miss...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/oXeh8BPL__g?feature=oembed] The Gannet opened to the public this weekend. A new addition to Finnieston’s blossoming restaurant scene, The Gannet is aiming for what it calls fine dining but without the...
[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...
[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...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/yWYP3s296SY?feature=oembed] Every now and then, this 5pm Dining blog writer goes to a cocktail demonstration, a tasting or a drinks master class. More often than not, I’ll come away convinced that I too can...
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/KLGhTmOqTNY?feature=oembed] The 5pm Dining blog is looking forward to the first episode of The Incredible Spice Men which is being broadcast on BBC2 tonight. Starring Cyrus Todiwala and Leith’s own Tony...
[][1]Bar Soba on Hanover Street in Edinburgh: the quiet before the storm The 5pm Blog is tipping its hat to Edinburgh’s Bar Soba after the Hanover Street venue has pulled off an audacious Fringe coup. As the Edinburgh Festivals prepare to...
