Monster Burger Challenge
[][1]Ready for action! Alan and Michael take on the burger challenge. Alan and Michael are 5pm’s resident office gannets. Their appetites know no bounds – the biscuit corner doesn’t stand a chance when they’re...
Videos archives
Scottish Restaurant Awards Finalists: Best Seafood Restaurants
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/hp-6CZ3YtRo?feature=oembed] The Cafe Fish team celebrate victory at last year’s awards OK, ladies and gentlemen, silence please. Drum roll…. There is less than two weeks to go before the...
Spirit of Speyside countdown
[][1]There will be whisky in every direction, as far as the eye can see Monday morning! What finer time than this for our thoughts to turn to whisky? Specifically, the Spirit of Speyside Festival which launches on Thursday. Running over...
Opening a port bottle with a feather
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/8p0-gJF65q8?feature=oembed] You know what it’s like. You’ve got a hundred-year-old bottle of port but don’t want to open it with a corkscrew as you are afraid that the cork has...
Rock 'n' rolling boil
Eat to the beat Compilation CDs to accompany road trips have been around for a while but, on Monday, Sony are to release Cooking Songs, a three CD album stuffed with tunes to bake along to. TV chef Gino D’Acampo has also stirred in eight...
French pop-up at The Hub
Fred Berkmiller: knows his oignons Over the last couple of years, Fred Berkmiller, chef-patron of L’Escargot Blanc and L’Escargot Bleu, and the Institut français in Edinburgh have organised an exchange programme with young cooking students...
Bar Soba sets up in Edinburgh
[][1]Bar Soba has crossed the M8 and launched in Edinburgh The 5pm blog spent the run-up to Christmas with its nose firmly attached to the grindstone. Still, we don’t know how we missed the fact that Bar Soba, a long time hit in...
Hail the cocktail
[][1]Flaming cocktails: don’t try this at home, kids The 5pm blog is partial to a cocktail at any time of year but Christmas always seems a particularly appropriate time for a Brandy Alexander. Cocktail demos If you like cocktails...
Eric and Ernie: the full English
The comedy TV channel Gold are launching a new series tonight called Bring Me Morecambe & Wise. It will feature rare and unseen footage of Britain’s favourite comedy duo alongside the much loved extracts they are most famous for. How...
Performance of One Pig
[][1]One Pig being performed The 5pm blog may not be the most appropriate place for this one but, if you are really interested in the relationship between the meat on our plates and the animals that produce it, then you might want to catch...
Hey Pesto!
[https://www.youtube.com/embed/gmxxiOSjYas?feature=oembed] Excitement is beginning to build for the big series of festivals which will take place in Edinburgh in August. But you don’t need to be on the eastern end of the M8 to capture some...
Food for Louis
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...
Kanpai reviews
[][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...
Asparagus season
[][1]Mattia Camorani: head chef at Cucina at Hotel Missoni The recent Easter weekend means that the brief British asparagus season is at hand. The kitchen team at Cucina at Hotel Missoni in Edinburgh have been quick off the blocks to...