[][1]'We're looking for a lovely plate of food.' Yay! After what seems like an eternity since Masterchef last ended, Celebrity Masterchef is back on our screens tonight. At 8pm, John Torode and Gregg Wallace will be back on BBC One to...
The Guardian has recycled a very old story about a caterer who was asked to provide the food for a Roman orgy being held by a Harvard Professor in the Seventies. The caterer, now a professor in her own right, duly went away and studied her...
[][1]The Rat Pack is back in Edinburgh The Rat Pack piano bar on Edinburgh’s Shandwick Place re-opened at the weekend after closing for a refurbishment. Now extended and scrubbed up, the Rat Pack is back in action until 3am every...
The 5pm blog has been unusually quiet on the bacon reporting front of late. Usually a month doesn’t go by without word reaching us of some new bacon-related folly but, over the last few months, there’s been zip, nowt and...
In Glasgow, Tuscany Square seems to have been replaced by Centro Italiano. A John Street restaurant in the Merchant City, Tuscany Square was open for around a year. Centro Italiano seems to have more of a focus on tapas. Naturally,...
[][1]Eat cake at Cup As always, Byres Road is a hotbed of intrigue as far as the catering trade goes. Mediterraneo has bid its customers a fond adieu and been replaced with Cup who have signed up with 5pm. Specialising in fine tea and...
[][1]The glass cupola at Corinthian Just got this pic in of the dome at Glasgow’s soon to be relaunched Corinthian Club. There can’t be many bars that can boast a ceiling like that. ...
[][1]Sabaton play The Garage in October. They may prefer a curry to a sole Meuniere. On Sauchiehall Street, Rare 325, a short-lived seafood and game restaurant, has closed and been replaced by the Mumbai Brasserie. Situated at the rock...
[][1]The countdown to the Corinthian relaunch is getting closer Yesterday, the blog had an impromptu tour of the Corinthian Club on Glasgow’s Ingram Street. Closed in January, the flagship venue of Stefan King’s G1 Group is...
Some of you may be interested to know that we’ve added two new events to the site that are taking place in Glasgow! Bar Soba & Kitchen are holding more of their Cocktail Masterclasses! The classes take place on Sundays, Mondays...
[][1]All that's missing is you and a curry Ashoka at The Mill has opened an extensive hidden beer terrace overlooking the fast flowing Brock Burn. The terrace gives up to 40 diners an opportunity to soak up the rays while getting outside...
The blog was at the launch of Tom Kitchin’s new Edinburgh restaurant last night. Called Castle Terrace, the 50 cover dining room will open to the public on Wednesday. At the helm in the kitchen is Dominic Jack, an old kitchen comrade...
[][1]Matthew Martins of The Four Seasons in Perthsire Congrats to Matthew Martins, Head Chef of the Four Seasons Hotel in St. Fillans, Perthshire, for winning the Scottish Heat of the prestigious Escoffier Challenge. Matthew will now go...
[][1]Haggis: now made by Welshmen in Paisley The blog was amused, bemused and tickled by news of a bar in Paisley which claims to sell Welsh haggis. The Station Lounge is a new place on Canal Street. The chef is a Welshman called Gary...
I liked this piece on The Daily Beast website about spotting contaminated seafood. It’s all about how people can use a simple sniff test to ascertain whether or not the seafood in front of them has been contaminated by oil from the...
[][1]Dominic Jack: king of the castle? Four years ago, Tom Kitchin launched his eponymous restaurant in Leith. Within six months, The Kitchin had been awarded its first Michelin star and, not long afterwards, Tom was becoming a regular...
