[][1]This artist's impression of the Ghillie Dhu shows a spectacular interior Edinburgh’s bar scene is buzzing at the moment with a fistful of new places either just opened or on the cusp of serving their first customers. The one...
[][1]Will the makers of Avatar be chowing down on mini Kobe burgers on sunday night? Thanks to the Daily Beast site which has ferreted out the official menu for Sunday’s Oscars after-party. I always thought that film stars ate...
[][1]Tony Singh: could he be a contender? OK, this is completely and utterly unofficial but rumour has it that the Scottish chefs competing to represent Scotland in the next series of Great British Menu will be Alan Murchison of Paris...
[][1]The government is launching a campaign to encourage customers to ask where their tips go Tips make great stories. In 2007, A waitress at a Pizza Hut restaurant in Indiana received a $10,000 tip, rumoured to be the largest tip ever. It...
[][1]Marketing cheese 101: the French method Following on from our earlier cheesy post, I was tickled by this story in The Telegraph about the French cheese industry and its attempts to revive their flagging fromage sales. In Britain, if...
[][1]The Fromagiere contemplates a blue Can you tell your gorgonzola from a Roquefort? Ever wondered what makes a Stinky bishop smell or why Emmenthal has got holes in it? The Roving Fromagiere has the answers. The Fromagiere is Phoebe...
[][1]Anton Ego: the food critic from Ratatouille The Independent’s restaurant reviewer John Walsh has written a revealing piece about what he is looking for when he reviews a restaurant. Sunlight, a good steak, decent bottles at the...
[][1]Michael Winner: nearly as tanned as David Dickinson It’s no surprise that when you read those who-would-come-to-your-perfect-dinner-party pieces in the Sunday supplements that Michael Winner’s name rarely crops up. Rude,...
Following on from yesterday’s post aboout the Scottish government’s proposed measures to tackle obesity, here is a splendidly furious response to the initiative in The Publican. It is written by the Glasgow writer Roy Beers and...
[][1]Gravy wrestling: popular in Lancashire; yet to catch on elsewhere Earlier this week, a press release about the Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2010 drooped into my inbox. Alongside the usual categories for best small tourist...
The papers are full of stories about the Scottish government’s proposals to tackle Scotland’s obesity problem. Whichever way you look at it, there is a problem and it is set to get much worse. The government’s proposals to...
[][1]Let me entertain you: the Sapporo Teppanyaki chefs Sushi and family friendly are two terms which you don’t often see in the same sentence but if Glasgow’s Sapporo Teppanyaki restaurant have anything to do with it then...
Some political commentators are worried about the rise of the BNP. Australia may have the answer. Their Vindaloo Against Violence campaign has gone viral. Launched in response to a rise in violent attacks against Australia’s Indian...
[][1]Geoffrey and Katherine Smeddle: owners of the Peat Inn which was named the Restaurant of the Year Geoffrey Smeddle was crowned the king of the kitchen range last night when he picked up two gongs at the annual Scottish Restaurant...
[][1]Secret supper club meets arts happening The 5pm blog wrote about underground restaurants a couple of times last year. Seen by some as an inevitable result of the recession and by others as a backlash against conventional restaurants,...
I liked Simon Majumdar’s blog in the Guardian about the balance of power between waiting staff and restaurant customers. While recognising that not very many people want a return to the bad old days of pompous maitre d’s and...
