You already know that 5pm offers the best value dining deals in town, but we want everyone else to know it too, so yesterday we launched our very first tv campaign in STV’s Edinburgh region! The advert outlines all the great reasons...
Laura Santtini in rather glam chef's whites. Photo: Sean Gleason Easy Tasty Italian is the debut cookbook from Laura Santtini and it is as unusual as its author. With a background in events management for MTV and a stint working for Lynne...
The John Hope Gateway looks striking The John Hope Gateway opens tomorrow at the west end of Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden. A new £15.7m visitor facility, it is aiming to be a shining beacon of green construction, sustainability...
I love this picture by David Sykes, it’s so fun. Although it is making me wonder if it would be possible to make a full fry up in the 5pm Towers kitchen… ...
Edinburgh’s Santini restaurant is reaching out to the regions with a series of new menus inspired by four of Italy’s most celebrated gourmet hot spots. Starting from today, each regional menu will be available for two weeks, beginning with...
In August this year, Edinburgh’s Kismot restaurant brewed up some useful publicity with the Kismot Killer, a curry so hot that it could be used as a blacksmith’s forge. Customers who ordered it were supposed to sign a health...
Roddy Hart will be having one big groove at Libertine Former Beanscene head honcho Gordon Richardson has plans to launch two new ventures in Paisley and Ayr later this month which he hopes will redefine the pub. He has teamed up with...
In Edinburgh, venerable Italian Bellini has vanished from its New Town premises and is being replaced by Karen’s Unicorn Chinese Restaurant. This is the second branch of the Unicorn after the St Stephens Street original. Pierre...
In direct contradiction to my original scoffing comments on Jonathan’s original post in April I’ve become increasingly interested in the underground restaurant scene that’s blossoming in London. I’ve even considered...
Plates not preferred in Scotland The competition for the Fish & Chip Shop of the Year run by Seafish is beginning to heat up and that means we will all soon be landing a large catch of stories about the benefits of going to the...
David Ramsden: known for his dogged determination Not content with his Dogs and Amore Dogs restaurants, Edinburgh restaurateur David Ramsden will open his Underdogs bar at 5.30pm this afternoon. Sitting pretty in a basement space under...
The National Galleries of Scotland announced this morning that Victor and Carina Contini, the team behind the Centotre and Zanzero restaurants, are to open The Scottish Café and Restaurant at the National Gallery on The Mound. Food from...
There is never a dull moment in Cucina In Edinburgh, Hotel Missoni’s Italian restaurant Cucina has launched two new menus designed to make the most of seasonal ingredients and offer some different price points from the a la...
It’s probably taken me about a year longer than anyone else to come around to the idea but I’m realising that Twitter is actually a pretty good way to review food and drink. The miniscule word count means you have to keep it...
How to state your case with beer Increasingly, their beers seem designed to court controversy rather than appeal to customers but I still have a sneaking admiration for the mavericks at Brewdog. The Scottish company makes some cracking...
The Two Fat Ladies have changed a bit According to a report in Variety Magazine, Gordon Ramsay is to star in his own stop animation cartoon series called At Your Service. Many would argue that the chef became a cartoon parody of himself...
