Depending on where you stand, today’s article in The Guardian about the all you can eat Taybarns chain of restaurants is either great news or very scary. Owned by Whitbread, the chain of seven offers vast buffet meals laid out on 34 metre...
These two lists of odd requests made by hotel guests might raise a few eyebrows. It’s one thing to order off menu but quite another to ask if you can design a private golf course on a glacier. Courtesy of Caterer and Hotel, we also liked...
We’ve already discussed the etiquette of eating out, but yesterday’s Word of Mouth blog brought a new issue to my attention: is it acceptable to photograph your food in a restaurant? The rise of food blogs and more and more...
According to this report in yesterday’s Sunday Times, Coca Cola are test marketing a new milk based carbonated drink in New York. Marketed as the ‘world’s first vibrancy drink’, Vio is a mix of skimmed milk, cream,...
With the Open done and dusted, life is returning to its luxurious norm at the Turnberry resort. Just re-opened after a £30 million re-fit, the rather swish hotel now boasts several new eating and drinking options. One of the most fun is...
At uni I had a friend who loved Irn Bru so much that he had the logo tattooed on his arm. It was an amusing conversation piece at the time, but even then I thought it was the sort of thing you’d grow up to regret. I mean, I love the...
We thought you might enjoy reading about some of the chefs and restaurant owners that ply their trade around these parts. The first subject in our monthly series of interviews is Daniel Vencker. Daniel Vencker: veteran of Edinburgh...
Edinburgh’s two Urban Angel branches have just introduced a fifty mile menu. With all ingredients sourced from within a fifty mile radius of central Edinburgh, the two course, £18 menu aims to support local farmers, reduce food miles and...
is my new favourite food blog. It’s seems to focus on the unusual, peculiar, and even gross, but with a genuine enthusiasm for food and eating. they also put recipes of everything they cook, so you can have a go at vinegar pie or...
According to Eat Out magazine, The Kitchin in Edinburgh is the second best restaurant in the UK with only Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck to beat. I’m not sure how scientific their methods were but they claim to have collated most...
Interesting article on Timesonline covering a hip foodie party down in swinging London, this one based around the idea of a ‘futurist aerobanquet’. It does seem that these sort of fancy-pants events are catching on (we’ve...
Three years ago, Bo Bar on Glasgow’s Byres Road hit the headlines when it launched by holding a nude photo-shoot in its bar. Brave West Enders were quick to volunteer to bare all and the resulting buff but tasteful shot still hangs on the...
As noted here, The Scotch Whisky Experience on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile recently unveiled its jaw-dropping new exhibit: the world’s largest collection of whiskies housed in a purpose built glass vault. The vault is now open for private...
I’ve been trying to think of some witty observations for this post for 5 minutes, but I just don’t know what to do with it. What you see to the right is a Wendy’s ‘Baconator Combo’ which has had an extreme...
Edinburgh’s sixth Pizza Express has just opened on the corner of George IV Bridge and Victoria Terrace right next to the new Hotel Missoni. Pizza Express: takes a slice of the city centre restaurant market ...
Found this delightful diary entry by Noel Coward. Sunday 19 November 1961 (Jamaica) Cole and I had a long and cosy talk about death the other evening, sitting up here watching the dark come and waiting for the fireflies to appear. He is...
