SF Weekly is reporting that KFC are looking for the new face of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The colonel is being sent to the retirement home and he’s going to be replaced by an ordinary joe. Unfortunately they are looking on myspace,...
Fastcompany.com have continued their ‘The Most Creative People In…’ series (previous installments include architecture, marketing and advertising and business) with an edition on food. The list covers such foodie moguls...
Cameron’s restaurant in the Hilton Glasgow launch their first ever Cookery Experience tomorrow. Led by executive head chef James Murphy, a team of chefs from the restaurant will be demonstrating how to cook the kind of four...
The sun is out, the nights are long and it’s Friday. It doesn’t get much better than that. This weekend has the potential to be a real blast as today is the first day of Glasgow’s West End Festival. The big event is Festival...
Having enjoyed raging success with his Pinxto tapas restaurant, Allan Mawn has branched out with a new venture that sits next door to his existing Dumbarton Road restaurant in Glasgow. Velvet Elvis is a bar and...
As has been widely reported in pretty much every newspaper, website and blog going, Gordon Ramsay’s Australian trip has been less than bonzer on the PR front. What he did or didn’t say about the Australian TV journalist Tracy...
Glasgow’s third Paperino restaurant opens today on the site of the former 78 St Vincent Street restaurant. Apparently, the Italian restaurants take their name from the Italian for Donald Duck, the Disney icon who, by happy...
Across the UK, it’s always a close call as to whether there are more Indian or Chinese restaurants. I have no figures for this but, in Glasgow, it often seems as though Italian food might be more popular than either judging by the...
Restaurateurs are often colourful characters and Edinburgh’s Brian Donkin is no exception. A gambler, golfer and occasional wearer of Albanian army outfits, Donkin used to own the city’s Oyster bars as well as the Camargue...
There are plenty of niche markets within the food and restaurant trades. From the Stinking Rose restaurant in San Francisco which uses garlic in every dish to the Icelandic taste for rotting shark meat, it seems that there...
Finally! Some scientists have finally gotten around to working on something important. Ice cream that doesn’t melt! The good people at Cold Stone Creamery have conjured up some ice cream which, when frozen, is...
The grill or steakhouse is one of those restaurant types that seems to pop in and out of fashion on a regular basis. They are a bit like cocktails in that they have a few years of seeming naff or dull followed by a few more...
It’s been a few years in development but the much anticipated Missoni hotel opened this week on the corner of the Royal Mile and George IV Bridge in Edinburgh. It’s the first in a proposed chain of Missoni hotels with the...
Arta in Glasgow’s Merchant City is celebrating its tenth birthday this year by running a fun programme of events throughout June. Flamenco performances, salsa classes and live music are all promised at the...
Ever look at Barry Norman and think ‘I’d buy a pickle off that man’? Me neither until today, but now I’m determined to scour every Sainsburys in the land until I get me a jar of Barry Norman Pickled Onions. Or I...
Ferran Adria, Heston Blumenthal and Sat Bains are all famous for having kitchens that could double as laboratories. They haven’t quite thrown out all of their pots and pans in favour of a nice set of test tubes and beakers but when...
