The San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2009 were announced last night. The full list can be accessed from here. El Bulli and The Fat Duck still hog the top spots with Copenhagen’s Noma climbing seven places on last...
David Ramsden’s Dogs restaurant has been a howling success since it opened in Edinburgh last year. Packed tables, critical acclaim and a good showing at the Scottish Restaurant Awards have all underlined the popularity of the restaurant’s...
Last week’s post about the top ten Scottish foods provoked alternative suggestions which ran from Irn Bru and square sausage to, er, Highlander bacon and brown sauce crisps. The producer of Britain’s Best Dish is...
France’s President Sarkozy gave a master class in efficiency on Wednesday when he managed to insult three world leaders over the course of one lunch at the Elysee Palace. Doing his bit for the French diplomatic effort, the...
5pm is currently running a promotion with our good friends at Lancome. As awee treat to 5pm users, you can receive a complimentary skincare consultation. Simply book through 5pm at one of 50 selected restaurant in Glasgow and Edinburgh,...
I’m probably not the only person whose eyes watered a wee bit this morning upon reading a story in the Metro about the hottest chillies known to man. According to Marcel de Wit, the Australian who is producing said chillies,...
As St George’s Day looms on the horizon, The Times has come up with one writer’s top ten quintessentially English foods. It’s a neat but tricky idea. Here is my Scottish equivalent. 1) It...
Mistakes in menus tend to fall into two categories: there are the typos, spelling mistakes and translation errors that happen when the menu is written by someone whose grasp of English isn’t perfect and then there are the...
I’ve been crossing it off on my calendar and I can scarcely contain my excitement because it’s nearly here – April 21st is Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day! That magical day when once a year you can get a free cone...
New ventures in Glasgow and Edinburgh often seem to come in flurries and when one city is quiet then the other is buzzing. On the new openings front, Glasgow seems to be relatively calm at the moment while Edinburgh is...
According to reports in the national press, the latest craze to sweep the London eating out scene is the underground restaurant. A cross between a dinner party and dining in a restaurant, these semi-secret events take place...
Or at least it is if you are Hell’s Kitchen chef Jean Christophe Novelli. The Frenchman is opening a new restaurant in Puerto Banus, Spain this month and yesterday I did an interview with the man to talk about his new...
Edinburgh’s tram works are a controversial issue and I have no intention of fully opening that can of worms here. However, it was hard not to have a wry smile at this tale in The Scotsman. The first in a small chain of tram-themed...
In this piece in The Telegraph, Elin Roberts of Newcastle University for Life claims to have proved what many of us have known all along: a bacon butty helps cure a hangover. According to Ms Roberts, the carbs in...
History has been made as the worlds of celebrity and quality wine collided when Scarlett Johansson was announced as the face of Moet and Chandon. I don’t know about you but a glowing celebrity endorsement, by the star of the new Iron...
At last week’s G20 meeting there was a desperate scramble as nineteen of the world’s leaders jostled to make friends with China’s President Hu Jintao, the representative of one of the few countries in the world whose bank...
