grazing happily…
We received our first grazing box from graze.com this morning and we love it. graze describe their service as healthy eating by post – essentially you get some fruit, nuts, seeds and/or treats delivered to your desk on a regular...
We received our first grazing box from graze.com this morning and we love it. graze describe their service as healthy eating by post – essentially you get some fruit, nuts, seeds and/or treats delivered to your desk on a regular...
An Italian entrepreneur has invented a vending machine which can make pizza from scratch in three minutes. Having slotted around £2.50 into the machine, customers can view their pizza’s progress from base ingredients...
When you leave a job voluntarily or are sacked from one, it can be tempting to burn your bridges behind you. Once beyond the reach of their revenge, who hasn’t wanted to tell their boss that their management sucks and that...
If your anything like me, you’ll love a good sandwich. scanwiches.com is like America’s Next Top Model for sandwich lovers, basically someone is scanning their sandwiches so we don’t have to. Check it out here ...
Edinburgh diners with long memories might recall the two branches of Tapas Ole which did much to popularise the concept of tapas in the capital during the Nineties. Cheap, cheerful and often raucous, I have hazy memories of...
There is a serious side to this story in The Record about a pub landlady who mistakenly fitted ultra-violet lights in her bar. Customers and staff are reported as suffering from sunburn and worse before the mistake was...
There is a cracking story in The Times today about umami. According to the piece, umami is the Japanese word for deliciousness. Identified as the fifth taste after sweet, sour, salty and bitter, it could be described as...
London based review site Qype have been digging around to find the Top 10 Sightings of Religious Figures in Food. Some are better than others, my personal favourite is the the grilled cheese shown on the right – which sold for...
I went out last night to a French restaurant in Edinburgh which is just finding its feet after recently opening its doors. It’s called L’escargot Bleu and it ticks most of the boxes needed for a typical French bistro. From...
Scotland has its fair share of themed restaurants but few are quite as bizarre as the Taiwanese ones shown in this Guardian photo spread. I can easily understand the appeal of the A380 In-Flight Kitchen which is modelled on a...
Its all go here at 5pm. So many new restaurants have come onto the site in the last few days…….the majority of them are Indian……what does that mean????? In Glasgow the new deals are from Ashoka Southside ; Ashoka at...
I liked the idea of restaurant staff wearing T-shirts displaying bad reviews as noted by Alan in one of yesterday’s blogs. It shows a sense of humour which isn’t always apparent in the storms that can follow bad reviews. ...
One thing we have learned here at 5pm is that many restaurants do not like getting bad reviews. Thankfully they are usually content with a moan to us and don’t take it out on you, the faithful customer. This may about to change if...
These are unhappy days to be a celebrity chef. Or at least they are if your surname is Ramsay or Blumenthal. According to a story here in The Herald, over half of the restaurants featured in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares...
Fearne Cotton, Cheryl Cole and Chris Moyles may be grabbing all the headlines as they attempt to climb Kilimanjaro but you don’t need to risk altitude sickness to support Red Nose Day. The official Red Nose Day is on Friday 13 March but...
After a devastating fire smoked Khushi’s out of their Victoria Street home last December, the popular Indian restaurant re-opened recently on West Nicholson Street. While the blaze was terrible and put several businesses out of...