Spice up the Festival It’s festival time again and Edinburgh is jumping – we meandered our way through the streets of the old town …
Food review: Tony Singh’s Road Trip, Apex International Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
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Event: Experiencing wine from the Loire Valley at Café St Honoré
Re-discovering the old country Over the years the new kids on the block from California, New Zealand and South America have edged France out of the way …
Food Review: Badabing, 57 Kirk Road, Wishaw ML2 7BL ***CLOSED***
Located in a former cinema that looks more like a Chinese restaurant from the outside with the implied red Torii gate (we have since discovered …
Food Review: Shiso Burger, 29C August Str, Mitte, Berlin 10119
Take a leaf out of Shiso’s book… Shiso Burger on Auguststrasse in Mitte had been recommended to us so we headed there specifically. Inside it was full …
Merchant City Festival, Glasgow
Merchant City Festival Glasgow Our chum Dan Littauer from Kaleidoscot nipped down to the Merchant City Festival for us and shared his wanderings. Art, street …
Food review: ASK Italian, 9-13 Shandwick Place, Rutland court, Edinburgh, EH2 4RG
ASK Italian now has well over 100 restaurants in the UK and we’d eaten in the Glasgow Springfield Quay (now since closed) and the Tudor-styled …
Foodies Festival – Inverleith Park 7, 8 and 9th August
Foodies Festival’s flagship event returns to Edinburgh The Foodies Festival returns to Inverleith Park 7,8,9th August, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Last years Edinburgh Foodies Festival …
Event: Heverlee Belgian National Day – food & beer pairing at Tontine lane pop-up
Celebrating Belgian-style with Heverlee Beer We were invited along to the Tontine Lane pop-up to celebrate Belgian National Day on 21st July with Heverlee Beer …
Food Review: Konnopke’s Imbiss, Schönhauser Allee 44 b, Berlin, Germany
Currywurst under the Bahn A part of Berlin food culture since 1930, Konnopke’s Imbiss is still a Berliner favourite. Everyone and anyone come here for …
Event: Glasgow Gourmands First Tasting Event
The inaugural Glasgow Gourmands tasting! We’ve all been to wine and cheese classes and even beer and cheese evenings but what about Gin? Intrigued? Well …
Food Review: Food Fillas, 87 Renfield Street, Glasgow
Budget lunch in the city centre Food Fillas have relocated from Ingram Street up to the corner of Renfield Street and Bath Street. A much …
Event: Slow Dining Dinner with Menabrea and Antonio Favuzzi at Divino Enoteca
L’Anima come to Edinburgh with Menabrea Head chef at London’s L’Anima restaurant and Menabrea ambassador, Antonio ‘Lello’ Favuzzi, created a wonderful fusion of Italian and …
Food review: Topolabamba, 89 St Vincent St, Glasgow G2 5TF
One of these days I hope to visit Mexico…and Texas, until then I will have to make do with the numerous restaurants in town. One …
Product Review: Graze Good to Go range
Graze Good to Go Range launches Graze boxes which are delivered to your door have been around for a few years now but what if …
The Moretti Gran Tour – Edinburgh, Leeds and London
The Moretti Gran Tour Edinburgh 9th – 12th July 2015 18:00 – 23:00 (9th-11th) 14:00-18:00 (12th) London 16th- 19th July Leeds 30th July – 2nd …
Food review: Steak, Cattle & Roll, Weaver St, Glasgow G4 0RN
We’ve been sceptical about American (themed) burger places like Buddy’s and Five Guys but when Steak, Cattle & Roll (formerly Al’s American Diner) were offering …
Sat and Sun – Scottish Furniture Pop Up
Bringing Local Back! Blue Tin Events are bringing a weekend of furniture to textiles, fashion to food, with their pop-up shop offer unique products and …
Food Review: The Burrell, 1534 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow
Whether it’s been called Old Swan, The Stoat and Ferret, 1901 or The Burrell Bar Shawlands the food always had a good name. We hadn’t eaten …
Scotland’s Larder Live and Food to Go
Foodies are catered for at Royal Highland Show ‘Scotland’s Larder Live!’ brings Scotland’s food production to the fore at this years Royal Highland Show Royal Highland …
Review: Carters at The Busby Hotel, 1 Field Road, Busby, Glasgow
The Busby Hotel re-opened just before Christmas after a complete refurbishment. We had never been before as the building looked quite sad and neglected. However, …
Savour Festival – Sun 5th July – Edinburgh
Savour festival returns to Summerhall. buy tickets here The Dissection Room One Square Bar will create our Gin Bar. Edinburgh is fast becoming ‘Gin City’ …
FoodieHub – Global Awards Weekend
We have the honour of being one of the food experts for FoodieHub and are joining 40 other experts in celebrating the third annual Global …
Bistro in Vitro – Lab Grown Meat
Tonight sees the launch of Bistro In Vitro, an online science fiction documentary about the future of meat with an online fictional lab-grown meat restaurant …
Food review: Chimichanga, Unit R1, Silverburn, Glasgow, G53 6AG
Chimichanga is one of the new chain restaurants to have opened recently in the expanded food court at Silverburn Shopping centre – along with Pizza Express, …