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Holey roast, Edinburgh! Broughton and Bross Bagels combine
THE Broughton gastro-pub has joined forced with Bross Bagels to turn its Sunday roast into a sandwich. “The Holey Roast” bagel will be launched at Stockbridge market in Edinburgh on Sunday. One pound from every Holey Bagel sold at the Stockbridge market will be donated to Alzheimers Scotland. The toasted bagel – which features roast…
Read MoreGlasgow Coffee Festival promises to be ‘biggest ever’
ORGANISERS of this May’s Glasgow Coffee Festival have promised to lay on the “biggest coffee festival Scotland has ever seen”. Dear Green Coffee Roasters is bringing the festival back to The Briggait on 13 and 14 May. Last year, more than 2,400 people attended the festival, which this year will be staged for the eighth…
Read MoreCredo: Pippa Evans
Comedian and writer Pippa Evans tells Simone Waters about her audience pet hate, favourite tour snack, and why an ambulance is the perfect tool for performers. Credo… Latin. (n) ‘I believe’. A set of beliefs that influences the way you live. I grew up in West London but now I live in Edinburgh – Marchmont…
Read MoreVenison canapé selected for Eat Game Awards
A “SHOW-STOPPING venison anticucho with nori and puffed wild rice” canapé has won the top prize at the Colleges’ Cookery Competition. The contest, organised by the British Association for Shooting & Conservation (BASC) and Highland Game, was won by George Oakes, a third year student at Westminster Kingsway College. More than 70 students entered their…
Read MoreRESTAURANT REVIEW: The Black Grape, Edinburgh
Richard Bath pays a visit to The Black Grape on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. FOR years I would wander to work down the Royal Mile and the Canongate, and virtually every day I’d wonder how Pancho Villas kept going. And not just going, but going and going and still bloody going. The Mexican restaurant set back…
Read MoreDUCK & WAFFLE: An exclusive look at Edinburgh’s newest eatery
She may have loved London’s sky-high Duck & Waffle restaurant, but what did Chief Sub Rosie Morton make of Auld Reekie’s new ‘gastro diner’? THE first time I visited London’s Duck & Waffle restaurant, it felt like a real occasion. Certainly, the impressive 40th floor ‘gastro diner’ at 110 Bishopsgate felt a far cry from…
Read MoreKa Pao: When fusion goes right
Simone Waters reviews the Edinburgh branch of Ka Pao, the Glasgow fusion food pioneer. SITUATED in Edinburgh’s St James Quarter shopping centre, Ka Pao brings a plethora of flavours together into a South-East Asian fusion. We are met by friendly staff when entering this industrial and funky establishment and, while the mood lighting may be…
Read MoreSpirits news from the Hebrides
THREE spirits stalwarts on the Outer Hebrides are having a busy start to the year. Angus A MacMillan and Angus E MacMillan, the father-and-son team building Benbecula distillery, have unveiled the first three bottles from MacMillan Spirits. They’ve launched: “Wheelhouse Whisky”, an eight-year-old single cask Islay single malt; “Machair Gin”, a gin that contains heather…
Read MoreRESTAURANT REVIEW: Six By Nico – ‘Neverland’ menu
Keith McIntyre reviews the new “Neverland” menu at the Six By Nico restaurant in Glasgow’s Finnieston district. WHEN chef Nico Simeone launched his Six By Nico restaurant in Glasgow’s Finnieston back in 2017, it is very doubtful that anyone could have predicted quite how much of an explosive impact he would have on the country’s…
Read MoreEdinburgh names ’23 for 23′
SCOTLAND’S capital has revealed “23 for 23” – nearly two dozen eateries it thinks foodies should visit this year. The list – which was produced by Forever Edinburgh, the city council’s marketing wing – includes restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and street food vendors. The guide focuses on local businesses, including A Wee Taste of Edinburgh,…
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