Posts Tagged ‘eating out’
Review: Mara, Aberdeen
Mara brings fantastic Italian wines and inspired small plates to the Granite City. Grant Dickie heads along to try out the city’s latest eatery. Thursday evening, and after a day of working, nothing is better than escaping the house to wind down with a bottle of wine and some delicious food. Enter Mara. New…
Read MoreReview: An Cala Ciùin, Isle of Mull
In 2022, Isle of Mull hoteliers Les and Meg MacLeod decided it was time to sail off into retirement. Only the second family to own the historic Mishnish Hotel in Tobermory, they had spent eight years at the helm after buying the iconic waterfront business in 2014. But their plans to sell the hotel and…
Read MoreScotland’s floating hotel Fingal rolls out five-course Easter Afternoon Tea
Sponsored Content Just in time for Easter, Edinburgh’s luxury floating hotel Fingal has unveiled an indulgent five-course Afternoon Tea. Fingal, ‘AA Hotel of the Year Scotland’, is permanently berthed on Edinburgh’s waterfront, and provides a nautical setting for diners, with all the glamour and style of a superyacht, but with an air of Art Deco…
Read MoreReview: Rio, Edinburgh ‘The seven different styles of steaks are as good in quality as in quantity’
The best thing about Jamie’s Italian in Edinburgh was the space it occupied in the city centre’s historic Assembly Rooms. With its high ceilings, ornate cornicing, imposing chandeliers, horseshoe bar area and grand proportions, it had a gravitas that wasn’t always matched by the food that was served. Now that the Pukka One has departed…
Read MoreSUSHISAMBA: The W Hotel serves up a night to remember
There is something to be said for fusion cuisine. Of course, I’m not talking about midnight fridge raids that result in a state of fusion confusion. Nor am I talking about viral food ‘hacks’ like coffee paired with cheese. (Try as they might, influencers will never convince me that a Parmesan Espresso Martini is a…
Read MoreShanghai Oriental: A modern twist on the Chinese food we know and love
There’s nothing better than being pleasantly surprised by a new restaurant – an unexpected positive twist to a meal you otherwise thought might just be OK. Well that’s exactly the feeling I got after a recent visit to Shanghai Oriental, a modern Cantonese restaurant in Larkhall. Having been a regular takeaway customer at their sister…
Read MoreShanghai Oriental: A modern twist on the Chinese food we know and love
There’s nothing better than being pleasantly surprised by a new restaurant – an unexpected positive twist to a meal you otherwise thought might just be OK. Well that’s exactly the feeling I got after a recent visit to Shanghai Oriental, a modern Cantonese restaurant in Larkhall. Having been a regular takeaway customer at their sister…
Read MoreThe Loveable Rogue: Good times and good scran
With the promise of good times and good scran, Ellie Forbes checks out The Loveable Rogue in Glasgow to see if it can deliver. The Loveable Rogue is doing a very skilful dance. The restaurant in Glasgow’s West End is niftily luring in the gastropub crowd with exciting menus without scaring off people who just…
Read MoreAn excellent Ecclefechan butter tart recipe
Today we present a delicious recipe for dessert, from French chef, the former owner of the Silver Darling restaurant at Aberdeen harbour. Didier Dejean opened his seafood restaurant The Silver Darling in 1986, having previously worked in Paris before following a colleague to Aberdeen. As the oil industry developed, things changed. ‘Before the oil, Aberdeen was…
Read MoreScots average £250 per month to spend after bills
People living in Scotland have just £250.94 of disposable income each month, less than £10 a day, a study has found. The recent poll, commissioned by Salary Finance, found that after paying out for their rent and mortgage, utility bills, food and other living expenses, just a small amount of ‘spare’ cash is left over…
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