Posts Tagged ‘venison’
Winton celebrates with feast fit for a castle
Winton Castle, the business events and wedding venue in East Lothian, has just celebrated more than 500 years of history and changing back to being called Winton Castle. It only adopted the more modest name of Winton House in the 1960s, and ‘once a castle, always a castle’. Winton Castle was a stronghold of the…
Read MoreButchery at Balgove
Balgove Larder is currently running a range of butchery masterclasses from its steak barn and farm shop near St Andrews. In an effort to keep pace with current food trends for sustainability and provenance, I signed up and found myself driving over the Forth Bridge on a glorious Saturday morning while mentally preparing myself to…
Read MoreWines to take home from Contini
PETER RANSCOMBE IT’S a situation that will ring bells with most diners – after enjoying a delicious bottle of wine with your meal, you quickly scribble down the name from the label so you can try it again at home. You search high and low on the shelves of your local bottle shop but, to…
Read MoreThe Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants feature eight Scottish eateries
Eight restaurants in Scotland have been included in The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants supplement, which is published on Sunday February 5. The list, which features in monthly food magazine The Dish, is compiled by a judging panel which includes Jamie Oliver, who writes a column for the magazine, Antonio Carluccio and Nick Jones, the founder…
Read MoreHello again
Last week I packed may family up and we headed into the wilds of Highland Perthshire for a family break. Ignoring gloomy weather men, predicting gales and copious rainfall, I took the kids cycles and promised them we would have fun no matter what the weather. Well I needn’t have worried, Scotland came up trumps…
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