Eating Out
Mark Chinese New Year with TV chefs Julie and Jimmy
Chinese New Year – the year of the pig – is just around the corner and will be celebrated across Scotland with a variety of exhibitions, concerts, dinners and film screenings. This year TV Chefs Jimmy Lee (Lychee Oriental) and Julie Lin (Julie’s Kopitiam) who first hit our screens together on STV to present culinary…
Read MoreRestaurants lining up their Burns Night treats
Two Scots restaurants are getting ready for some special Burns Night celebrations. After the sell-out success of the event last year, Wedgwood the Restaurant, at 265 Canongate on the Royal Mile, is once again teaming up with The Real Mary King’s Close for a Burns Supper like no other. Diners can enjoy a contemporary Scottish…
Read MoreThe best dishes of the year on the one menu
Get your glands salivating – it’s time to recap the best dishes featured at Six by Nico restaurants in the year gone past. In his latest offering Chef Nico Simeone is inviting the public to vote on the six dishes they enjoyed most in 2018 to create a six- course tasting menu that will include…
Read MoreChef’s top food tip after the festive excesses
We’re all now getting over our over-indulgences after the festive period. The head chef of Thomas Wallace of Café 52, at 52 The Green, Aberdeen, tells Scottish Field about his favourite meal to enjoy after over-indulging at Christmas. What’s your favourite January dish? I like eating something lighter in January after all the food at…
Read MoreRestaurant to open its second site in Glasgow
A Korean restaurant in Glasgow city centre has announced it is to open a second restaurant site in Glasgow’s trendy West End. The name, which is pronounced as ‘bee-beem-bahp’ is named after the Korean comfort food – a bowl of warm white rice topped with vegetables and chilli pepper paste, soy sauce, or fermented…
Read MorePublic house opens its doors to the public
Public House by Nico, Chef Nico Simeone’s much-anticipated new gastropub restaurant, is now open. Occupying a prime position at 333 Great Western Road in Glasgow, Public House by Nic’ brings modern British gastropub cuisine to Glasgow’s West End, under the direction of Nico. Following in the success of his award-winning sister restaurants Six by Nico…
Read MoreEnjoy breakfast with Santa Claus and his elves
Santa is taking time out of his busy Christmas schedule to enjoy a magical breakfast with families at The Bridge Inn at Ratho. Make it a Christmas to remember and bring your little ones to meet Santa and his elves for fun and games, craft activities and photos. Santa will delight the boys and girls…
Read MoreThe delicious food at Dine is fine and dandy
As we walk up the steps to enter Dine, passing the unusual moss covered wall emblazoned with the letters D.I.N.E. the 1980s Ottowan classic D.I.S.C.O. takes up residence in my brain and threatens to ruin what I was hoping would be an excellent lunch. Thankfully there was much inside to distract me from this unwanted…
Read MoreScotland’s biggest chippie opens its doors in Edinburgh
Scotland’s biggest fish and chip restaurant has opened on Edinburgh’s Victoria Street. The 300 – cover Bertie’s Restaurant and Bar in Edinburgh’s Old Town is the group’s first foray beyond the Italian food markets, having opened their first restaurant in 1970 in the Leith neighbourhood. The 11’000 sq.ft restaurant in the former St John’s Church offers…
Read MoreDhoom is well worth swinging by for fine Indian food
A new Indian “streatery” and cocktail bar is creating a buzz in the centre of town in Dunfermline. The first of its kind in Fife, Dhoom offers a 100 cover restaurant serving authentic tapas-style street food from all regions of India, and is the first in the UK to use Indian spices such as coriander…
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