Food and Drink
Delight as Mull spirits company takes bronze award
An Isle of Mull based spirits company has won an international taste award for its gin. Whitetail Gin, based at Tiroran, has been awarded bronze in the World Gin Awards. Distilled in collaboration with Charles Maxwell of Thames Distillers, Whitetail Gin is a bronze winner in the UK London Dry Gin category. With over 4000…
Read MoreMark Burns Night with a dram in a beautiful glass
Beat those January blues by celebrating Burns Night and enjoy a wee dram of whisky in the official whisky tasting glass. If January feels as though it’s dragging then why not cheer yourself up by celebrating Burns Night this year on Friday 25 January? Spend an evening enjoying fine food, poetry and dancing and don’t forget…
Read MoreThey’re in the pink with colour changing gin
A Scots distillery is spreading the love this Valentine’s Day, offering a quirky alternative to the traditional gifting of roses, with its unique colour-changing gin. Until the end of March, every 50cl bottle of Edinburgh-based distillery, The Old Curiosity rose gin will come with a free bag of hand-picked, pink rose petals to perfectly garnish…
Read MoreGlasgow ready for first Gin To My Tonic event
Tickets are going fast for the first The Gin To My Tonic Show, which comes to Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus in March. Taking place from 15 to 17 March, The Gin To My Tonic Show is not your typical gin event – be inspired and entertained with this ultimate gin-centric experience, where you can sample a…
Read MoreCelebrating Burns Night doesn’t have to cost a fortune
A supermarket has launched a special Burns Night specialbuy range. From Sunday, 20 January, customers can pick up a bargain from ALDI’s Burns Night Specialbuy range, in a deal worth over £300,000 to ALDI’s Scottish suppliers. For the first time Aldi will be selling the Simon Howie Chieftain Haggis (908g) for only £2.99. This ceremonial…
Read MoreLast call made for Food & Drink Awards entries
A last call is being made for entries from businesses for the North East Scotland Food & Drink Awards 2019. The team behind the only food and drink producer awards in the region are reminding firms to enter, before the deadline on Monday 28 January 2019. The awards have been running for more than 25…
Read MoreWould you go nuts for haggis doughnuts?
Burns Night is almost upon us – and a London restaurant has created a haggis doughnut. In honour of Scotland’s most famous poet Robert Burns, Roast Restaurant, at The Floral Hall, Stoney Street, London, has created two special Burns menus. Those dining in the restaurant can partake of a three-course menu (£60) and optional whisky…
Read MoreLast call for the hospitality firms to join trade event
The organisers of ScotHot, Scotland’s leading hospitality trade event, have issued a final call for exhibitors after a bumper sales year. ScotHot, which is attended by more than 7,000 key decision makers from the Scottish food, drink, hospitality and tourism industries, has just 20% remaining exhibitor capacity for this year’s event. Taking place on 13…
Read MoreScottish Game Fair will return in July with new sponsor
The GWCT Scottish Game Fair has started the new year in style by announcing an exciting new partnership with NFU Mutual. The leading rural insurer has signed a three-year deal to become headline sponsor of Scotland’s largest Game Fair, which is held in the stunning Scone Palace Parklands in Perthshire and will take place this…
Read MoreCampaign bids to bring the world a haggis emoji
Scots all over the world are being called upon to support a campaign to bring Scotland’s national dish into the language of emojis. In what has been designated The Year of Haggis and with Burns Night just over a week away, Scotland’s most awarded haggis makers, McCaskie Butchers, are launching a campaign for the creation…
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