Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Still time to nominate good food and delicious drink
There’s just one month left to enter Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards 2020. Food and drink producers hoping to be recognised at Scotland’s most prestigious celebration of the industry have just one month left to enter – with entries closing on 14 February. The Excellence Awards not only recognise the highest quality produce Scotland…
Read MoreOrcadian whisky dinner to celebrate Burns Night
A Glasgow restaurant has announced an Orcadian Burns Night Whisky Dinner in their multi-award-winning restaurant for Sunday, 26 January. Kickstarting a schedule of events for 2020, seafood restaurant Gamba is continuing its 21st-anniversary celebrations by partnering with Highland Park for a Burns Night like no other. Made with pride on Orkney, Highland Park is made…
Read MoreA Burns Night special from a Michelin-starred chef
One of the world’s leading chefs is coming to Scotland next month to cook a very special dinner. Jason Atherton owns Michelin-starred Pollen Street Social in London and 17 other restaurants in cities including New York, Doha and Shanghai. But on Friday, January 24, he will be in Edinburgh for one night only at Ondine…
Read MoreVoting open for the Eat Game Awards finalists
The race is on to find the finest game creators in the country as voting is underway in the second edition of the national Eat Game Awards. The team behind the Eat Game Awards has been working flat out not only to bring this tasty, nutritious, free range meat to the attention of a wider national…
Read MorePlenty of pluck in Scotland’s turkey industry
Scotland’s small farmers raise, slaughter and prepare their own turkeys. It’s January, and the memories of the festive season are disappearing rapidly into the distance. Gone are the trees and lights, the decorations are down, and the turkey has long since been basted, cooked and eaten. In many ways Christmas encapsulates what my Ethical Carnivore…
Read MoreCharlotte and the chocolate factory
A heady mix of Scotland’s natural flavours combined with a ladleful of indulgence make Charlotte Flower’s chocolates something very special indeed. A quaint cottage just a few steps from the banks of Loch Tay may not be somewhere that you would expect to find a chocolate factory. But then Charlotte Flower, like Willy Wonka, doesn’t…
Read MoreExtra tickets available for KT Tunstall’s Scottish gigs
Scots music star KT Tunstall is set to return to her roots this January with a string of one-off charity gigs around Scotland in celebration of the countdown to Lidl’s 100th store. The week-long Lidl Live tour will see the Suddenly-I-See-singer perform to thousands of fans in towns and cities around Scotland, taking in Aberdeen,…
Read MoreChef creates a new twist on the Burns Supper
One of Scotland’s leading private events chefs has teamed up with Waitrose and WeFiFo to offer Milngavie foodies a fresh twist on the traditional Burns Supper. Following in the footsteps of culinary stars such as BBC MasterChef’s Greg Wallace, Gary Maclean and Jilly McCord, Cater Edinburgh’s Barry Bryson has been handpicked by Waitrose pop up…
Read MoreHistoric Fife golf clubs looking ahead in 2020
A group of historic Fife golf clubs is looking forward to a new decade after celebrating a remarkable year in which some of its best-ever figures were recorded. Links with History, which features a selection of the finest courses in Scotland, confirmed it had seen some of its best year-on-year booking figures during 2019 with…
Read MoreCelebrate Burns Night with a haggis pizza
When Rabbie Burns wrote about the ‘great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race’, chances are he never envisaged haggis on pizza! But this month, in celebration of Burns Night, La Favorita restaurant on Leith Walk in Edinburgh have launched a pizza topped with the traditional Scottish treat in time for Burns Night on 25 January. The 12-inch…
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