Location: set your location

Ignite

Looking for a restaurant to impress that special someone this Valentine's? Beautifully furnished, richly colourful and atmospheric, Ignite is loved by just about everyone. View our hitlisted review and our critical acclaim. Book now to reserve your place and Ignite your passion this year.

Side Dishes

  • Source: The List (Issue 609)
  • Date: 7 August 2008
(0)
Beanscene

News to nibble on

Gourmet Glasgow, the annual promotion run by Glasgow Restaurateurs Association, kicks off this week and runs through to Sunday 31 August. Over 40 restaurants around the city are participating in the Dine Around scheme, which features fixed priced menus from £15, with a free dram of Auchentoshan whisky for all meals booked online. Participating restaurants and booking details can be found at www.graonline.co.uk. In addition, events such as themed meals, cooking demos and tasting sessions are being held by member restaurants including Alla Turca, pictured.

Food muscles its way into Edinburgh’s hectic August programme with the Foodies at the Festival event held in and around the Sheraton Hotel on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 August. A clutch of top-level chefs from in and around the city, including Martin Wishart, Tom Kitchin and Jeff Bland, are appearing in the chef’s demonstration theatre. There’s more at www.foodiesfestival.com.

With the news last week of the Beanscene chain going into administration, you can get an insight into the ups and downs of these food empires in a new book by Pierre Levicky, founder of Pierre Victoire. Cooking Life recalls the rise and collapse of the chain which began in Edinburgh’s Victoria Street and encompassed 140 restaurants at its peak. Self-published (it couldn’t really be any other way) and highly personalised, the book conveys the craziness of the heady days, with Levicky taking a dig at the bean-counters involved as PV foundered. It’s available from Levicky’s new venture, Chez Pierre, in Edinburgh’s New Town, priced £14.90.

More: Life & style, Food & drink (Life & style), Cooking Life, Foodies at the Festival, Glasgow Restaurateurs Association, Gourmet Glasgow, Jeff Bland, Martin Wishart, Pierre Levicky, Pierre Victoire, Side Dishes, Tom Kitchin

Comments

No comments yet – be the first.

To post a comment you'll first need to log in: Forgotten your password?

Log in

Not registered? Sign up – it only takes a minute.

RSS feed of these comments