Food

Best of 2011: Scottish food producers

The brewers, smokehouses, bakers and cheesemakers on the rise

20 Jan 2012

2011 wasn’t a fun year for small business but food and drink in Scotland continued to make advances with impressive new products, new producers, new markets, growing food festivals, and an increased awareness of the value and importance of local food…

Antony Worrall Thompson says sorry for shoplifting

TV Gossip

9 Jan 2012

Antony Worrall Thompson has apologised following his arrest for shoplifting. The 'Ready Steady Cook' star - who was given a formal caution by police for stealing cheese and wine on five separate occasions in 16 days from a Tesco store in Henley…

Anne Hathaway's dietary difficulties

Celebrity Gossip

27 Aug 2011

Anne Hathaway had "problems" being a vegetarian in London. The 28-year-old actress - who is renowned for her slim physique - admits it hasn't always been easy working in the UK because of her meat-free dietary requirements, but has found the country…

Foodies Festival at 2011 Edinburgh Fringe

3-day food and drink in Holrood Park runs 12 to 14 Aug

10 Aug 2011

For many years, the missing Edinburgh food festival was a void waiting to be filled. After all, it was festival season in August and lots of food was being eaten. And, of course, everywhere else in the country was running food festivals. Five years ago…

Eva Mendes doesn't cook

Celebrity Gossip

5 Jun 2011

Eva Mendes never makes her own meals. The 37-year-old actress - who has been in a relationship with George Augusto for nine years - is hopeless in the kitchen so relies on restaurant food and home deliveries to ensure she gets the nourishment she…

Robert Pattinson too busy to shop

Celebrity Gossip

26 Mar 2011

Robert Pattinson doesn't have time to buy food. The 24-year-old star has little free time because he is in such high demand and he admits he hasn't been to a supermarket for a while. Asked if he still does his own grocery shopping, he said: "I…

Food, with Eivind Aarset, to perform as part of Dialogues festival

The jazz-electronica duo team up with the Norwegian guitarist for an intimate gig at Voodoo Rooms

3 Mar 2011

Jazz experimentalists Food have carved a niche over the past few years in forging ahead with wide-ranging collaborations. The core duo of saxophonist Iain Bellamy and percussionist Thomas Strønen are great practitioners of improvisation, and bring…

A guide to the best cheese shops in Edinburgh

The finest purveyors of Strathdon Blue, Dunlop Cheddar and many more Scottish cheeses

16 Feb 2011

In the popular parlour game of ‘if you had to give something up for life, what would it be?’ (Strictly Come Dancing or X Factor, partner or friends, stilettos or trainers), many have foundered over the choice between cheese or orgasms. You think it’s an…

Love Bites

A show about food, love, and sex blurs the lines between reality and fantasy

9 Aug 2010

As paranoia and dependency take over their relationship, an obsession with eating grows and sex, love and food become interchangeable. Claire and Stephen prove that, while the way to a man’s heart may well be through his stomach, the journey can be…

Kevin Bridges, Derrick May and Green Velvet on Rock Ness 2010 bill

10 Jun 2010

Rock Ness has more to offer than just great DJs and lashings of live music, as Henry Northmore finds out

How to holiday in Scotland: Scottish Travel A-Z

9 Jun 2010

We’re here to persuade you that you don’t need foreign beaches or backpacking tours to make the most of the summer. There’s a world of wonder right on your doorstep, with plenty of Scottish excursions to keep you entertained until autumn. Anna Millar…

Food - Quiet Inlet

21 Apr 2010

(ECM Records) Saxophonist Iain Ballamy’s Food has taken various forms over the years, but this latest edition is a duo with the band’s co-founder, Norwegian percussionist Thomas Strønen, familiar in these parts from collaborations with Phil Bancroft…

Humcrush unites members of Food and Supersilent for Edinburgh Dialogues gig

31 Mar 2010

Part of the Dialogues festival of electronic music, Humcrush make a much-anticipated return to Edinburgh after their last visit to the Bongo Club in 2006. The Norwegian duo consisting of percussionist Thomas Strønen and keyboard player Ståle Storløkken…

Auntie Midgie's Guide To: Scottish Cuisine

10 Sep 2009

What’s best? Things like Scotch beef, Scotch lamb and Scottish salmon are real local delicacies and guaranteed to be of superior taste, protected as they are by strict quality guidelines. And many seaside towns offer locally caught fish that is second…

Bound by the Apron Strings

Well-kent Scottish faces wax nostalgic about their favourite childhood foods in a new book

6 Aug 2009

Sue Lawrence clearly loves the warm waft of nostalgia emerging from the kitchen door. In interviewing over 70 prominent Scots including Gordon Brown, Andy Murray and Gordon Ramsay for her new book she has given them a topic few would be reticent about…

Foodies Festival hits second year

25 Jun 2009

Following its inaugural success last year, the Foodies Festival will return to Edinburgh this summer for a foodie extravaganza in and around Holyrood. Following the pattern of last year’s line-up, this year’s programme boasts demonstrations from…

Café Bayan - Falling into steppe

14 May 2009

Entering Café Bayan, your eye is drawn to an enormous, mauve-toned mural depicting Scottish and Russian luminaries. In the Scots corner, Burns; in the Russian corner, Pushkin and Tchaikovsky; and, floating incongruously between the two, a tiny depiction…

List Eating & Drinking Guide 2009 launched

14 May 2009

The launch event for the 16th annual List Eating & Drinking Guide celebrated the year’s finest dining experiences on offer in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The event, at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, saw four excellent restaurants receive Eating…

Awards herald publication of The List Eating & Drinking Guide 2009

29 Apr 2009

As The List’s annual Eating & Drinking guide hits the shelves, we reveal our choices for the best of the bunch.

Eating out trends: What’s cooking?

16 Apr 2009

Right now we’re busy writing up the late entries, dotting ‘i’s and crossing ‘t’s to get this year’s Eating & Drinking Guide finished. A year ago we revealed over 100 new entries and everyone took it as a sign of a buoyant scene. This year we have over…

Side Dishes - Food News

5 Mar 2009

● The List has teamed up again with Taste of Edinburgh, the high-profile food festival at the end of May, to find out readers’ current favourite places to eat out. Vote online for your favourite restaurant in either Edinburgh or Glasgow and you’ll earn…

Food: Currying flavour

1 Dec 2008

When the late foreign secretary Robin Cook called the chicken tikka masala ‘Britain’s true national dish’, it was the moment the curry arrived. Until then seen as an ethnic food which had been brought over by Indian immigrants during the 1960s, its…

Food Listings

1 Dec 2008

Mother India’s Café Mother India's Café, part of the well-known Mother India group of 'home-style' Indian restaurants doesn't take bookings, so be prepared to wait a few minutes for a table. But the delay is worth it. There’s a genuine buzz about the…

Scottish chef Martin Wishart to open second restaurant on Loch Lomond

27 Nov 2008

Happy days for food lovers following news that Michelin-starred Scottish chef Martin Wishart will open his second restaurant on 5 December at Cameron House, marking a return to a hotel where he worked successfully as a chef de partie early in his career…

Eat, drink and be merry: Christmas food

13 Nov 2008

‘Christmas dinner on a budget is easy, and you don’t have to end up with a can of Spam and a tub of out-of-date potato salad, either. It should be a special meal; it should feel special, and the secret to that is really simple – get a table set…

Alive Alive O'

13 Nov 2008

In Glasgow's fair city, where the restaurants are pretty, and the Ubiquitous Chip is the best-known of all … this rhyming stuff's hard. Anyway, November is shellfish month at the venerable eatery, as their Alive Alive O’ festival celebrates cockles and…

Stocks rise again

16 Oct 2008

Just under a year ago, 24-year-old James Stocks emerged from nowhere to become a serious player in Scotland’s fine-dining scene with the establishment of a signature restaurant at Balbirnie House Hotel in Fife. Few had heard of him, but his CV boasted…

Changing places

2 Oct 2008

When a restaurant location starts to see a few different tenants in a short span of time it gets a bit of a reputation. ‘Bad site,’ many will mutter. Not necessarily true, however. Of course some locations are harder work, but also in play are things…

Side dishes: News to nibble on

2 Oct 2008

Leven’s is the latest opening from Thai Lemongrass and Time 4 Thai operator Carole Tong, offering what’s described as ‘Thai Fusion Cuisine’ in a highly designed setting boasting moody purple lighting, sparkly wall paper and sleek wood. The menu is…

Food for thought: Michael Caines

Chef and entrepreneur

2 Oct 2008

In the food trade we eat in a strange way. I don’t know any chef who’s a good eater when it comes to the discipline of eating: your work time is people’s mealtime.The biggest problem is that because you don’t remember sitting down to have a meal you…

We Love Glasgow

1 Oct 2008

Roddy Woomble 'My favourite place in Glasgow’s a restaurant called No. Sixteen. It’s a little neighbourhood bistro of the kind you find more easily in European cities than in Scottish ones - an unpretentious place with incredible food. It’s a…

Getting stuck in

14 Aug 2008

Get your tastebuds ready for the launch of Gourmet Glasgow, which offers a rich platter of culinary delights in conjunction with Scotland with Style. The event will celebrate the city's fine foods and restaurants, with over 50 eateries offering special…

Food & drink - Good & plenty

17 Jul 2008

Connect offers no end of culinary goodness, as Malcolm Jack discovers when he peruses the festival's extensive larder and speaks to the producers of every food delight you could possibly imagine, from oysters to sticky toffee pudding. Judging by…

Food For Thought: Jonathan Wilkes

22 May 2008

My eating routine when I’m working is shocking. When I’m on tour, I grab what I can when I can. For breakfast I’ll have a bacon sandwich, followed by a club sandwich for lunch, so it’s bread after bread after bread. As much as I love my bread there’s…

Outdoor food festival returns to Edinburgh

13 Mar 2008

Taste-buds at the ready! Following the success of last year’s festival, Taste of Edinburgh is set to return in May with an even bigger line-up. As well as having the opportunity to sample taster dishes from 20 of Edinburgh’s top restaurants…

Chop Chop dumplings set for supermarket sales

25 Feb 2008

Edinburgh restaurateur Roy King, who runs Chop Chop, has announced that the dumplings for which they are famous are now being produced for sale in Sainsbury's. He insisted on maintaining his policy of 'fresh ingredients only and no pre-cooking…

Ever So Sweet launch party

17 Jan 2008

Now that we’ve got your attention, how exactly to describe this event? There are cakes, there are bands, there’s an auction. The cakes are very, very, very good, one of the bands is called Dick Dangerous & the Love Bastards (we’re, like, so there), and…

Piece of cake? Recipes deemed too tricky

12 Sep 2007

A Government study has found that the recipes created by Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson are much more tricky than those cooked up by their male counterparts. The research, which looked at the readability of recipes from popular celebrity chefs, found…

Life & Style - Eating & Drinking Guide sneak preview

A taste of things to come

10 Apr 2007

The 14th edition of our annual Eating & Drinking Guide will be given away free with the next issue of The List. Here we offer a small sample of what to expect from more than 800 completely revised entries, excerpting reviews of some of the most…

Working lunch

It’s New Year. Time for a lunchtime revolution. Le

17 Jan 2007

Lunch can be a rushed affair, that precious hour or half hour of down time all too often descending into a mad dash to the local supermarket or chemist chain to shell out cash you can ill afford on unpleasant meal deals, composed of chilly sandwiches…