Life & style

In The Frame

2 Apr 2009

A glut of ceramic centres has sprung up recently, offering lots of creative fun – but at a price. If you can only run to a pottery painting session every few months or for a birthday treat, there’s no need for the kids to miss out on a regular dose of…

Parklife

2 Apr 2009

With a family ticket to the average theme park costing close to £100, it’s worth remembering that a day out at one of Scotland’s country parks can offer just as much fun – for no money at all. None of the parks listed here charges for admission or…

Beach Babies

2 Apr 2009

Portobello Back in the swinging 60s Portie was a popular seaside destination. After getting a little rough around the edges in 70s and 80s, it has once again become an enjoyable jaunt for visitors and locals alike. Walk along the beach, play on the…

Easter Eggcitement 2009

2 Apr 2009

Chicks, Eggs & Bunnies Week Mon 6–Thu 9 Apr, 10–11am. £8 per day. Imagination Workshop, 136 Marchmont Road, 0131 466 0148. Make a chick, egg or bunny in this Easter-themed workshop. Price includes a chocolate egg. Ages 6+. Easter Egg-citement…

Catching a View

2 Apr 2009

Dolphin watching Bottlenose dolphins are plentiful in the Moray Firth and the best land-bound spot to see them is the Black Isle. The Dolphin and Seal Visitor Centre consists of a hut with interactive displays and simulated dolphin noises, so stretch…

Behaviour

2 Apr 2009

Theatre, it’s fair to say, suffers from an image problem. Despite being an utterly flexible and inventive art form, most people still associate ‘theatre’ with a red plush seat and the passive consumption of a story for two hours (perhaps pausing briefly…

Crabshakk

2 Apr 2009

Nestled between the brightly coloured Kelvingrove café and a launderette, Crabshakk’s exterior exudes a calm, grown up sophistication. Painted in battleship grey, and lacking any signage, it puts one in mind of a word of mouth club or private members…

First Word - Carl Cox

2 Apr 2009

What’s the first record you ever bought? It was in 1975. It was Tamla Motown, it cost 75p from HMV in Sutton and was Diana Ross, ‘Love Hangover’. When was the last time you were chatted up? Last weekend actually, very nice. I don’t really go out…

Taste Test - Delis

2 Apr 2009

Earthy 33–41 Ratcliffe Terrace, Edinburgh, 0131 667 2967, www.earthy.co.uk Mon–Fri 8.30am–7.30pm; Sat 8.30am–6pm; Sun 10am–5pm. This indie supermarket sells fairly-traded, local, seasonal and organic produce, from in and around Edinburgh. Choose…

Setting the stage - Edinburgh International Festival

2 Apr 2009

EIF artistic director, Jonathan Mills, referred to the ‘menace and magic’ of this year’s festival programme, as he unveiled the highlights last week. In keeping with 2009’s Homecoming celebrations the Edinburgh International Festival launched works rich…

Side Dishes - Food News

2 Apr 2009

For over-the-top decor and big show-off budgets, Glasgow’s eat and drink scene has no peer. Now G1 group has taken over the old Hallion on Bath Street. Hummingbird opened last weekend to a mix of cooing and guffaws at the sheer, brazen vision of the…

We Like

2 Apr 2009

● Did anyone think CSI could recover from the loss of the mighty Grissom (William Petersen)? Well, the equally mercurial Laurence Fishburne has stepped into his sizeable shoes and with a few stumbles (dipping your tie in burnt corpse is not a good look…

Darwin and Evolution

2 Apr 2009

As part of Darwin 200 (a dual celebration of the 200th anniversary of the naturalist's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking and controversial On the Origin of Species), Kelvingrove have a new exhibition opening this…

WIN a luxury self-catering adventure break to Perthshire with VisitScotland Adventure Pass

31 Mar 2009

VisitScotland has teamed up with Equazen to give you an action-packed adventure break in Perthshire, Scotland. Equazen produce healthy fish oil products, which will help keep you fighting fit and ready for Scotland’s Great Outdoors. WIN an…

In a League of Their Own - the best sports movies ever

19 Mar 2009

The release this month of controversial documentary Tyson and Michael Sheen football drama The Damned Utd reminded us just how unreliable the sports movie can be. So here, in no particular order, are some gold medal contenders and some first round exits

Gut Feeling - The science bit

19 Mar 2009

What follows is an interview with Jane Ross who was in charge of the colonic hydrotherapy treatment that I write about in Gut Feeling). In order to support the feature with more in depth and scientific information about the digestive system and colonic…

Gut feeling: The science bit - Part two

19 Mar 2009

What follows is an interview with Anna-Lise Miller, one of Scotland’s leading colon therapists and trainers (visit www.ipch.org.uk and www.colonictraining.co.uk for more information). Jane Ross the nurse and owner of Nevo Health who I interviewed here…

Gut feeling

19 Mar 2009

This may sound strange, but for as long as I can remember I have always wanted colonic irrigation. Colon cleansing, or colon hydrotherapy, uses water and/or herb enemas to remove accumulations of waste from the walls of the intestine. As a middle-aged…

Doctor Who - The making of a time lord

19 Mar 2009

TIMELINE Nov 1963 Doctor Who is devised as an educational science fiction show to appeal to viewers of all ages and is given an evening time slot. The screening of the first episode is overshadowed by a power cut in parts of the country and the…

Tony's Table

19 Mar 2009

Tony Singh likes to keep it local. From the front door of Tony’s Table (the site of the old Cosmo restaurant, more recently Circus Wine Bar & Grill) you can see the outdoor terrace of Oloroso, a place of heady views, sharp suits, clever cocktails and…

Taste Test - Sandwiches

19 Mar 2009

Pret a Manger www.pret.com for info Although they did once make the mistake of marketing a tongue sandwich for Valentine’s Day, Simon Hargraves, Pret’s Director of Food and Communication, admits that the classics always sell the best, with their…

LGBT Arts Festival Weekend

19 Mar 2009

CREATIVE FESTIVAL LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Edinburgh, Fri 20–Sun 22 Mar Scotland’s capital can lay proud boast to being the only city in the UK to have its own dedicated health and wellbeing centre for LGBT folks, which runs…

Side Dishes - Food News

News to Nibble On

19 Mar 2009

Glasgow Green’s West brewery, Khushi’s Diner, Appetite for Ayrshire & Arran, The Larder a 160-page magazine covering all aspects of the local food scene free in the next issue of The List.

A prize winning piece - Competition level sandwiches

19 Mar 2009

Iwan Sasaki of Govan’s little sandwich deli Cherry & Heather Fine Food recently walked away with the winning entry in three of the four categories of the Scottish heats of the British Sandwich Designer of the Year competition. His own favourite entry…

Familiar Eating: Three places on first name terms

19 Mar 2009

Guy’s 24 Candleriggs, Glasgow, 0141 552 1114, www.guysrestaurant.co.uk Guy Cowan spent time travelling the world cooking for film stars before settling back home in Glasgow with this friendly and assured venue in the Merchant City. Accumulated…

Three to try: Body Cleansers

19 Mar 2009

Oil Pulling A traditional Indian Ayurveda remedy, also known as oil swishing, involves rinsing the mouth with either sesame or sunflower oil for 15-20 minutes on an empty stomach to activate enzymes that remove toxins from the blood. Also rumoured to…

Redwood - Hail to the chef

5 Mar 2009

Democracy can be a beautiful thing, as recent events and a certain Mr Obama have shown. Edinburgh has its own little piece of democratisation to celebrate, as high-end private caterer Annette Sprague has backed away from cooking for boardrooms and…

Resident Evil - Capcom interview

5 Mar 2009

Videogames have delved into the world of horror for a good number of years. Haunting Ground, The Suffering, Jericho, Alone in the Dark and many more have fought for the crown, but Resident Evil is the daddy of them all. On its launch back in 1996 it was…

Street Smarts

5 Mar 2009

This week, Goodstead and Oddities, both much loved Edinburgh streetwear boutiques, are shutting their flagship stores and opening new premises. Currently, people tend to assume that any change is related to the economy, so it’s refreshing to find two…

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 for Thought - Lola Jaye

5 Mar 2009

This is a subject close to my heart. For a fantasy breakfast, a fry up. Organic mushrooms, scrambled eggs, bacon – with no fat on – and maybe a sausage. Nice, lovely cherry tomatoes, yum. Oh, and a glass of Coke. My ideal lunch? I got back from…

Horror Games Roundup

5 Mar 2009

With the launch of Resident Evil 5 Henry Northmore looks at why it’s a great time to be a fan of digital terror Silent Hill: Homecoming PS3/Xbox 360 (Konami) ●●●● Silent Hill has always been one of the most disturbing titles on the market…

A Full Larder

5 Mar 2009

Local produce from every region of Scotland is the focus of a brand new publication from The List. The Larder will be free with the issue of The List out on 1 April, and in bookshops priced £7.99. The Larder will be the most authoritative, up-to-date…

Last Word: Rob Da Bank

19 Feb 2009

First record you ever bought The theme tune to ET by John Williams. It made me cry! Last time you were chatted up I’ve gone beyond realising when that’s happening after 18 years with my wife. I just think people are being pleasant. First…

Side dishes - Food News

19 Feb 2009

Following in the footsteps of established ‘blind’ restaurants in Berlin, Paris and London, the Grill Room in Edinburgh’s Sheraton Hotel is now offering a quarterly Sensory Dining meal, with a full five-course meal plus accompanying wines served to…

Food for Thought - Nell Nelson

19 Feb 2009

Eat Well With Nell has just been published, so I’ve got to look well at the moment! Food really plays a huge part in giving you loads of energy, clear wrinkle-free skin, strong nails and glossy hair and the recipes are all geared to making you look and…

Gregor ‘G-Man’ James: Last Word

5 Feb 2009

First record you ever bought Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock ‘Get On the Dancefloor’. I was nine years old and about to discover dance music. My second record was ‘Stakker Humanoid’. Last time you were chatted up In Germany, she was 50. I refused but…

Guilty Lily

22 Jan 2009

Guilty Lily is not, nor does it aspire to be, a gastropub. That label, for many good reasons (not least the ugliness of the name), hasn’t really made much headway north of the border. Guilty Lily is a local pub serving real ale, bowls of olives, decent…

The death of budget travel?

22 Jan 2009

We must have known that it wasn’t going to last, and that future generations would look back on the early years of the 21st century as a lost golden age of rock-bottom-cheap travel, when you could zip to Paris for a weekend in almost less time, and for…

Last word: Amanda Hamilton

22 Jan 2009

Best known for detoxing the nation, nutritionist and television presenter Amanda Hamilton stops by to talk Morten Harket, Buddhist retreats and extra-terrestrials

Food For Thought

22 Jan 2009

I’m delighted Burns Night is falling on a Sunday. During the week, my eating consists of breakfast on First Scotrail, lunch in the STV canteen and then dinner with whatever is left by the rest of the family when I eventually get home. However, Sunday…

Take Three: Pubs with some shining dining

22 Jan 2009

MacSorley’s Music Bar 42 Jamaica Street, Glasgow, 0141 248 8581, www.macsorleys.com From the owners of the Sub Club is the ‘Sub Pub’, an old boozer turned boho hang-out. Tatty round the edges, it pumps out an indie dominated soundtrack and packs…

Preview 2009 - Technology

8 Jan 2009

If 2008 was anything to go by, 2009 should bring many great techy things to our lives. Firefox 3 made everything easier and better as domestic broadband got cheaper and faster. The house of innovation that is Google will be hard pushed in 2009 to better…

Floatariums

8 Jan 2009

‘I usually take sessions twice a month,’ says an amiable Roger Tyler, co-owner of Glasgow’s Willow Trading Rooms, and home to Glasgow’s only flotation tank. ‘Flotation tanks,’ he explains, ‘provide a unique experience for each person, the feeling of…

Preview 2009 - Food

8 Jan 2009

There’s a general expectation that we’ll be reporting on closures rather than openings in 2009, but don’t be so sure. Judging by the stream of new places in the last few months – far outweighing the number of farewells – doom and gloom clearly isn’t on…

Take three: Where to get your health kicks

8 Jan 2009

● Grassroots 20 Woodlands Road and 93-97 St Georges Road, Glasgow, www.grassrootsorganic.com Glasgow’s premier wholefoods location, with an excellent deli, takeaway and nearby sit-in café-diner that offers a mix of vegetarian and vegan food with…

Two Fat Ladies set for staff role reversal

8 Jan 2009

The award-winning Two Fat Ladies at the Buttery has announced plans for a day of role reversal at a special fundraising event in aid of Quarriers, Bridge of Weir on Mon 26 Jan. Front of house staff will don their chefs’ hats in the kitchen, while…

Culinary year

11 Dec 2008

Donald Reid digests the culinary year in view. That the most widely used phrase to describe the current economic downturn has a culinary connotation is a crumb of comfort to the restaurant world. You can’t dwell on the credit crunch for long without…

Taste Test - Christmas cake alternatives

11 Dec 2008

Stollen Margiotta, Edinburgh, www.margiotta.co.uk; also available at the Glasgow and Edinburgh Christmas markets, £4.69 per cake. A traditional German bread-like fruitcake, this loaf represents baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes. A strong…

Side Dishes

11 Dec 2008

Just two months ago we featured an interview with an ambitious young chef, James Stocks, who was about to open his own place in Edinburgh just a few months after revelations of an over-egged CV had led to his resignation from his high-profile post at…

Food For Thought

11 Dec 2008

Normally, I’m off out for a swim before my daughter Heidi wakes up, so breakfast doesn’t happen, and by the time I’ve paused for breath, it’s lunch. This typically involves miso soup or a vanilla bean and honey smoothie, along with a brie, grape and…

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe department

27 Nov 2008

As a child, Kirstin Innes always wanted to go to Narnia. Instead, she got the next best thing: a whole day backstage at the Lyceum Theatre as they try and bring that world to life.

Happy when it rains

27 Nov 2008

Going on holiday in Scotland? In the winter? Ach, you’ll have heard the jokes. You might have made some of them yourself. No, it probably won’t be that sunny. Or warm. However, as the pound plummets abroad and air fares shoot up, holidaying at home is…

R34 at India of Inchinnan

27 Nov 2008

Stand on the observation deck at Glasgow Airport, cast your eyes over the runway towards the mossy rise of the Campsie Hills and you will see a large white building. This is R34 at India of Inchinnan, a restored Art Deco factory where tyres were made…

Food For Thought

27 Nov 2008

I am on tour at the moment, and with all the travelling and late nights, we have to look after ourselves. There are eight of us on the bus, and after several years, we have fine tuned the rider so that it is a good balance of healthy food that you…

Side Dishes

27 Nov 2008

Glengoyne Distillery by Killearn is hosting a free Christmas Food and Drink event from 10.30am on Saturday 6 December, featuring Edenmill farm shop’s barrel smokers, beer from WEST and Brewdog, cooking demos from Monachyle Mhor’s Tom Lewis and lots of…

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…

New venue brings downtown New York to Edinburgh

19 Nov 2008

Edinburgh’s art scene has another new addition. The Bowery on Roxburgh Place in the Southside, opened last Saturday and takes its name from one of the famous city's hippest streets. The venue aims to replicate the quirky and semi mod attitude of the…

Lost in Fiction

13 Nov 2008

It’s been eight years since the much-missed John Smith’s bookshop on Byres Road closed its doors and turned into a branch of Starbucks. At the time, many residents of Glasgow’s West End saw it as another, depressing, sign of the times. John Smith’s…

Calistoga Central

13 Nov 2008

The first hurdle to clear is that this is an American restaurant that doesn’t serve burgers. The best explanation of this is that it’s not an American restaurant but Californian. Calistoga has been around in Edinburgh since 2004 on St Leonards Street…

Taste Test - White beers

13 Nov 2008

Black Isle Organic Wheat Beer, Colomba, Grolsch Weizen, Konig Ludwig, Hefe Weizen, Weihenstephaner Dunkelweiss

A bluffer’s guide to Thanksgiving

13 Nov 2008

Call it the Americanisation of Britain, call it another excuse for a slap up meal, but Thanksgiving has grown in popularity. Celebrated on the last Thursday of November, it’s akin to a grown up Christmas without the gift buying or wrestling with…

Yo, ho . . . ho?

13 Nov 2008

Yeah, we know. Christmas is the last thing on your mind. The economy is in crisis, you’re worried about your mortgage/rent/job/bank account/pet stockbroker. And it’s November. However, the festive season is looming like a tinsel-bedecked freight train…

The Christmas crunch: Shopping on a budget

13 Nov 2008

The stock market’s in turmoil, the housing market’s throwing a strop and the price of bread is skyrocketing. Not ideal conditions for celebrating our annual festival of excess and gluttony. Don’t worry, though, The List is here to help. Ahead of our…

Tinsel towns: Glasgow and Edinburgh Winter Festivals

13 Nov 2008

Kirstin Innes takes a look at the free activities going on in both cities over the festive season. Ah, remember back when the civic contribution to the festive effort started and ended with a couple of lightbulb angels hanging off the lampposts, and…

Side Dishes

13 Nov 2008

Earthy Foods & Goods, opened in Edinburgh’s Southside earlier this year, has introduced online shopping with a home delivery service. Now the vast majority of lines in the store – which focus principally on good food producers in the Lothians, Borders…

Have a crafty Christmas: Ethical Christmas shopping

13 Nov 2008

Ethical elf Anna Docherty, visits the one-stop-shop for a guilt-free Christmas. Christmas comes but once a year and so do those niggling feelings of guilt about getting a real tree, not recycling your wrapping paper, or omitting to get charity Christmas…

Take Three: Regional redoubts

13 Nov 2008

Dakhin 89 Candleriggs, Glasgow 0141 553 2585, www.dakhin.com Not just another Glasgow curry house but a discreet Merchant City venue dedicated to the food and cooking of south India, with dosas as a mainstay, some lovely seafood dishes from Kerela…

Taste test - Chicken Tikka Masala

30 Oct 2008

McLeish Brothers, Lidl, Mother India, Tesco, Caledonian Curry Company, Marks & Spencer

Side Dishes

30 Oct 2008

● Agua Restaurant has been re-launched with a seafood theme under head chef John-Paul Persighetti. For anyone tracking the oyster index, six west coast bivalves are doing well at £9.50. Prawns, mussels, cockles and crab also feature at the new crustacea…

Food for thought

Hardeep Singh Kohli

30 Oct 2008

Food's a very important part of my life. I can't begin to tell you how much. I'm notoriously bad at eating breakfast, yet ironically I'm obsessed with it, to the extent that my next book is going to be about breakfast. I will have a decent lunch, and…

Take three: Cinematastic cafés

30 Oct 2008

Café Royal Oyster Bar 17a West Register Street, Edinburgh, 0131 556 4124 This venerable Victorian fish restaurant tucked off Princes Street appeared in the 1981 Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, although despite the movie's Scottish connections it…

The Rutland Hotel

16 Oct 2008

Once upon a time Edinburgh was slightly superior. Now the Glasgwegification of the capital has swaggered out of George Street and onto the West End. Nose onto Princes Street, with its tantalising views of the Castle, Calton Hill and Edinburgh’s historic…

Christmas meal

16 Oct 2008

Let’s face it, someone’s got to book the office Christmas meal. Lots of brownie points if you get it right. Lots of reindeer manure if you get it wrong. The place Try to find a restaurant with a private room or a private area. A large party can…

GSA shop

16 Oct 2008

‘You know the sort of thing. We call it Mackintrash, or Mockintosh.’ Cathy Randall is laughing as she tries to diplomatically describe the kind of thing she definitely doesn’t want in the newly opened Glasgow School of Art shop. Shoppers will just have…

Side Dishes

16 Oct 2008

Sith (pronounced ‘shee’ – Gaelic for ‘peace’) is a new cafe at 459 Dumbarton Road just around the corner from Partick Underground station in Glasgow. Run by two women with strong connections in the Gaelic and Gay/LGBT communtities, it incorporates a…

Food For Thought

16 Oct 2008

My eating habits are the worst you can imagine. I often begin my day at 2am when I start making bread. I’ll grab a five-minute break for a coffee and one of the brezel (pretzels) we make. I have a sort-of breakfast at 9am – seven hours after I got up…

Patrick Richardson - Reports from Beyond

16 Oct 2008

TRAVEL BOOK The best travel writing is much more than just writing about travel, something this hugely experienced journeyman doesn’t seem to realise despite a lifetime of wanderlust. This glossy coffee table effort is subtitled ‘A Journey Through…

Air apparent

2 Oct 2008

I am so stupid. I’m shuffling forward on a bench in a King Air plane above Hollister, California. Only now, at 15,000 feet, after a quarter of an hour of shivery anticipation, and a mere stride from an open door to the sky, do I realise the implications…

Summer wine

2 Oct 2008

‘Authentic Fado tonight!’ the waiter announced, as I peeped inside his restaurant on my first night in the city. I was pulled in and fed with espedatas, huge fish kebabs, just off the chargrill, while serenaded gravely by folk ballads. ‘The Fado songs…

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…

Taste test - Tea

2 Oct 2008

China Green Tea from Dragonfly Tea, Happiness Tea from Today Was Fun, Yunnan from Twinings Light Classics range, Yerba Maté from Mr Scruff’s Make Us a Brew Tea Company, Rose Tea from Brewhaha, White Tea from Tea Tree Tea

Picture perfect

2 Oct 2008

Artists have been invited to submit work for next year’s Jolomo Awards, which gives creatives the chance to win one of the UK’s largest privately funded painting prizes. Those applying must live and work in Scotland, have studied at a Scottish…

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…

BloodRayne II: Deliverance

18 Sep 2008

The name Uwe Boll may well strike fear into many a gamer’s heart. The German director is famed for his videogame adaptations, with his myriad of delights to date, including House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege…

Pink Olive

18 Sep 2008

The restaurant world consumes an awful lot of dreams. Everyone who has ever eaten out has discussed how they would do things better, and anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant has nurtured a blueprint for world, or at least neighbourhood…

Side Dishes

18 Sep 2008

Ex-corinthian chef Iain McMaster has opened up Tattie Mac’s on a nice wee site at 61 Otago Street in Glasgow, which in recent years has seen more change than a busker on Byres Road: you may remember it as Otago, the Cheese Bar or, most recently, Pizazz.

Food For Thought

18 Sep 2008

I spent a lot of time in Italy as a child and I was brought up in a foodie family so I’ve always been interested in food. I like very simple, peasant food so I eat homegrown wherever I can. For breakfast I have either a smoothie or muesli with…

Cail Bruich West

Gael force

4 Sep 2008

No one quite expected the Gaelic renaissance to include food. Fiona Anderson took along her phrasebook for a meal in Glasgow's West End.

Taste Test - Chocolate Ice Cream

4 Sep 2008

Häagen-Dazs Belgian Chocolate, £2 for 100ml tub This surprised a few in the blind tasting, who were expecting something more artificial from this worldwide brand. In fact, the silky texture, rich taste and genuine chocolate flavour were fairly…

Side Dishes - Food news to nibble on

4 Sep 2008

As the flood of Festival tourists on Edinburgh's Royal Mile recedes, a handful of recent changes have shown up along the famous thoroughfare. Café Truva, the Turkish-themed café based on Leith's shore for the last decade, has taken over Plaisir du…

Cocktail Kudos

4 Sep 2008

Chris Stock, the newly appointed assistant bar manager of Edinburgh's Bramble Bar, shares his latest cocktail innovation with The List: 'I invented this one especially for cocktail competitions, and call it The Green Dragon Julep. I make it by smashing…

GOODD

Goodd intentions

21 Aug 2008

‘Well, I think even just in order to keep our own interest intact, we needed to do something more than a retail outlet.’ Brian Proudfoot is talking me through the philosophy behind his new Glasgow venture GOODD, which he co-runs with fellow interior…

The Shandon Belles

What lies beneath

21 Aug 2008

The problem of second spaces is a dogged one for restaurants. A successful venue is always keen to make more tables available, but knows that the atmosphere, or the logistics, just don’t work so well in a room that’s tucked awkwardly through the back or…

Side Dishes

News to nibble on

21 Aug 2008

As ever, the eating and drinking scene on Byres Road is constantly evolving. Recent arrivals include Otto, an independent bar and grill in the former Rubaiyat pub on the corner of University Place, Atrio, a restaurant linked to Sauchiehall Street’s…

Unusual Gameplay

14 Aug 2008

Time to burn your joysticks and throw away your control pads as game developers begin shifting away from the norm by introducing some innovative, unorthodox and plain silly methods of play this summer. If you thought the future was here when the Wii hit…

Hidden Lane Café-Gallery

14 Aug 2008

The Hidden Lane doesn’t do location, location, location. Start in the ramshackle stretch of Argyle Street between Finnieston and Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery where there’s a growing and diverse range of small, independent bars and dining spots…

Side Dishes

14 Aug 2008

Glasgow’s more experienced diners know full well that the Two Fat Ladies fish restaurants had nothing to do with motorcycling cooks Clarissa and Jennifer, and everything to do with the address of the original site at 88 Dumbarton Road. However, the…

Game On

14 Aug 2008

Too Human Xbox 360 (Microsoft) Third-person actioner as you play cybernetic god Baldur in the first part of a mighty, world-conquering trilogy from developer Silicon Knights. It mixes hardcore melee and long-range combat as you battle humongous war…