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…

Sixteen again

25 Jun 2009

A few years back, Joel Pomfret worked front-of-house at No Sixteen on Byres Road for Margaret and Ronald Campbell, the couple who had established the bijou restaurant as one of the most fondly regarded bistros in Glasgow’s West End. Working alongside…

Cycle routes in Scotland with food

11 Jun 2009

With its handy bridges and riverside cycle paths, the Clyde is an inevitable focus for cyclists in central Glasgow, so it’s worth keeping in mind that the City Café (0141 227 1010, www.cityinn.com ) in the City Inn on Finnieston Quay is a pretty decent…

Food For Thought - Mark Beaumont

11 Jun 2009

Before a cycling expedition, I try and eat as much as possible and put on some reserves – basically, I try to get fat. So I eat a lot more than the average person, around five to six meals a day adding up to 6000 calories or more. Breakfast is a few…

Taste Test - Energy food for cycling

11 Jun 2009

Banana £0.30, fruit shops everywhere. ••••• Good old-fashioned natural food and what all energy products are trying to recreate in their caffeine or carbohydrate pumped products. Combinations of carbohydrates and B vitamins in bananas give a huge…

Side Dishes

11 Jun 2009

The Brand new Hotel Missoni on the corner of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and George IV Bridge is the first collaboration between the Italian fashion house and the Rezidor Hotel Group. The first-floor La Cucina restaurant has a large sharing table, outside…

Six of the Best - Eating & Drinking around Leith

11 Jun 2009

The King’s Wark 36 The Shore, 0131 554 9260 Few things can make a foodie as happy as a portion of homemade fishcakes and frites courtesy of this granddaddy of the Leith eating scene. Oozing olde worlde charm, the Wark’s menu boasts everything from…

Tongs of praise

28 May 2009

Summer wouldn’t be summer without the irresistible smell of something sizzling away on a barbecue. Although the traditional BBQ may conjure up images of basic burgers and sausages, there are plenty of pubs now offering something more upmarket, whether…

The Grassmarkets

28 May 2009

Summer’s (almost) here, and the time is right for shopping in the street. As David Bowie might have sung, were he a product of a more capitalist age. However, if you must shop, you could do worse than paying a visit to the newly refurbished Grassmarket…

Side Dishes

28 May 2009

● Happy News all round this fortnight as we hear that former chefs at No 16 on Byres Road in Glasgow are hoping to reopen the restaurant. Across town, the Giovanazzi brothers are set to open their third Paperino’s restaurant in the former site of 78 St…

Bramble Bar and The Saint amongst several new bars opening in Edinburgh

14 May 2009

A couple of Edinburgh’s bright young bars have added premises to their portfolio in recent weeks, with the guys behind Queen Street’s Bramble Bar opening up the Saint on St Stephen Street in Stockbridge, while the team running the nearby Hamilton’s Bar…

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…

Taste Edinburgh - Season to Taste

14 May 2009

Edinburgh’s tented food festival is back, with 14 restaurants, three cooking theatres and over 60 food and drink stallholders gathering in Inverleith Park for three days of meeting and eating. The List takes a look at what’s in this year’s picnic basket

Taste of Edinburgh - Stuart Muir gets out of the kitchen - Pressure cooker

14 May 2009

Brand Events, the company behind Taste of Edinburgh, run their restaurant festivals in a number of cities around the UK, as well as overseas in places such as Cape Town and Sydney. The concept is clearly popular with the public, but it also involves…

A Fyne Tradition

1 May 2009

Loch Fyne was once synonymous with herring and kippers. However, the herring have all but disappeared and so have the kipper houses. Nicki Holmyard finds out about the last of a famous line.

A guide to cooking shellfish

1 May 2009

Shellfish are often paraded as the very best of Scotland's larder, but many of us are intimidated by the prospect of dealing with them at home. Expert fish and shellfish chef, Jim Cowie of the Captain’s Galley restaurant in Scrabster, gives us his…

A Way With Curds

1 May 2009

Jo Ewart Mackenzie tells the story of crowdie – an essentially simple but historic Highland cheese.

All the fun of the fair

1 May 2009

With a list of 70 different Fairtrade products, Edinburgh’s Equal Exchange is at the forefront of the movement that has changed our attitudes to food shopping. Claire Ritchie meets the folk behind it

Big Scottish Cheeses

1 May 2009

Isle of Mull Cheddar Isle of Mull Cheddar is considered by many as the daddy of Scottish cheddars. Strong, fruity and brooding, Isle of Mull cheddar is made from unpasteurised cow’s milk on Sgriob-ruadh (pronounced ‘Ski-brooah’) farm on the tranquil…

Blend not bland

1 May 2009

The relatively recent focus on single-malt whiskies all but smothered the art and craft involved in blending but, as Josie Butchart explains, there’s a new sophistication in the world of blended whisky.

Brown sugar

1 May 2009

A sticky guide to toffees, tablets and other uses for boiled sugar, by Jo Ewart Mackenzie.

Chocolate climbers

1 May 2009

Could you give us a bit more about your backgrounds? I was raised in Rutherglen, attended Stirling University, lived for two years in Austria, one year in Sweden and then moved back to Glasgow, where I worked in IT at IBM and as an academic…

Claire Macdonald on local food

1 May 2009

It is now so many years ago that I cannot remember exactly when that the Skye and Lochalsh Horticultural Association invited all hoteliers and restaurateurs in the region to their AGM and I was the only one to accept. But that was the start of our…

Craig Wood on Henderson’s the Butcher

Chef's Choice

1 May 2009

I first discovered Henderson’s while working in Edinburgh at the Hallion Club at a point when I was becoming increasingly frustrated by various butchers I had previously worked with. Alan Mattheson (now at Nick Nairn’s Cook School) mentioned this small…