Edinburgh Restaurant Festival series: Q&A with Eugene Reilly, Head Chef, Gaucho Scotsman Food and Drink Staff January 24, 2018 Drink, Food, General, In the News With the Edinburgh Restaurant Festival just weeks away, we chat to some of the chefs involved, starting with Eugene Reilly, Head Chef at recently opened steak restaurant, Gaucho. How did you get...
83% Aurora, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 12, 2018 Food, General, In the News, Restaurant Review My mum once took a flight to see the Aurora Borealis. When the plane arrived at the perfect height and latitude, anticipation was at peak level, with all the passengers pressing their snouts against the...
73% Diablo Loco, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 5, 2018 Food, General, In the News, Restaurant Review There’s a Mexican tradition that involves eating 12 grapes in the run up to midnight on Hogmanay. Each represents one month of the year to come. If they’re sour, it’ll be a bad month, if they’re...
UK consumers ‘could eat dirty poultry through post-brexit trade deal with US’ Sean Murphy December 18, 2017 General, In the News, Producers A briefing paper prepared by three professors said British shoppers would be safer if the UK kept European Union standards on food production and called for future controls to be "stricter, not weaker". The...
Live video tasting: Peated whisky with Peatreekers founder Calum Leslie Sean Murphy December 14, 2017 General Named for the peatreekers - the brave few who defied Royal decree in 18th century Scotland to produce illegal whisky, so called because the smell of peat clung permanently to their clothes - the new blended...
Taco Bell: what is it and why do Americans love it? Finlay Greig November 15, 2017 Food, General, In the News When asked what food trends UK residents could expect in 2017, chef Ben Tish said, “I think we will see London bombarded by taco joints.” But it isn’t just the English capital that is seeing a surge...
Outrage over Scottish confectioner’s Buckfast flavoured sweets Scotsman Food and Drink Staff October 3, 2017 Food, General The monks behind a controversial tonic wine have blasted a Scottish confectioner as "highly irresponsible" for making Buckfast flavoured sweets Buckfast have struggled to shake off a reputation which has seen...
French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars Scotsman Food and Drink Staff September 21, 2017 General Sebastien Bras, whose restaurant Le Suquet is located in southern France, announced in a Facebook video that he did not want to appear in the 2018 edition of the Michelin Guide, which awards stars for...
Scots chefs to share their secrets at the new Scotland food and drink show Scotsman Food and Drink Staff September 20, 2017 General, In the News, Producers Among the first chefs to be confirmed is Mark Greenaway of Restaurant Mark Greenaway. The Edinburgh chef’s 2016 cookbook Perceptions set out to change dated views of Scottish food. Greenaway has become...
75% Radici Italian Bistro, restaurant review, Edinburgh Gaby Soutar September 15, 2017 Food, General, In the News, Restaurant Review Can you put a sparkler on her dessert or something?” I asked on the phone to this new Italian restaurant. Argh, the difficulties in explaining that, on your visit, it’ll be your sister’s birthday and...
