Aberdeenshire Inn where Dracula was created to get commemorative plaque Tim Bugler October 29, 2018 Food, In the News Stoker's plaque will unveiled at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, where Stoker stayed in 1895 while writing the early chapters of his Gothic horror masterpiece. The plaque is the 57th...
The best traditional pubs to check out in Edinburgh Scotsman Food and Drink Staff August 16, 2018 Drink With plenty of whisky, real ale drawn from real taps and not a hipster beard in sight, here a few of the best traditional pubs in Edinburgh . . . Bennets Bar (8 Leven Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9LG)...
15 things you (probably) didn’t know about Irn-Bru Sean Murphy February 1, 2018 Drink, Producers As iconic as whisky and as famous as haggis, Scotland's other national drink, Irn-Bru, is widely enjoyed not just in the land of its birth but also across the globe. Synonymous with Scottish culture, most...
From cabbage soup to lots of pineapple: A look back at the weirdest fad diets in history Scotsman Food and Drink Staff January 6, 2018 Food A new year means one thing for many people - standing on the scales, wishing the number revealed was a few pounds (or stone) lighter, and then embarking on the latest fad diet (only to be back on the beer and...
5 of the oldest pubs in Scotland Sean Murphy November 24, 2017 Drink Lying at the heart of many a Scottish community, the local pub was often a lodestone for communication and revelry and its no wonder that so many have survived throughout the centuries to remain a tangible...
The story behind Edinburgh and the Lothian’s oldest pub names Sean Murphy October 11, 2017 Drink With over 700 pubs in the city alone there are names ranging from the exotic to the (seemingly) obvious, the stories behind these names are often as fascinating as the tales told by the staff manning their...
The story behind Glasgow’s oldest pub names Sean Murphy October 3, 2017 Drink, In the News So, what's in a name? Quite a lot if Glasgow's historic pubs are anything to go by, with names ranging from the exotic to the (seemingly) obvious, the stories behind them are often as fascinating as the...
One of the world’s rarest whiskies unveiled by Gordon & MacPhail Sean Murphy October 2, 2017 Drink, Whisky The seventy-year-old Glenlivet 1943, which is due to be unveiled by Gordon & MacPhail, commemorates a key date in wartime history. Distilled on January 14 1943, as Prime Minister Winston Churchill met...
The lost whisky distilleries of Edinburgh Sean Murphy September 27, 2017 Drink, Whisky Today, Edinburgh's residents will be more familiar with the sight of - or at least the smell of - the city's last great surviving whisky distillery - North British Grain Distillery - and the ever popular...
The Pattison Bros: The men who nearly brought down the Scotch whisky industry Sean Murphy April 21, 2017 Drink, Whisky Robert P. Pattison and Walter G.G. Pattison - two names that will forever live in infamy in Scotch whisky circles. The brothers, who were the catalyst for the collapse of the Scotch industry in the early...