Edinburgh is a city so saturated with food and drink experiences that we can sometimes fail to notice the delights that fall right under our noses. For me, Iglu was such a place. Igu Bar & Restaurant is a cute, cosy nook hidden away on Jamaica Street on the ...
New Year, New You... a phrase so often spoken in January. But amidst a month of trying new things and making resolutions we have found comfort in falling back into well worn and perfectly developed old traditions. From what to do with your festive leftovers to traditional Burns night recipes we ...
Following our recent Open Night at Cranachan & Crowdie, our fine hosts proudly present a few recipes to make your Hogmanay sparkle... Savoury Scottish Festive Canapé recipes by Ann Scott And the best part? You can get all the ingredients ...
Autumn, the season of the harvest, a time to rejoice of the produce of our Mother Earth, to learn to cook the more unusual offerings (I still remember my first adventure with celeriac a few moons ago! :D) and to rediscover cooking seasonally, according to recipes new and old. However, we ...
I am inhaling the lively aroma emanating from a six year old sourdough starter, cleary beloved by it's owner Neil Forbes. Sat in Cafe St Honore on Edinburgh's Thistle Street Lane with ten other delighted food lovers, we have just eaten one of the best ...
This year’s Edinburgh festival, and in particular the Edinburgh International Book Festival, has been a very busy time, so it proved rather propitious timing that we were to spend a weekend in Perthshire, in the middle of the month, to celebrate our friend Mary’s birthday.
What speaks more of the Great British Summer than the Garden Party at the Palace of Holyroodhouse? Cucumber sandwiches on the lawn, refreshing glasses of elderflower cordial, a nice wedge of fruitcake, with ladies in hats and gentlemen in morning coats; there is something quintessentially and splendidly British about the ...
This month’s theme of “Danger Zone” has a range of different connotations, for me. It means at least all of the following: “Dangerous” food: from fugu preparation to munching on scorpions, some intrepid folks like sampling all manner of dangerous or scary looking items. It’s not really for me, though. [caption id="attachment_3336" ...
Meeting up for dinner with one of the founding members of Total Food Geeks Edinburgh means you know you're in for 'a tasty sort of a night'. With a hungry belly and a head full of food chat, I headed up to Causewayside to meet with Georgia for dinner at ...
This month, the TFGE crew were treated to a private dining experience at the newly refurbished Harvey Nichols Forth Floor restaurant to try out the new tasting menu and have a gander at the ...
