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 ...
I understand that three minutes doesn’t sound like a particularly noteworthy time to wait, but rarely do I feel more conscious of the passage of time than when watching the sands of time slip through an hourglass. On a recent visit, to Pekoe Tea, in Tollcross, I sampled sencha green ...
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 ...
For me, the true essence of living dangerously is to simply throw out the rules… and that’s how I’ve chosen to get myself into the danger zone for Total Food Geeks. New ingredients, new techniques, and no recipe to follow. As a baker, stepping into this unknown is rather terrifying. I’ve ...
Our competition is now closed so many thanks for all of your entries. We have selected our winner at random from all of the correct entries received and the lucky diner is .... Nadya Stewart! Congratulations Nadya, we hope you have a great time and look forward to hearing about ...
Each time that the World's Best 50 Restaurants are announced, certain critics get on their high horses and decry that the "the best food isn't found at Heston Blumenthal's" and good honest British food is best. How ironic that ...
It was with considerable serendipitous glee that I read about this month's theme, the art of eating. It sounded very familiar. Where had I heard it before? I felt that nagging sensation of palpably proximate knowledge. And then I closed the book that I had open in my lap and ...
Last month saw the coming together of so many great things, lemonade and scones, deep fat frying and meringues, eggs and red food colouring, and old and new geeks at our ...
The training for the London to Brighton 100k walk has continued over the past few weeks, with the distances ramping up to truly terrifyingly lengths. We had a lovely walk around the city, a few ...
