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Food and Drink, Features

Sofi's, Edinburgh

Food and Drink :: Feature 03 Dec 2008

Dave Hynes: Acting as something of a flower of light in a field of darkness that is the fairly rough Henderson St, Sofi’s is simply the daintiest little boozer on Earth. Incongruously set against the concrete background of Leith’s banana flats, it is c...

Stravaigin, Glasgow

Food and Drink :: Feature 01 Dec 2008

Ruth Marsh: Many years ago, I lived in a chaotic house on Otago Street, with bust-up cars in the garden and a landlady who stored butter and lino cuttings in the garden and, my flatmate swore, walked backwards. The urge to escape to Stravaigin, literally on my doo...

The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

Food and Drink :: Feature 29 Oct 2008

Barnaby Seaborn: The Voodoo Rooms isn’t a restaurant. It’s a cocktail bar, music venue, club and restaurant. To call its interior “bold” would not suffice. On entering the ‘Rooms (which comprises five rooms), the black and gold déco...

Fife Is Beautiful

Food and Drink :: Feature 27 Oct 2008

Ruth Marsh: It started three years ago as a quirky sideline to Ardross Farm’s large-scale, commercial production, when the Pollock family acknowledged the growing resurgence of public interest in what was actually on their plates. “People were very rem...

Agua, Edinburgh

Food and Drink :: Feature :: Review 27 Oct 2008

Esme Jones: A Crustacean Bar is not an establishment visited by the little mermaid in her later years, but a fish frenzy now open on the Grassmarket. Part of the Apex Hotel, decor is sensible, straightforward, and understated. Boasting a variety of fish from poll...

In Clover: A Caffeine-Based Revolution

Food and Drink :: Feature 30 Sep 2008

Ruth Marsh: It’s the complex piece of machinery that US coffee connoisseurs fete as the greatest thing since sliced brioche with a pot of organic bilberry jam. Since the Clover first appeared in 2004 in indie brew shops across (where else?) Seattle, it has b...

The Tron Theatre Bar

Food and Drink :: Feature 26 Sep 2008

Ruth Marsh: Can a new artistic regime change herald a revival in fortunes for The Tron Theatre Bar? Once the drinking den of choice for Glasgow's arts crowd and ladies who lunch, it suffered a downturn over the last year, with the heaving mass of luvvies, luvvie-l...

Student Life: Where you need to be, any time of day

Student Life :: Food and Drink :: Travel :: Feature 11 Sep 2008

12pm – 3pm Just getting into the day, you’ve probably successfully managed to sleep through your morning lectures, and starting to think about going outside. LAZY DAYS BY THE RIVER: The Water of Leith Ok, yes, we realize we’re re...

Student Life: Recipes to Impress

Student Life :: Food and Drink :: Feature 11 Sep 2008

Megan Watson: Although in this day and age it may be something of a cliché to presume all students live on beans and pot noodles, there is still something to be said for impressing new chums with some culinary skills. Making your own posh nosh will save you pennies ...

Student Life: Wakey, wakey! - The Best Breakfasts in Scotland

Student Life :: Food and Drink :: Feature 11 Sep 2008

Penny Green: Artisan Roast, 57 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3RJ Ethically sourced coffee made by expert barristas.   Gaia, 32 Crichton Place Edinburgh, EH7 4NY Proper family-run Italian deli with the best coffee in town.   Tinderbox, 118 Ingram ...

Bake To The Future

Food and Drink :: Feature 29 Aug 2008

Ruth Marsh: Raw Food, as a movement, is normally associated with the blue skies and bright lights of California. Luminaries of 90s Hollywood like Demi Moore and Alicia Silverstone are devotees of the diet, which claims innumerable physical and mental benefits of c...

Tex Mex 2

Food and Drink :: Feature 22 Aug 2008

Barnaby Seaborn: The warm pink-purple and lime green interior of Tex Mex II could be described variously as intimate, cosy, close, or uncomfortably cramped. Having been dazzled by the bold colours you will be bewildered by the busy menu. On closer inspection the majori...

Windows Restaurant

Food and Drink :: Feature :: Venue Review 22 Aug 2008

Ruth Marsh: For a city with such an architecturally diverse skyline, Glasgow is curiously bereft of rooftop restaurants. While Edinburgh boasts The Tower, Oloroso, The Forth Floor Restaurant at Harvey Nicks etc etc, Windows Restaurant on the seventh floor of the C...

The Ubiquitous Chip

Food and Drink :: Feature 11 Aug 2008

Ruth Marsh: Ah, The Chip. Mothership of the Glasgow restaurant scene for over 30 years and proud parent of those other West End perennials Stravaigin and The Liquid Ship. An institution of the most unstuffy, warmly regarded kind, it has been championing locality,...

Pints and Progress

Food and Drink :: Feature 30 Jul 2008

Louise Loftus, Dave Hynes: LEITH There’s something strange happening in Leith’s pub culture at the moment. In fact, it’s been happening over the last ten years, but what started out as a few brave attempts to introduce newly-refurbished and redecorated modern ...

Food For Free: The Glasgow Diary

Food and Drink :: Feature 08 Jun 2008

Louise Loftus: 9.00: Awake to an empty fridge and immediately I regret accepting this assignment. 12.30: Armed only with a packet of sunflower seeds and an emergency five pound note I set out. Hungry, but full of enthusiasm and confident that I’ll be feastin...

Food For Free: The Edinburgh Diary

Food and Drink :: Feature 08 Jun 2008

George Penny: Freeganism is viewed as ridiculous and irresponsible by some, and totally essential by others. I'm going to try it out - to live without eating any food that I have bought for a weekend. Saturday 0130. It’s my last chance to eat food which I&rsq...

Food For Free: Foraging For 'Bush Tucker'

Food and Drink :: Feature 05 Jun 2008

Ruth Marsh: As an errant Devonian, now residing in the (comparatively) big city, I get the occasional Thoreau-esque pang for open spaces and fresh air. This is compounded when I’m faced with the indignity of paying up to £3 for a miniscule punnet of bl...

Food For Free: Interview with the Freegan

Food and Drink :: Feature 04 Jun 2008

Louise Loftus: After being introduced to freeganism several months ago by friends, Antoine de l'Entropie* had been supplementing his weekly shop with foodstuffs from the bins of Marks and Spencers, Sainsburys and others. He became a full time freegan a month ago. It'...

That's The Spirit

Food and Drink :: Feature 04 Jun 2008

George Penny: There is a problem with Scotland and scotch whisky. Scotch comes from Scotland. Scotland is not a large country, but the demand for scotch stretches around the world. There is so much demand for scotch that it could be viewed as a waste to build a dist...