Festive Food

To get into the spirit this Christmas, you may want to check out all the tasty treats on offer at the Foodies Festival. If you made it to their summer event you’ll know that there will be free samples galore from local restaurants, Scottish food producers and alcohol merchants. You will also know that you will almost certainly be seduced into parting with cash for those (perhaps, in the strictest sense) unnecessary yet must-have balsamic dressings from Little Doone Foods or the Scottish cheeses from Edinburgh Larder’s collection. And that giving into that temptation will leave you feeling very very happy.

Alongside eating, drinking and being merry check out some seasonal cocktails and wines, or keep an eye out for some early Christmas gift shopping. Chocolate and Love are an online boutique chocolate store with a huge range of products at the high quality and more unusual end of the sweet tooth spectrum, ideal for those hard to buy for relatives.

Learn some new skills for Christmas entertaining as (we’re very sorry to inform you) a bottle of Buckfast and a few value mince pies do not a fancy shindig make. Foodies can teach you how to produce creative canapés, mix the most fabulous cocktails and even master which wine will go perfectly with that big slab of beef. Looking for some tips on how to make the pigs in a blanket fly of your Christmas table? There will be top notch chefs from across the whole UK creating festive recipes right before your eyes. And a wine tasting stand. ‘Nuff said.