Scottish Food Events Guide: August 2022
If you're feeling peckish during all the festival excitement through August, we've got a great guide to all the food events across Scotland this month
It’s the Fringe! And that means, among other things (mad landlordism, £6 pints, clowns accosting you outside Sainsburys), you'll find Fun Things In Unexpected Places. Over in Haymarket, there are a couple of pop-ups to recommend. The lovely folk at Company Bakery welcome Scottish Street Food Award winners Junk to their weekend market from 12-14 Aug. Get up early, pick up some nice bread, grab a decadent brunch while you’re at it (5 Devon Pl, from 9am). At the other end of the day, it’s burger time! Nice Times Bakery sits on the site of a former all-night bakery on Morrison Street; they’re channelling that spirit during the Fringe with a late-night burger pop-up every Friday and Saturday in August (147 Morrison St, 9.30pm-2.30am).
If you’re looking for something more family-friendly than a 1am cheeseburger, take a trip to Cove Park near Helensburgh. Their Unexpected Picnic event combines art workshops, installations, food tastings, a community recipe board and a host of activities (6 Aug, 1-5pm, free, info and RSVP at covepark.org)
Over in Glasgow, SWG3 are opening up their garden terrace for a run of Friday night barbecues. The food is by Nomad, who also have a pizza residency in the Acid Bar round the corner; the music comes from a selection of local DJs; the garden itself is round the back of the warehouse. Look for the umbrellas (Fridays until 26 Aug, swg3.tv).
Indie Beer Scotland is a new beer festival taking the somewhat bold move of holding their first event at Murrayfield Stadium. Seems like they’ll have more than enough beer to go around – the lineup features more than thirty Scottish breweries, with independent cider and spirit producers thrown in for good measure (19 Aug, 5pm; 20 Aug, 11.30am and 5pm; tickets £5 via siba.thundertix.com).
In Leith, the Lind and Lime Distillery host a series of August supper clubs with restaurants from across the city. Nights with pasta aces Æmilia and the fantastic Nordic-inflected Heron look like standouts. (Various dates, tickets £40-65 via buytickets.at/lindandlime)
Lastly, a grand finale mentioned elsewhere in this month’s magazine, but we wouldn’t want anyone to miss it. After seven years, the groundbreaking street food market at The Pitt closes its doors this month. Head down for one last hurrah ahead of their move to Granton in 2023, check this month's issue for some reflections on The Pitt’s role in Scotland’s food scene. Saturdays and Sundays from midday, thepitt.co.uk