Want to have a cocktail party but don’t really want to mix all your own? There’s help. Social and Cocktail takes a bar, with all the glasses, booze, fruit ice and tools of the trade, to you. Last Saturday, they were at mine, mixing up a delicious storm for me…
I’m not one to gush, butohmygodgotoAizlerightnow. Just stop. Drop whatever you’re doing and book your dinner at Edinburgh’s new dining experience, Aizle. It’s a charming place, with a well thought-out concept, staffed by talented people who are creating and serving fantastically fresh, deliciously dynamic food. You won’t be sorry. (Unless, of course,…
I’m sitting at a table with people I haven’t met before, waving what looks like a perfume test strip in front of my nose and exclaiming: ‘it smells a lot more like grass if you inhale it!’. This is what can happen when you’re trying whisky at the Signet Library.…
Doesn’t this cocktail look fabulous? The star mixologist Alex at Bistro Moderne gave me a sneak preview of a cocktail he’s developing for this month’s Dining Club at Bistro Moderne. I wish I could have that much flair. What makes this cocktail molecular? It’s the foam on top created with an alcohol, some…
I like gin. It’s a thing people know about me. Recently I was, for this very reason, given a bottle of Opihr gin by friends. They’d attended a gin tasting and decided to find one that was right for me. Using their knowledge of my palate and how it compares…
I know, you’re already feeling a bit overwhelmed about all you need to achieve before Christmas. Most of these recipes can be done in stages and just think of the look on the faces of family and friends who try your handiwork! Here are our top 7 that you can…
In December we went to Cocktails in the City, where we tried Bananalicious, the official Edinburgh Foody cocktail – a heady concoction of rum, whisky and banana foam – as well as a number of other cocktails and spirits. We watched whisky being flambeed with orange peel and spices to make a…
Holidays are wonderful. You change your perspective and habits for a while and eat, drink and nibble things that you wouldn’t normally. The thing I enjoy about the US is that it is so similar to, yet so different from, the UK. The portion sizes used to put me off…
We’re delighted to say that the Pommery Champagne Bar is back for 2013 from 5 to 26 August. Much as those of us who live in Edinburgh love all the frantic festival activity, there are times when we long for a little respite away from the throngs. We also relish…
Those of you who know me, will know I have something of an obsession for France. So you might quite rightly think the most evocative thing for me would be a great meal, the landscape, the wine, the bread. I have to confess that it is actually …. Orangina! This…
