Vitality provides health and life insurance. Their difference? They help you stay fit by offering incentives for proof of healthy habits. Last Saturday they partnered with Great British Chefs to run an event for a handful of their clients who had won a three-course dinner by Martin Wishart. I was…
Venison slider: one of Ishka’s bar snacks.
I’m sipping a Dawn Chorus, an evocative concoction of Edinburgh Gin Plum Liquer and Daffy’s Gin, misted with absinthe. The room is busy with people coming to celebrate the opening of stylish new restaurant and bar Ishka.
Whilst I respect those that undertake a month of martyrdom or even longer, especially when it’s for a good cause such as Cancer Research and do ‘Dry January’, I’ll put it out there that I never do. No Dry January for Kerry I don’t think there’s any point in denying…
I worked in the Scotch whisky tourist business several summers and am a card-carrying member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society so it will come as no surprise that American whiskey isn’t my first choice. Saying that, over the last few years, I have developed a soft spot for a Manhattan, a sweet…
VDeep is a collaboration between the team behind the Vintage and Hardeep Singh Kohli, the broadcaster and writer. It brings together artisanal beer with curry, two Scottish favourites. (Amy will give us a full review in a few weeks.) As well as serving beer and food, VDeep will be running regular…
I recently went along to Thai restaurant Chaophraya, on Castle Terrace, for the Ron Zacapa Experience Launch Party. Chaophraya have partnered with rum brand Ron Zacapa Centenario to create a new Terrace Menu, including special canapes and cocktails. The menu was certainly a complement to the new cocktails, as both…
Last week, we went to Hush Hour. Hush Hour is a monthly event at Lucky Liquor in Edinburgh where books, cocktails and people who love both equally come together.
Danielle Hot from our Valentine’s Night In suggestions, Blythe and I went along to All Bar One to try a different Valentine’s Night out – one making cocktails. At All Bar One until the 15th February, you can sit at the cocktail mixing experience table from 5pm to try your…
A warm welcome to 2015, which rather excitingly is Scotland’s Year of Food & Drink. I was along at the launch of Scotland’s Year of Food and Drink, a couple of months ago. It set the scene for the type of events and topics that we could likely expect at…
Blythe of Lunchquest send me a message. “Had I heard about Restaurant Day?” I had not. I looked at their webpage and discovered that it is a”food carnival created by thousands of people organizing and visiting one-day restaurants worldwide”. Blythe issued me a challenge. “Why don’t you do something? I’ll…
