From Chicago to Killiecrankie, Maura is on a mission for the CIA

Perthshire’s award-winning restaurant with rooms, Killiecrankie House, is playing host to an externship student from the Culinary Institute of America
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Board accused of ‘killing’ clubs

Dundee operator blasts city councillors for hours decisions.

Innis & Gunn pour 200,000 pints at the Royal Highland Show

In recent years, alongside its more traditional displays of horses, livestock and farm machinery, 'the Highland' has become a major showcase of Scottish food and drink.

Beer duty cut in Budget

BEER duty is to be cut by 1p and the controversial escalator scrapped – but the 2% above inflation rise in duty will remain in place for wine, cider and spirits. Delivering his Budget, chancellor George Osborne confirmed the 3p rise in beer duty planned for April has been scrapped and beer duty will be cut by 1p; the annual 2% above inflation duty escalator will also be scrapped for beer. However, the controversial duty escalator will continue to apply to wine, cider and spirits.

BT overhauls its pricing structure

Broadcaster announces 4.9% price rise ahead of “biggest ever season”

Stewart Brewing announces £330,000 investment in green tech

Midlothian craft beer pioneers are installing Solar Photovoltaic panels across their building roofs and walls, and Carbon Capture machines to collect and bottle the CO2 produced on site.

Beer deal with Innis & Gunn is a natural fit for the Royal Highland...

For four days in June, the Royal Highland Showground becomes Scotland’s sixth biggest population centre, with 55,000 people on site each day.

New immigration system ‘biggest threat’ to Scottish hospitality industry

Plans for a post-Brexit points-based immigration system unveiled by the UK Government on February 19 “totally disregard” the skills and importance of those working in the Scottish hospitality sector, a tourism chief has claimed

Community is at the heart of city bartender group

Members of a growing bartender group in Glasgow worked up a sweat last month at their latest event. HospoHang is a community group founded by Zach Sapato of cocktail bar The Absent Ear and which is open to anyone working in hospitality around Glasgow.
Sky said it is freezing its rates in response to a tough trading environment.

Sky unveils pubs price freeze

Broadcaster launches on-trade support package SKY is to freeze the cost of a subscription to its Sky Ultimate package for the third successive year. The broadcaster,...

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