Scottish venues celebrate inclusion in 2025’s Top 50 Cocktail Bars list
Scotland is represented by Edinburgh’s Bramble Bar & Lounge, Hey Palu, Nauticus, and Panda & Sons; Glasgow’s Daddy Marmalades, The Absent Ear and The Gate; and The American Bar at Gleneagles, Auchterarder.
Carrigan’s family business is a Lanarkshire legend
Close-knit family earned its SLTN IMO Award by running its business with passion and professionalism
Turntable – flipping the record on ordinary whisky blending
Glasgow-based brothers Alasdair and Gordon Stevenson are on a mission to disrupt the whisky industry status quo – starting with this week’s launch of the first three of their new ‘Turntable’ range of whisky blends.
Hospitality must be put at the heart of the upcoming Budgets
Chancellor Rachel Reeves' autumn Budget arrives on Nov 2, with Scottish finance secretary Shona Robison's coming in January.
Diageo declares war on hospitality’s ‘chronic skills shortage’
DRINKS giant Diageo has announced a new initiative to address the chronic skills shortage currently gripping the UK hospitality sector.
Report spurs calls for off-sales action
Fresh calls for action to tackle the availability of cheap alcohol in supermarkets have been issued following the publication of a new report on...
Over 8000 attend ScotHot tourism and hospitality show in Glasgow
Hospitality trade show ScotHot broke its own attendance record last week when over 8000 delegates descended on Glasgow’s SEC.
No need for all-night licensing
Operators dismiss claim Glasgow should consider 24-hour model
By Dave Hunter
Glasgow bar and club operators have dismissed a suggestion that the city should consider moving...
New Bill doesn’t go far enough
Failure to tackle crucial issues is “disappointing”.
Alexander Wines brings the sunshine to its Glasgow trade tasting
A combination of producer-hosted tables and free-pour areas allowed the healthy turnout of hospitality operators to take their time over their wine sampling.
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