20 years of revelry at Bamboo
Glasgow nightclub Bamboo passed a major milestone at the weekend when it celebrated 20 years in business.
Every Scottish city needs a night time industries champion
Cities across Scotland should have their own representative advising the local authority on the night-time economy.
Transatlantic visitors are choosing Scotland first
As Scotland’s Tourism Industry Conference 2022 in Edinburgh got under way, presenter Jennifer Reoch proposed that the audience play a drinking game, and reach for their hidden hipflasks every time a speaker used the words ‘unprecedented’ and ‘painful’ to describe the current economic circumstances.
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.
Don’t make life harder for hospitality – delay the DRS
Governments, whether in Westminster or Holyrood, haven’t got the money to help hospitality businesses through the current economic crisis – but they could stop making life harder for them.
Diageo backs ‘THINK!’ campaign to tackle festive drink drivingÂ
ONLY 53% of 17 to 30-year-old men believe that it is ‘very risky’ to drive when over the legal alcohol limit – implying that 47% still believe drink-driving is not really a high risk behaviour.
Glasgow bartender achieves perfection with Patrón
A Glasgow bartender will be jetting to Jalisco next March after winning the UK leg of the Patrón Perfectionists competition.
ScotGov consults on stringent new alcohol promotion restrictions
SCOTGOV has issued a public consultation on new proposals to restrict the advertising and promotion of alcohol – earning a swift rebuke from the licensed trade, which is already reeling from multiple economic blows.
The Record Factory is top Scottish sports bar, two years running
FOOTBALL fans looking for the perfect pub to settle into during the imminent World Cup need look no further than Glasgow’s Record Factory, which has just been declared Scotland’s Best Venue to Watch the Match.
‘Ordinary just isn’t good enough’ for Gordon Ramsay’s new gin
Eden Mill Distillery has partnered with world-renowned chef Gordon Ramsay to create Ramsay’s Gin, using botanicals selected from the wild coastline of Fife
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