Patron Saint comes marching in to Bruntsfield

This new 'maximalist' venue is the latest project from Lucky Number Seven Holdings, the brains behind two popular Edinburgh’s bars, The Cocktail Mafia and The Raging Bull.

Stirling Distillery donates gin profits during Mental Health Awareness Month

Stirling’s Gin Blue Line gin was created when distillery owner Cameron – a former police officer in the Metropolitan Police – was asked to create a product that would help raise awareness and funds for those within the emergency services suffering from PTSD.

Chefs offer prisoners inside knowledge of hospitality careers

SOME of the UK’s best-known restaurant and pub chains are teaming up with prisons to teach inmates skills that could lead them into the hospitality workforce on release.

Johnnie Walker Princes Street introduces British Sign Language tastings

The specially curated 90-minute tasting was led by a whisky specialist, alongside a BSL interpreter, offering those using sign language a chance to enjoy a specially curated sensory exploration of Scotland’s liquid landscape.

Celebrating Highland food and drink – and raising cash for the Maggies charity

Chef Tony Singh MBE will spend this coming weekend in Inverness, bringing people together for food and drink, whilst fundraising for the charity Maggies Highlands.

Highlands restaurant launches young chef mentorship series

Devised by chef patron, Sean Kelly, the Young Chef Series is giving five professionals the opportunity to work in the three AA Rosette kitchen at Station Road, in Fort Augustus, and contribute to its tasting menu for one night.

East Lothian’s Mercat Grill plans World Whisky Day celebration

Guests will get to taste the 15-Year-Old Balblair, the Arran Amarone Cask Finish and the Bunnahabhain, with encouragement from renowned whisky expert Neil Forbes and the Mercat Grill’s owner Graham Blaikie.

Ayrshire’s SimpsInns launches ‘Stay & Play’ golf packages

The Ayrshire coast has several world-class links golf courses, including Dundonald Links – which was the venue for the Scottish Open in 2017 – the Western Gailes and Gailes Links, as well as Ayrshire's only Top Tracer driving range.

Guinness time capsule unsealed to mark King’s Coronation

It was found to contain a bottle of Coronation Commemorative Guinness Foreign Extra Stout from 1953 and a selection of Sovereign Coins, as well as a newspaper dated 3 June 1953.

Renfrewshire’s Bowfield Hotel & Spa adds hot-tub lodges

Hospitality operator Manorview has unveiled 10 new countryside lodges at its Renfrewshire property, Bowfield Hotel & Spa, each with a private hot tub looking out over the firth of Clyde.

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