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Pantry opens its doors in Bruntsfield with 50 free breakfasts

Pantry’s reputation rests upon its commitment to fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
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Ayrshire’s Buzzworks wins top UK-wide award for best managed pub company

MD Kenny Blair said: “Being crowned winners against such stiff competition from across the UK is a monumental moment for us."
An old warehouse converted into a music and arts venue, seen from above

SWG3 celebrates 20 years of creativity, collaboration, and cultural evolution

In partnership with The Clydeside Distillery, a unique, limited-edition whisky is being released to celebrate SWG3's long involvement with artist Jim Lambie.
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Diageo World Class Cocktail Festival reveals its Scottish participants

Built around bartenders named within the Top 100 finalists of Diageo World Class 2025, the festival aims to ‘elevate cocktail culture nationwide’
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Major kitchen investment gives Restaurant Andrew Fairlie a fresh boost

"We recognised that there were parts of the kitchen that didn’t work as well as they could – so we decided to do something about it."
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Scottish brewers win historic triple Gold at UK’s biggest beer awards

No less than three Scottish businesses emerged as ’best of the best’ in the overall national categories for best cask, keg, and bottle/can.
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Scoop promises ‘rejuvenated energy’ from its refurbished Ox and Finch

Ox and Finch was awarded a Bib Gourmand by Michelin within six months of opening; an accolade which it has retained ever since.
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Aberdeen’s Bar Ninety-Nine revived in surprise move by hospitality trio

Only two weeks after being closed down, seemingly for good, the popular bar is being re-opened by Adrian Gomes, Stephen McNab and Martin Farmer.
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Lomond Leisure and Star Pubs seek to breathe new life into vintage site

The Sandyford Place site – which for many years operated as McPhabbs – will close after last orders on 30th March, to be transformed into Gael & Grain.
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Golf-X venue promises to be a ‘gamechanger’ for the social scene in Ayr

Founded by Cristiano Simeone and Scott Hannah, the new venture is said to be the result of a six-figure investment in transforming the space.

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