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Platform makes a play for family-friendly summer football trade

In the railway arches under Central Station, Platform's fan zone aims to host football action with a family and dog-friendly atmosphere.
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Franklin & Sons offer to pay winning mixologist’s rent for six months

Titled ‘Flavour in Motion’, the competition tasks professional bartenders to recreate the first cocktail they ever made.  

No visitor levy in place in Scotland until 2026 – at the earliest 

“The Visitor Levy must be viewed as a force for good, rather than being labelled as a ‘tourism tax’, which is damaging for Scotland’s reputation"
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‘The Single Cask Saucy Sensation’ comes to the Polwarth Tavern

Fife-based The Single Cask have been working with local supplier The Whisky Sauce Co to create a range of single cask whisky sauces.
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Marc Adams takes the reins at Crerar’s Isle of Mull Hotel & Spa

Originally from Dundee, Marc has more than twenty-five years’ experience in the sector, in a variety of family-run and large chain hotels.
two women drink from the drinks bureau pink and red cocktail cans

Stonegate Group sells Shirleys to raise funds for LGBTQ+ charity

The cocktails come from The Drinks Bureau, which launched November 2023 with a range of ‘award-winning and bar-quality cocktails’ in cans and bag-in-box formats.
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Scotland’s Signature Group is one of the UK’s ‘best places to work’

Signature's restaurants, pubs, bars, hotels – and brewery – employ 650 people across 20 venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling.
a man in an orange t-shirt smiles with a woman holding a dram glass

Scottish Rum Festival comes to Glasgow’s SWG3 this autumn

Following its successful inaugural event last year, the festival's return is timed to coincide with the first weekend of the Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight.
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Ferry problems prompt Arran’s Auchrannie Resort to offer free rooms

Arran businesses are facing ‘significant and urgent financial challenges’ due to a lack of visitor confidence in the island's ferry service.
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Masterchef: The Professionals finalist Massey launches ‘Sanja’

Raised near New Delhi in India, until leaving for Scotland in 2014, Massey is renowned for using the spices of his homeland to ‘enliven and embolden’ Scottish fine dining.

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