EVENTS
GLASGOW ■ Call My Bluff Whisky Dinner Thu 18 Apr, 7pm– midnight. £25. Arisaig, 1 Merchant Square, 553 1010. As you taste five malts, figure out which expert is feeding you lies about the description. ■ Queen’s Park Farmers’ Market FREE Sat 20 Apr & 4 May, 10am–4pm. Queen’s Park, 520 Langside Road, 287 2500. Local produce from local people.
■ Mansfield Park Farmers’ Market FREE Sat 27 Apr & 11 May, 10am–2pm. Mansfield Park, 5 Hyndland Street, 287 2500. Over 40 stalls of local produce, direct from the manufacturers. ■ Chef Wars ‘The Professionals’ at Cookie Sun 28 Apr, 6.30–10.30pm.
£20. Cookie, 72 Nithsdale Road, 423 1411. Turn off the food channel and get to this live monthly cook-off featuring local talent. EDINBURGH ■ New Brew Beer Fest 11–28 April. Various locations. Real-ale specialists DM Stewart celebrate over 200 beers from 50 breweries that have opened since 2006 in the Abbotsford, Canon’s Gait, Cumberland and Guildford Arms pubs.
■ Meet the Winemaker: Californian Bogle Wine Tasting Mon 22 Apr, 6.30–8pm. £15. The Bon Vivant’s Companion, 51 Thistle Street, 225 6055. Winemaker Jody Bogle travels all the way from sunny shores California to share her wines. ■ Barney’s Beer Presents: Brewery Lates
Boutique whisky festivals are popping up all the time, offering a fresh perspective and exciting ways to engage with our national drink. In late April the Edinburgh Whisky Fest is a collaboration between the Scotch Malt Whisky Society and whisky event specialists The Whisky Lounge. Tickets include a tasting glass, a bottle of water, and some mysterious ‘under the counter’ dram tokens for extra special tastings. There are also whisky and food workshops, nibbles and a wealth of exhibitors from Auchentoshan to Laphroaig.
Thu 25 Apr, 7pm. £5–£20. Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. An after-hours tour of the Summerhall Brewery (originally founded circa 1704), now home to
Barney’s Beer. Includes tasting, talk and tour hosted by head brewer Andrew (Barney) Barnett. ■ Fudge Kitchen 30th Anniversary
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Celebrations FREE Sat 27 Apr, 11am–7pm. The Fudge Kitchen, 30 High Street, 07841 194222. Includes a Fudge Off competition, fudge-making workshops and giveaways galore.
■ Edinburgh Whisky Fest Sat 27 Apr, noon. £35. The Hub, Castlehill, Royal Mile, 473 2000. A new whisky festival for Edinburgh. See main image for more. ■ Wine with a View Sat 27 April, 2–5pm. £15. Sky Bar, Point Hotel, Bread Street, 07808791904. Wine tasting from local independents including L’Art du Vin, Vino, WoodWinters, Henderson Wines and the Bon Vivant’s Companion themed around the Wine Tube Map linking flavours and style.
■ Portobello Market FREE Sat 4 May, 9.30am–1.30pm. Brighton Park, Brighton Place, pedal-porty.org.uk/food/ portobello-organic-
market. A wide range of tasty offerings from local artisan producers, plus crafts and other goods.
■ Galvin Festival of Food and Drink 13th–19th May. A week- long celebration of French and Scottish food across the Galvin brothers’ seven restaurants in London and Edinburgh including a cooking masterclass with executive chef Craig Sandle at Pompadour by Galvin on Sun 19 May, as well as a week-long special menu at Galvin Brasserie de Luxe. OUTSIDE THE CITIES ■ Loch Fyne Food Fair FREE Sat 18 May & Sun 19 May, 11am–6pm. Cairndow, Argyll, lochfyne.com. Loch Fyne Oyster Bar celebrates its 25th birthday at their annual festival featuring lots of food straight from the sea and plenty more from the fields and kitchens of Argyll. Various guests from West Cork help celebrate the Celtic connections in food and drink.
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CO-PROMOTION WITH REAL FOODS, EDINBURGH WE’VE PACKED A LOT INTO THE LAST 50 YEARS Real Foods has been in business about as long as this chap so we know a thing or two about packing wholefoods.
We pack all our Essentials and Organic products on site. This means we can pass on the savings of buying in bulk to you, and you still get the smaller quantities you want, as and when you want them. The wholefoods we buy arrive vacuum-packed for maximum freshness and are divided into smaller quantities for you on demand, so they remain fresh for longer and retain more of their goodness.
You literally do get to weigh up all your options, with minimum wastage - we call it ‘pre-cycling’ - and cellophane packaging that is completely biodegradable.
• Fresh - as the day our Essentials and Organic goods were produced. They arrive in your home packed with goodness. • Convenient - sold in the quantities you want at home.
• Value - we buy in bulk on your behalf, and the more you buy the less you pay per kilo.
So you can really see on ‘balance’ that buying from Real Foods means maximum freshness, minimum packaging and greater value, for you and the environment.
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