11 results for tag: Food Tours Scotland

Tales and Tastings of Scotland

What does it take to create an authentic tasting event in Scotland? It’s hard to think of a better setting to deliver an informal tasting journey, exploring the fascinating story of Scotland’s iconic cuisine, than in a castle-like historic house dating back to the 15th Century. Luckily for me the beautiful Pitfirrane House; home of the Halkett family in Dunfermline, was the location chosen by the Rotary Club of West Fife for their recent social gathering. It is certainly the most spectacular golf clubhouse in which I have had the pleasure of delivering a Scottish food tasting event. With exceptional medieval woodwork, Flemish stained ...

The Year of Food and Drink…it’s not over yet!

It's two weeks until Scotland’s ‘Year of Food & Drink' ends, but fear not as we provide our 366 day leap year solution on how to continue the celebrations in 2016.   So yes, okay, it will involve a short flight or ferry ride over to Northern Ireland, but I think you’ll find it’ll be well worth the journey and here’s why. Just a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of travelling to Northern Ireland and sharing the stage to give an insight on Scotland’s hugely successful ‘Year of Food and Drink 2015’. Sharing that stage was renowned restauranteur and BBC ‘Great British Menu’ judge Oliver Peyton; Dr Morgaine Gaye, a Food ...

Celebration Food and Whisky Tour of Scotland

As promised a chance for you to share in our fantastic 14 day culinary, food and drink celebration tour around Scotland. Enjoy the highlights of the first quarter, as we take you on a delicious culinary and cultural journey during Visit Scotland’s official ‘Year of Food & Drink’ and the British Food Fortnight. Day one begins in Glasgow, recently voted the friendliest city in the world. It's as vibrant and dynamic as they come, with informal dining being the route most travelled. "Unfussy, authentic and delicious" is how our guests described their first dinner at Café Gandolfi, a Glasgow institution that serves up Scottish inspired, ...

Asparagus as fresh as a daisy

There is always something magical about taking a group of people who appreciate the finer things in life on one of our food and drink day tours, but when you are visiting one of the most highly regarded asparagus farms in the country and visiting what we now know to be the Scotland’s Restaurant of the Year, the bar is raised to an altogether different level.As with all our food and drink based experiences we want you to gain a real flavour of Scotland’s top class products and the people who produce with both passion and pride.  There was no better place to start last Saturday’s gourmet journey than with Sandy and Heather Pattullo who have been ...

Green with anticipation for the King of Veg

So it’s all been going off in England in a very green and majestic way. That’s to say the Asparagus season has well and truly started with those ‘King of Veg’ spears going down very, very well. Despite a very long winter both north and south of the border the English season started as is customary on St George’s day on 23rd April. I have always loved this time of year, a time when the nights are stretching, the tulips positively thriving and Scottish asparagus most definitely arriving. As was the case in 2012 we may be a little behind with another cold and wet start to the year, but we are nearly there and not long now before long we should ...