Graeme Cheevers of Glasgow’s highly rated Unalome this week launched his second restaurant – Loma, at Cameron House resort hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond. The move marks Graeme’s return to a venue he knows well from his stint as head chef when the restaurant was run by Martin Wishart more than 10 years […]
Edinburgh chef Roberta Hall-McCarron and her husband Shaun have opened three restaurants in the city in less than seven years – The Little Chartroom, Eleanore and Ardfern – each to both critical and public acclaim. Harden’s caught up with Roberta at Ardfern, the newest of the trio. HARDEN’S: The hospitality industry is struggling around Britain, but […]
The Peat Inn, one of Scotland’s leading restaurants for several decades, is on sale with chef-patron Geoffrey Smeddle and his wife Katherine deciding to move on after 19 years. The 250-year-old inn near St Andrews in Fife wins consistent praise in the Harden’s guide for its ‘old-school class’ and has been a regular on the […]
Two upscale Scottish restaurants, Boath House in the Highlands (pictured) and Tom Kitchin’s Kora in Edinburgh, have announced their closure in January as the hospitality industry struggles in the face of difficult economic conditions. Boath House (pictured), a Georgian mansion near Nairn, northeast of Inverness, was launched in April 2022 as a ‘bohemian retreat’ by […]
Highly rated Edinburgh seafood fixture Ondine is to close temporarily at the end of the year, before reopening at an as-yet undisclosed location in the city centre – with a second branch launching in St Andrews on March 1st. The move has been forced on its founder, chef Roy Brett, by protracted work on the building […]
Dale Dewsbury is to step down from his role as general manager of Restaurant Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles next month, having been a key member of the leadership team since its 2001 launch. Working alongside head chef Stephen McLaughlin, Dale ensured the restaurant maintained its standards following the premature death of Andrew Fairlie in January […]
Chef Dan Ashmore has closed his Edinburgh live-fire restaurant ASKR after just six months and will take up a post as executive chef at the Schloss Roxburghe spa hotel, near Kelso in the Borders, later this month. Backed by the Dean Banks group, for which he was restaurant director, Dan opened ASKR – apparently an old […]
Edinburgh sommelier James Clark (left in picture) launches his debut project today (4 October) – Sotto, a wine bar and restaurant in Stockbridge that celebrates Italian food and wine. Sotto – meaning ‘under’ or ‘beneath’, a reference to the under-street cellar where the wines are stored – comprises an upstairs ‘enoteca’ and a ground-level trattoria led by Calabrian-born Francesco […]
A chef couple from Edinburgh have opened their first restaurant, NÃ dair, serving a daily-changing five-course set menu that celebrates prime Scottish ingredients. Head chef Alan Keery and pastry chef Sarah Baldry met while working together in the kitchen at one of the city’s leading restaurants, Wedgwood. The 20-cover NÃ dair (Gaelic for ‘nature’), on Roseneath Street […]
The three brothers behind El Celler de Can Roca in Girona are to open a restaurant at The Macallan whisky distillery in Scotland this summer. In what is said to be their first venture outside Spain, the brothers will sprinkle their Catalan magic over the local Scottish larder. TimeSpirit, which opens in August at Craigellachie […]
