Food & Drink

With food security and food miles increasingly on people's minds, and lengthy allotment waiting lists, the Edib

The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RGBE) has announced that is launching a new foodie festival this Spring - Science on a Plate.

Whisky Stramash is a unique event, taking place for the first time at the historical Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh on 26th & 27th May 2012.

Various Burns Suppers, ceilidhs and similar celebrations take place around the city to celebrate the birth date of Scotland's National Bard, Robert Burns (1759-96).

2012 is the 53rd anniversary of the birth of Burns.

The Pentland Hills Regional Park on the edge of Edinburgh is a great place for visiting throughout the year.

Irene takes the £10 challenge - hunting out 10 Edinburgh restaurants where she can eat a good, two-course meal for under £10.

On a wild and windy November night, it was a thought to be going out in the first place far less going across town to its far environs on the night the

Edinburgh’s hottest new Friday night experience. See the museum in a new light with the first of our new late events.

Chocolate lovers, clear your diaries now.

After haggis, oats is perhaps one of the food groups most often associated with the traditional scottish diet.

Scotland’s first community-owned bakery will open in Dunbar on October 6th. Called simply “The Bakery,” it will offer residents of Dunbar and the surrounding area tasty wholesome artisan bread that is made and baked on the premises.

Experience an evening of dance, comedy, music, and magic at the Roxburghe Hotel.

A Burns Supper in August may seem a daft idea, but that's the essence of The Robert Burns Experience held in Monteith’s restaurant on the High Street.

It has begun. The Edinburgh Fringe is upon us. Officially the Fringe doesn't kick off until the 5th August, but there is already a multitude of preview shows on at Gilded Balloon Teviot, The Pleasance, C Venues, Assembly George Square, to name a few of the venues.

With the sun still with us it seemed like an opportune time to investigate the recently erected tented village at George Square.

One of the side-effects of this unusually dreich Edinburgh Summer, is that there have been fewer people meandering around Edinburgh's parks. Take Castlehill garden: I was walking in this rough, unkempt hillscape, smack in the middle of the city under Edinburgh Castle, a couple of evenings ago. The only sign of life, apart from the distant hum of buses on Princes Street, were a few rabbits munching in the undergrowth.

Spain doesn't just excel at football, as this free culinary celebration aims to show. A Taste of Spain returns for the third year running with Spanish lifestyle, culture and food from different Spanish regions - Andalucía, Galicia, Mallorca, Menorca, Canary Islands, and the Basque Country.

Edinburgh's historic Assembly Rooms venue on George Street has two well-known tenants for next year, including the Fringe, f

Nearly 300 primary schoolchildren will be taking centre stage at next week’s Royal Highland Show when they present “Scotland’s Larder Showcase”.