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Foodies Festival is set to return to Inverleith Park in Edinburgh from 7 to 9 August, marking the 21st year of the touring food and music event. This year’s edition announces a large line-up of TV celebrity chefs and chart-topping music acts, combining cookery demonstrations with live performances across the weekend. The festival has become… Continue reading Foodies Festival returns to Inverleith Park with TV chefs and live music

Eat Out Edinburgh returns in 2026 with a diverse mix of restaurants, cafés and bars spread across Princes Street, George Street, St Andrew Square and the St James Quarter. City favourites including Dishoom, Hawksmoor, Contini and Sushisamba are among the venues taking part, alongside a string of new additions joining the line-up this year. The… Continue reading Eat Out Edinburgh 2026 brings the city’s best restaurants to the centre

The inaugural Leith Food Festival arrives at Leith Links this summer, with a full cookery theatre programme now confirmed. The Cookery Theatre will host nine separate demonstrations across the event, delivered in partnership with host Barry Bryson, head chef and director of the Michelin Guide-listed Barry Fish restaurant. The line-up brings together local chefs and… Continue reading Leith Food Festival debuts with Michelin-listed chef leading cookery theatre

Scottish singer-songwriter Wave Of The Flood will celebrate the release of her debut album, FortyFive, with a launch performance at the Pianodrome in Bruntsfield on Saturday 13 June 2026. The rising folk artist, one of a new wave of acoustic acts emerging from Edinburgh’s grassroots music scene, has spent the past two years writing and… Continue reading Edinburgh folk artist Wave Of The Flood to launch debut album at Pianodrome

Walk into any neighbourhood whiskey bar on a Friday night and you’ll hear it — guests circling a glass of bourbon, searching for the right words. “Smoky?” “Sweet?” “Something… toasty?” Learning how to talk about bourbon has quietly become part of the social fabric for tasting groups, supper clubs and local distillery tours, and it… Continue reading Sipping with confidence: a local bourbon lover’s guide to describing whiskey like a pro

For Tampa’s growing community of bourbon enthusiasts — from the speakeasies along 7th Avenue in Ybor City to the riverside cocktail bars in Downtown — there is reason to raise a glass this week. A federal decision to lift tariffs on whiskies coming in from the United Kingdom is rippling all the way down to… Continue reading Tampa bourbon bars cheer as UK whiskey tariff reversal saves a Kentucky-to-England favourite

Corstorphine has a tiny new neighbour. Edinburgh Zoo has announced the arrival of Scotland’s first ever baby sloth, a male Linne’s two-toed sloth born on Monday to first-time parents Feira and Nico. Keepers at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) have named the newborn Atty, in tribute to Sir David Attenborough, who marked his… Continue reading Edinburgh Zoo welcomes Scotland’s first baby sloth, named Atty after Sir David Attenborough