One of the places I love to visit is Oona McFarlane’s amazing nook of positive radiance near Drymen. Set up in 2004, this holistic centre is set in a wee fairy courtyard on a country estate just on the edge of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. With massage, relexology, Reiki and other fab [...]
Indian food can be done blandly, or it can be done with style and delectable, deeply flavourful expertise. For the record, the Wee curry shop does it that way. By some freakish act of circumstance in the 13 years I’ve lived in Glasgow I have never actually eaten in the Wee curry shop, ever and [...]
I went for a lovely lunch at the Bothy on Ruthven Lane last week and it was tres delicious. We had a 5pm deal which was great value and went mad buying a fab bottle of wine with the meal and washing it all down with a do-it-yourself affogato and an Irish coffee. The last [...]
It’s the winter times, it’s cold and dark outside so what better to warm your cockles than a hot plate of mince and potatoes or a delicious shepherds pie? Or is that just me? Last week was quite the treat – Monday night tea was a childhood staple and tastier as the years go by; shepherds pie [...]
Shouldn’t everyday be pancake day? Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of Lent – time to use up all the sugar and yum stuff in your house you see. Now I’m not massively into my Lent, I am however hugely into pancakes and since we were popping round to a friends house for mince and tatties, [...]
Well, if you told me two weeks ago that a kebab with chips in would make it on to Yumyum, I may well have called you a liar. Now, instead I shall hail you as a jolly clever chap with delicious taste in food. As you will by now have realised, I do like to [...]
Well, every now and then I have to accept I am wrong. It’s true! Sometimes I am! In the case of Wisdom Cafe, I have been proven to be just that – utterly incorrect. I went out for office lunch to somewhere I was assured was ‘amazing’ – the billing was high and I thought [...]
When I first discovered the Living Room on St Vincent Street I was excited – what a lovely bar, great cocktails and friendly staff. Then I tried the food and was suitably impressed. I was however, a few visits in and found to my shock that it’s actually a chain of restaurants. There are more Living [...]
Oooh, sometimes you just can’t quite get your breakfast sh*t together right?! Well, this morning I didn’t so I got myself along to Bagel Mania on Sauchiehall Street before work for a wee breakfast bagel to pick me right up. Five minutes from my office, Bagel Mania does, as you would expect, bagels as well [...]
More vlogging because, well I was swept up in the moment! My favourite wine is red – although I have had a good white or two there’s just something special about the glory of a room temperature bottle of red. To be honest, I am probably a total philistine when it comes to what I [...]