EVENTS
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■ Whisky Blending Experience Fri 21 Feb, 7pm– midnight. £55. Arisaig, 1 Merchant Square, 553 1010. A chance to blend your very own bottle of whisky, after learning some tips from the experts.
■ Christine Bovill’s Piaf Fri 28 Feb, 6.30pm. £50. Le Bistro Beaumartin, 161 Hope Street, 226 4442. See main pic. ■ Beer Geek Brunch Sat 1 Mar, noon–2am. £10 for a day ticket (evening ticket £15; day + evening £20). SWG3, Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246. Brewdog hosts this celebration of craft beer accompanied by a variety of street food, plus an evening of musical stylings from Miaoux Miaoux,
Prides, Aidan Moffat and more.
■ South America Wine Tasting Thu 13 Mar, 7.30– 9.30pm. £40 (includes finger buffet). Baby Abode, 129 Bath Street, 07984 893138. Taste whites and reds from all over the continent.
■ Glasgow Wine School Tastings Sat 15 Mar, 11am–4pm. £85. Radisson Blu Hotel, 301 Argyle Street, 447 0446. A full day of nosing, swirling and sipping, plus a two-course lunch.
EDINBURGH ■ Bistro 1984 Wed 26 Feb, evening bookings, £35. Bistro Moderne, 15 North West Circus Place, 225 4431. Mark Greenaway offers his own twist on a classic 1980s menu at a new
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Glasgow restaurant Le Bistro Beaumartin hosts Christine Bovill performing her popular Piaf live show on Fri 28 Feb. Alongside the music is a welcome drink and three-course meal from Beaumartin’s à la carte menu. lebistrobeaumartin.co.uk
monthly dining club.
■ Chinese White Tea Tasting Thu 27 Feb, 7.30–9pm. £10. Pekoe Tea, 20 Leven Street, 477 1838. Taste a selection of delicate, fresh white teas from Yunnan and Fujian.
■ Vins d’Alsace Fri 28 Feb, 6pm. £22 (£20). Institut Français d’Ecosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, 225 5366. Wine tasting held in French, focusing on the white wines of Alsace, including Rieslings and Gewurztraminers.
■ Slow Food Masterclass Sat 1 Mar, 11am. £27.50. Café St Honoré, 3 North West Thistle Street Lane, 226 2211. Chef Neil Forbes teams up with Grierson Organic to explore the ‘fifth quarter’ of meat – offal, in other words. The cooking demo is followed by a two-course lunch.
■ Flamenco Dinner Dance Sat 1 Mar & Sat 15 Mar, 7pm. Alba Flamenca, 74 East Crosscauseway, 667 3600. Spanish food and dynamic flamenco dancing. Also dates on 29 Mar and 5 Apr.
■ Moveable Feast Thu 6 Mar, 6–10.30pm. £35. St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church, 13 George Street, 0844 225 9857. Visit three restaurants all in one night, with a drinks reception to start things off. Money raised goes to
Parkinson’s UK.
■ French Classics Wine Tasting Every Wed, 12 Mar–2 Apr, 7.30–9.30pm. £40 per session; £155 for all four. The Dining Room, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, 28 Queen Street, 01334 870731. Four sessions take you on a detailed trip around France, hosted by Rose Murray Brown.
■ Introduction to Chinese Tea Thu 13 Mar, 7.30–9pm. £10. Pekoe Tea, 20 Leven Street, 477 1838. Brush up on your Chinese tea history before tasting white, green, oolong and black teas.
■ Tasting: Cognac Fri 14 Mar, 6pm. £22 (£20). Institut Français d’Ecosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, 225 5366. Looking at Cognac from vinification to the ageing process.
CO-PROMOTION WITH REAL FOODS, EDINBURGH FROM APPLES AND PEARS TO GLOBAL WARES... ‘Not 3 bob, not 2 bob but 1 bob a pound for our organic potatoes’ is what you might have heard at our market stall in 1963.
50 years later we still like the patter about our fresh produce, but we’ve had to come up with new rhyming slang for our growing organic fruit and veg range. So, if you want some locally-grown bright eyes and bushy tail (kale) or something more exotic - a healthy glow (mango), come and have a gander at our organic greens.
Visit us in-store or go online to choose your own mix of organic fruit & veg in the exact quantities you need - a fresh alternative to the surprises in a traditional veg box. And, in the spirit of our portable market-stall days, we have a new mobile- friendly website.
• Simple - pick your own to make meal planning easy and economical.
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Real Foods now bring you a greater range of fresh organic fruit and veg than ever before, from near and far.
Best of all, you’ll find our fresh fruit and veg is just as good value now as it was in our market-stall days. So, who wants a pink grapefruit? Organic, of course. For you, 65p! Pink grapefruit price right at time of going to print
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