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The Hanoi Bike Shop
This place opened recently after an impressive pr campaign which saw old bikes appearing at various spots around the city sporting nothing more than the enigmatic name. Expecting some worthy charity...
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Red Red Wine, Goes To My Head
The label's unassuming, possibly misleading, for a wine costing £6.99. It looks like it should be cheaper. Bit there's a clue that what's lurking inside might be worth the price, because it hails from...
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Cocktail & Burger, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Blink and you'll miss it, which is exactly what I did the last time I came to meet someone at Cocktail and Burger's previous incarnation Republic Bier Hof. Missing this place would be a big mistake....
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Nanakusa, Japanese Grill & Sushi Restaurant
Just been to see Jiro Dreams of Sushi. A remarkable film about one man and his obsessive compulsion to become the greatest Shokunin that ever was. Jiro, now in his 85th year and still working every...
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Great value Rioja from Sainsbury's
More than any other supermarket Sainsbury's seems to me to have lost it's way with the fruits of the grape. It's the only supermarket I visit regularly without buying wine. God knows I try, scanning...
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Inverarity Bath Street - a hidden gem
Some of the best fun to be had of a weekday evening is to be found lurking behind an uninviting basement door on Bath Street. Trust me on this one.Last Thursday it was a cigar tasting.A few weeks...
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The Bay Tree Cafe & A Bottle of Chablis
I've been coming here for longer than I care to remember. It was still a militant vegan place when I first rolled through the door and judging by the reception I'd say they could smell the meat on me....
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Enoteca Panevino - top wine & nibbles in Finnieston
Panevino, bread and wine, two of the greatest achievements of western civilisation and two of my favourite things yet until last night I'd never been in. Outside the menu read well, peeping through the...
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the 78 cafe bar - as good as chips get?
I'm going out on a limb here and realise the inevitable danger that others may visit the 78 when the potatoes aren't the same variety, a different person's cooking or the oil's a bit older and colder....
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Blogging's been boring me a bit of late always feeling like it needed something new. Finally something's come along that makes me want to do it again. Vine and Instagram offer an exciting new addition...
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Dead easy, dead tasty. Made using the recipe on the back of the bottle and bloody deelish it is too. Made using Instagram video, not without it's flaws but the extra 8 seconds is useful.
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Sutor Creek - cracking pizza in Cromarty
The car rolled in across an ancient fertile landscape with oats and barley ripening on the warm breeze. We passed through empty village after village undulating away towards our goal. From an otherwise...
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What is it with Tesco?
What is it with Tesco?Last night I popped out to get a few ingredients for dinner.First stop my local independent Asian supermarket for coarse bulgar wheat. I often shop here, they sell top notch...
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Cupcakery in Finnieston
Why do so many adults gibber on excitedly about cake as if it were an illicit drug? It isn’t. It won’t get you high, result in amazing sex or change the way you see the world. More importantly it...
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An Island Adventure... then off to Balmaha for tea & icecream
A suddenly recalled foot injury led to the announcement and it came an hour after I'd planned be heading up Ben Lomond. I'd delayed on the promise of company up a much smaller hill nearby. Then, from a...
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Perfect red for a sunny day
Tesco's own label Valpolicella only costs £5.49, a total bargain that went brilliantly with lamb and chicken kebabs on Friday. A light easy drinker with refreshing acidity and a pronounced sour cherry...
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Bez's Beer
I was introduced to these beers by a friend and couldn't help but notice the similarity with the Happy Mondays album art work.A few days later I popped along to The Cave on Great Western Road to pick...
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Cracking 15 year old Speyside Malt : theperfectsip - Batch #1
 Something great this way comes.Tucked away in a basement underneath the Glasgow Art Club is 'Inverarity One to One'. Anyone with even a passing interest in whisky, bourbon, rum, tequila, wine or...
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New Chips for Sauchiehall Street
Last year the sudden and unexpected demise of Mr Chips came as a dreadful shock to the many thousands of Glaswegians who over the years had come to regard this place as their own. A unique and...
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Rioja - great Spanish food in the West End
It was one of those wonderful Glasgow nights when warm air magically weechs up the city and drops it down a thousand miles nearer the equator. Outside chairs and tables suddenly appear from nowhere and...
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Bargain Hunter
For marketeers the suggested endorsement of a hunter adds an earthy rustic honest appeal to food and drink and I fall for it every time. I'm always bringing back multiple packets of chasseur sauce from...
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Sausage Slider Salad
Anyone witnessing my social media feeds will have found the many fandango creations, particularly around breakfast time, difficult to avoid. I've never really eaten cereal and a hefty dose of Yorkshire...
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Californian myths, mists and pinot noir
My image of California's coast has always been that of a magnate for sunshine and surfers living out their lives in a temperate paradise. This summer I discovered that marketing and pr may once again...
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The deeper the cut the greater the thrill
Really, who doesn't love a bargain? Finding a rock bottom price for something you've actually considered buying at full price before. Today I struck gold, but first let me set the scene.A few months...
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Pickled Ginger - Japanese vibes in Finnieston
Pickled Ginger is the latest new kid on the Finnieston block. Well actually it's about two blocks beyond Nouveau Finnieston proper in a part that is definitely still up and coming, if not downright...
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