Newsbites
Fringe for Foodies
Apart from the restaurants that will be offering local and delicious food during the Edinburgh Fringe, the following productions are offering a little more than just a ticket for a show.
Breakfast
- Shakespeare for Breakfast - C Chamber St – coffee and croissant
- The Big Bite-Size Breakfast – Assembly George St – coffee, croissant and strawberries
- Impossible Things Before Breakfast – Traverse Theatre – coffee and breakfast roll
- Bach/Beethoven for Breakfast – Royal Over-Seas League Princes St - tea or coffee and pastries
Brunch/Lunch
- News Brunch – Hill Street Theatre – coffee and croissant
- Chopin/Mendelssohn After Lunch - Royal Over-Seas League Princes St - tea or coffee and shortbread
Afternoon Tea
- Brahms / Mozart at Teatime - Royal Over-Seas League Princes St - tea or coffee and shortbread
Supper
- Hardeep Singh Kohli, Chat Masala – Gilded Balloon Teviot, Bristo Sq - chat and curry
- Hot Chocolate at 10 – Old St Paul’s Church Jeffries St – hot chocolate
- Late Night Liszt - Royal Over-Seas League Princes St – glass of Hungarian wine
- Under Northern Skies - Royal Over-Seas League Princes St – glass of wine
Dinner Included in the Price
- Faulty Towers the Dining Experience – B’est Restaurant, Drummond St – Lunch £34. Dinner £39.
- La Locandiera – assembly @Vittoria on the Walk, Brunswick St – Lunch £29.50. Dinner £36.50/£39.50
- Les Peters, After Dinner Stints – Ramada Edinburgh, Mount Royal Hotel Princes St - £25
- Piping Hot Burns - Ramada Edinburgh, Mount Royal Hotel Princes St - £25
- Festival in the Sky, dine at over a 100 feet! – West Princes St Gardens – From £32.50 - £97.50.
- World Famous Taste of Scotland Scottish show and Dinner – Prestonfield House - £53
DiVino, Edinburgh’s ‘Wine Library’
Not one to rest on his laurels, Tony Crolla is introducing his new baby, DiVino Enoteca, just as the Edinburgh Fringe gets under way. Opening in the first week of August, Scotland’s first Enoteca, which translates as ‘Wine Library’, will be serving 42 wines by the glass from a state of the art wine dispenser. Guests can sample some of the best, mainly Italian wines, without having to pay a fortune for a bottle. You can expect expert advice from DiVino’s general manager and award winning sommelier, Sebastiano Ingaliso who will be only too happy to recommend wines that you may not have tried before. As you’d expect from any Italian, food will also be an important element at DiVino with a menu designed specifically to be enhanced by the wine selection.
This subterranean enclave on Merchant Street will also have an education room for wine tasting fronted by Claire Blackler of Case Studies Wine School, a secret courtyard and two rooms where you can kick back and relax in candlelit comfort. Want a bottle rather than a glass? With 200 wines to select from, you will be spoilt for choice. Behind the sinuous Italian marble bar, there will be some exceptional single malts, fine cognac, Armagnac and Italy’s equivalent to whisky – grappa. Pioneering, sophistication and passion are just a few words to describe what will be one of the UK’s most stylish and innovative Enoteca.
So as they say in Italy – Buon Viaggio!
DiVino
5 Merchant Street
Edinburgh
EH1 2QD