5 food and drink experiences in Edinburgh
Our TipLists suggest the places worth knowing about in different themes, categories and locations. This month, we’re going hands-on with food and drink experiences that help you engage with what’s in the glass and what’s on your plate, while still having a good old day out
Edinburgh Food & Drink Academy
7 Queen Street
Want to master Thai curry? Stop your soufflé falling flat? The renamed and relaunched former New Town Cookery School has cooking classes for all levels and ages. Perfect your culinary skills with local chefs, learn the art of wine tasting or get the kids baking with classes spanning continents and every culinary style you could think of.
Foraging With Paul Wedgwood
267 Canongate
Chef Paul Wedgwood leads regular foraging experiences in East Lothian. After collecting pepper dulse from rockpools and scouring ancient woodland for sweet cicely, you’re rewarded with a seven-course lunch including your foraged bounty at Wedgwood The Restaurant.
The Johnnie Walker Experience
145 Princes Street
Johnnie Walker’s Journey Of Flavour is basically the daddy of whisky tours in the capital. With interactive elements, live performances and three cocktails designed to match your own flavour profile, it’s slick, educational and entertaining. Afterwards, head to the 1820 Rooftop Bar for more drinks and phenomenal views.
The Table
3a Dundas Street
A tasting-menu restaurant with a sense of rebellion that’s definitely all about the experience. Just ten places are set around the open kitchen where chef Sean Clark whisks and dices, pausing between courses to explain each decadently plated dish in an ode to Scottish produce.
Take Five
5 Porters Walk
Chef May Ling shares her expertise in Asian cookery (she once cooked for the King of Malaysia) at a series of bao-making workshops in Newington. A super-fun three hours is spent filling, tweaking, steaming and decorating fluffy buns. Leaving with a brood of cute, happy-faced baos, you can’t help but smile.
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This article was written in partnership with The Balvenie.