We, it seems, are destined to be the eternal bridesmaid and not the bride I’m afraid!
Of the two potential awards we were on for winning during the last week of May, the Good Food Guide Scottish Restaurant of the Year and the CIS Scottish Chef of the Year, both of which we were finalists [...]
As I’m sure many of you are aware (I’ve sent emails and given out the voting postcards to everyone that’s stayed over the last two months) we are one of the 4 front runners for Good Food Guide Scottish Restaurant of the Year awards 2011. We were runners up last year but I really want [...]
Over the last few months I’ve struggled trying to get to grips with our booking system and the way it treats and takes bookings for our self catering lodges, as a result it has been showing the wrong prices most of the time – too high! I think I have now sorted it though, or [...]
I was just thinking the other day that it had been a long time since I wrote anything new on our blog so it is about time I rectified that situation with some good news.
I’ll start with a big big thank you to all our customers and friends that voted for us in the Scottish [...]
3rd of January and even though it is still a bank holiday up here it feels as though the festive season is now well and truly over for another year, the decorations are still up but only for a couple of more days.
It has been a really bad December for all I think with the [...]
It’s been a strange week this one, firstly the weathers been all over the place. Warm sunny days like today, days so wet that I thought it would never stop raining and cold frosty ones that put paid to my artichokes. But hey that’s Scotland for you. The rain was so heavy on Friday that [...]
The end of September again and our 3 year anniversary slipped by and we almost didn’t notice it, 3 years to the day last Monday.
It’s been a manic summer and the great thing is we are still busy and look like we may well be through to November which will be great. Once again lots [...]
The 2011 Good Food Guide has been published and for the first time Blackaddie is featured. Thank you to everyone that has written to them about us, it really is a guide that goes almost (not entirely) on reader recommendations.
We were anticipating a good entry and while we only scored 4/10 I had said before [...]
I suppose technically summer is over and we are now well into autumn, certainly the garden is starting to show some wear, we’ve even had a frost on a couple of mornings recently. Today however the sun is shinning fit to burst so any thoughts of autumn are pushed to the furthest reaches of the [...]
I know John has been dreading seeing his name appear here but he has no need to worry. For those of you who come to Blackaddie regularly you’ll have found it difficult keeping up with the comings and goings of our Restaurant Managers, I know I have. To date none have lasted that long, I’m [...]