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Martin Milesis   fake potato  with mushroom earth black olives and corn

UNA Supper Club. Brilliant concept dining location at St Pancras.

It’s the hardest restaurant to find your way into, in spite of its familiarity as a London landmark. Who’d have thought you could eat dinner inside George Gilbert Scott’s clock tower atop St. Pancras station? It actually houses a private penthouse whose Gothic tower enjoys a sometime alter ego as UNA, a South American supper club becoming one of the hottest tickets in town.

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The Glasshouse hotel

The Glasshouse Hotel. An amazing Edinburgh Tardis.

The Glasshouse Hotel  is something of a Tardis: walking past the beautiful old church near Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill, you’d have no idea that the facade leads into a modern 77 room hotel, beautifully designed to both compliment the traditional exterior and to make the most of its scenic setting.

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Andy Mossack eats at the Isle of Eriska Restaurant.near Oban on 300 acres of private island. The big house in spring 2011 3 MB

Isle of Eriska Restaurant. Discover a excellent restaurant on its own Scottish Island

Head chef Ross Stovold has a lot to answer for as far as I am concerned. The former top man at Michelin-starred Alimentum in Cambridge has brought his Michelin magic to the Isle of Eriska restaurant, within the family owned hotel sitting on its very own Scottish island.

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Andy Mossack reviews Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club, and finds a real beauty. Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club10th Green

Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club, Discover a wonderful golf course in Argyle.

Andy Mossack reviews Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club, and finds a real beauty.

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Andy Mossack stays at the Isle of Eriska Hotel and discovers it's not everyday a hotel as its own island.

Isle of Eriska Hotel. Discover a luxury hotel on its own Island in Argyll.

It was late, and we were sitting in the bar with a night cap when a waiter walked by armed with a jug of milk and some bread crumbs. Strange after dinner order I thought, so I followed him. He opened the back door and left them out on the step. Even stranger, must be for a very special guest. “For our badgers” the waiter told me after seeing my perplexed stare. It seems at the Isle of Eriska Hotel even the badgers are well looked after.

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Brilliant Edinburgh festivals and other fancies Edinburgh Festival Fringe credit Janeanne Gilchrist gallery detail

Brilliant Edinburgh festivals and other fancies

When my friends say they’re going to the ‘Edinburgh Festival’ I’m tempted to ask – which one? These days there’s a whole host of them year round – 12, in fact, from the Jazz and Blues fest to the Storytelling to the famous Fringe.

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