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Who will reign supreme, the French Macaron or the Whoopie Pie?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Everybody loves a cup cake, especially our wee team of foodies, so much so that we have our monthly cup cake decorating evenings in the cafe. However it seems there are a couple of new kids in town. The Whoopie Pie and the French Macaron!
WHOOPIE
The Whoopie Pie originated from Pennsylvania, America and is the new (Read more)

Eggs-Factor

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Easter at Foodie’s is taken just as seriously as Christmas, so we wanted to do something egg-stra special!
Alongside cramming our café full of cute giant chocolate bunnies, and enormous first class Easter eggs from The Chocolate Tree we decided we all needed to get a little creative. Shell I explain? (ok that was a bad (Read more)

The Show Must Go On…

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

It is that time of the year again when Foodies at Holyrood changes the art on the walls. Our new artist is none other than my little sister, Kirsty McLean! Before I stole her back to Edinburgh to work at The Foodie Company Kirsty was a costume designer by trade. Having studied in Brighton and (Read more)

Kirsty’s Radio Debut!

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

On Wednesday the 10th of March, Peter and I loaded the Foodie wagon full of cakes, tea and funky crockery and trundled down the M8 to Glasgow, for my radio debut on the MacAuley and co show which is aired on BBC Radio Scotland every morning at 10 am!
We pulled up to a rather impressive (Read more)

Cake me to heaven…

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Foodies at Holyrood played host to their very first Cupcake decorating event on Thursday the 18th February. And what a night it was….
We had the wonderful Liggy of Liggy’s cakes demonstrating with the help of her trusty assistant Kirsty.
The ladies that attended were greeted with a glass of bubbles and then shown to their seats, (Read more)

What January Blues?

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Christmas feels like it never happened, it’s cold and dreary outside and everyone dreads the alarm clock going off when it’s still pitch black behind the curtains! Well not at Foodies at Holyrood! The New Hot menu is off to a flying start, people are hearing about our baked potatoes and hot ciabattas’ and January (Read more)

Foodies at Holyrood on Reporting Scotland!

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

It was on Friday night when i was sitting munching my tea in front of the telly that all of a sudden i recognised the Foodies menu! (Thank goodness i had just got new ones printed). Mr Hugh Raven was sharing his views on sustainable energy. The BBC had clearly popped the menu in the (Read more)

Let the work begin!

Monday, July 6th, 2009

We are all very excited here at Foodie Head Quarters, The Keys for the retail outlet on Holyrood Road were passed over a few days ago. Exciting!

Expansion for the Foodie Co.

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Well some really exciting news this week! We have just signed the lease on our new retail premises on Holyrood Road, Edinburgh. It is one of the old Beanscene coffee shops. We are totally refurbing it and turning it into a real Foodies paradise.