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From Monday, pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve alcohol indoors in all areas of Scotland, apart from Moray and Glasgow, until 10.30pm. Cate Devine finds out how the pandemic has helped some independent family restaurants seize the initiative from the big chain restaurants RESTAURANT chains come and go in normal times but the effects of Covid-19 have been exceptionally devastating for hospitality. Some of the best-known restaurant groups are feeling the pinch or facing closures and redundancies. As more people worked from home in a bid to contain the spread of the virus and many...

SEUMAS MacInnes, who has run the Cafe Gandolfi at the heart of Glasgow’s Merchant City for 40 years, is getting ready to re-open the iconic restaurant on April 26 after what he describes as the toughest year of his life. But now he is looking forward to what he believes will be the best years ever for the city centre. “A hard winter often leads to a lovely spring and I think this area is about to blossom in a way we have never seen it before. It has huge potential and it won’t take much for it to become one of the best places to live in Europe.”

ESSAY The Steading was a house in which Tim Stead pioneered the use of locally sourced hardwoods rather than imported timber IT was in November 2020 that Nichola Fletcher decided it was all over. After five years of trying to raise money to save for the nation the remarkable home of craftsman and sculptor Tim Stead, the last funding application had been rejected. She and her colleagues on the Tim Stead Trust had reached the end of the line. Stead, who died in 2000 aged just 48, occupies a unique place in Scotland’s cultural landscape. Even those who are familiar with his most famous wor...

Latest research by global real estate adviser CBRE has revealed a positive end to 2020 for the Aberdeen office market, with a take-up of 155,926 sq ft for the final quarter. While this is down 34% on the same period in 2019, it is 26% up on the five-year average of 123,307 sq ft for Q4. The total take-up of office space in Aberdeen in 2020 was 424,797 sq ft. Although this is again down from 2019’s total of 505,710 sq ft, it is 11.3% above the five-year average and represents Aberdeen’s second-best year for office occupational take-up since the 2014 oil price drop. A further 186,...

The house of a celebrated Scottish sculptor is set to be converted into a cultural attraction after being saved for the nation by mystery benefactors.The Tim Stead Trust had almost given up hope of