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Bonnie & Wild’s Burns ‘feast’ and free ceilidh

Jan 18

2 min read

Edinburgh food hall Bonnie & Wild is holding a week-long celebration of Robert Burns, culminating in a free ceilidh for up to 400 guests.

 

Starting from Burns Night, Saturday 25 January, through to Thursday 30 January, Bonnie & Wild’s kitchens, bars and speciality retailers are featuring Burns ‘specials’, in honour of Scotland’s best-known poet.

 

Bonnie & Wild, which is based in the St James Quarter, is home to 13 independent Scottish kitchens and specialist retailers. Specials available through the week will include a ‘chip-shop-style’ haggis supper, from seafood specialists, Creel Caught, by Gary McLean, a Masterchef: The Professionals winner; haggis pizza from east PIZZAs; and a haggis burger from El Perro Negro, a two-time winner in the National Burger Awards. 


Also on offer is a whisky-infused gelato from Joelato and a fusion of Sri Lankan and Scottish cuisine from Kochchi, such as their haggis kotthu (haggis, flatbread, vegetables, curry sauce and Sri Lankan spices).


Bonnie & Wild’s Rarity bottle shop will be hosting tasting sessions with the Isle of Harris distillery on 25 January.  Rarity’s malt of the month is from Lochlea Distillery in Ayrshire, produced on a farm where Robert Burns once worked.


The six-day celebration will conclude with a ceilidh at Bonnie & Wild, where dancers can participate in the likes of the Gay Gordons, Dashing White Sergeant and an Orcadian Strip the Willow to traditional Scottish music from the Charlie Kirkpatrick trio.


Renowned Scots musician Charlie Kirkpatrick will be on hand to lead the dancing and will also deliver the Address to a Haggis, after the haggis is piped in by BBC Scotland weatherman and bagpiper Calum MacColl. Tartan specialists ScotlandShop will be on hand at the ceilidh to share their expertise about kilts, clans and tartan. They are also running a poetry competition to mark the occasion.  


Kate Russell, Bonnie & Wild’s general manager, said: “So much of Burns’s poetry and song was about food and drink, good company and good cheer, so it’s the perfect reason for all of us within Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish marketplace to show off the breadth and depth of Scottish fare on offer here. And if we can have a dram and a dance too, then so much the better.


She added: “In recent months we’ve won an award from Scotland Food & Drink for our commitment to Scottish provenance, and so it’s fitting we celebrate the legacy of Robert Burns by encouraging friends and family to gather together here and raise a glass in his name.”


www.bonnieandwildmarket.com

 


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