3 Cooks, 3 Main courses and 3 Puddings with the public as judge. The next is on the 30th of Jan.

We are always looking for would be Chefs so if you fancy cooking up a storm contact us on info@cookiescotland.com

The idea is to have some fun through food and get people discussing what they eat. Competitors prepare a main course and a pudding. Our professional chefs will source ingredients and assist with preparation and serving, they will also discuss with you the pros and cons of any culinary idea and give you professional hints and tips along the way. If you are interested or know anyone who might be it would be great to hear from you.

Thanks to everyone who has helped make Cookie become….”More than just a café”

The Hot 100 is a list of Scots who’ve made a sizeable creative splash in 2010. It includes musicians, artists, writers, actors, fashion designers, technological innovators, shop owners, festival directors, record label heads and one mad cyclist.

Cookie..”On Glasgow’s Southside has been shaking up the local eating scene all year with good food, unusual events, a few provocative stunts and huge amounts of energy”

It is a learning curve but we are going to keep going and will revisit some of our ideas from 2010 to make them even better.

Watch out for the all new Cooking Club on Sunday evenings
Live music
Promotion of great Scottish produce in season
Cooking Classes for the next generation
Grow for us and barter with us
Chef Wars

We are always looking for ideas and people who would like to help make Cookie a great resource for its community.

if you are interested in helping email us on info@cookiescotland.com

We have 2 events this week that might be of interest to you and your friends.

On Tuesday night 6.30 pm we will be holding a Cheese and wine. £15. The evening will present a range of wines that Cookie directly imports from small producers in Europe.

Our second event of the week is on Sunday 6.30 pm  with our 5th Chef Wars happening. This is the monthly cooking competition where 3 chef fight it our for a range of Cookie prizes.£20 gives to 3 main course and 3 puddings and a great night.

The production team from the Hairy bikers has been in touch with us and will be in Cookie on Wednesday evening.

There will be a new show running at T time on BBC 2 from the Autumn and they are looking for families to cook as part of a cooking competition to find “Britain’s Best Cooking Family”. Not unlike our own Chef Wars event. We were wondering if you or any body you know would like to compete.

Chef Wars could be a warm up and spring board to greater things. The studio lights await.!!!!!!

Here is a link to the new program. If you are interested please let us know and come along on Wednesday.

http://www.hairybikers.com/index.php?action=latest_news&article=163

It has been about a year since we came up with the concept for Cookie. We were on a family holiday to see our friends at cooking club in Vienna. www.kochklub.at We had magical weekend with the Austrian sculptor Walter Pichler and drove on to Italy. We brain stormed ideas in the car, the name…why Cookie? The Southside, the premises, an empty street, a Thomson building in distress.

The ideas behind Cookie were and are personal and professional interests of ours. Its approach to food comes from our family experiences and  our European connections. Our professional interest in community building, public health, design, art, ecology are all part of our other jobs.

We recognised Nithsdale Road had been a little forgotten and neglected as a commercial road but it had this fantastic double sided property. It is a road of great potential and we hope that in opening a commercial activity like ours we could become a impetuous for regeneration. The back backbone of our idea is a simple one, to create a restaurant with interest which we would be happy to eat in with our kids and our friends.

Cookie has come a long way since then. With lots of ideas under the bridge, some things worked, some things didn’t and some things need time to mature, developing understanding and trust.

Some of our ideas are just getting going, like educational programs, the film club, and the use of bartering for locally produced fruit & veg.

We have been working hard to get things right at Cookie, bring in professional front of house staff to ensure service at Cookie improves. We have been listening to our customers and been taking action to make sure things are tweaked and improved.

Our initial Cooking Club idea needed time to mature, and it is currently hiding under the surface in our popular Chef Wars events. This gives amateur cooks a chance to cook for fellow members of the public, trying out family recipes and their best dishes.

We hope that in time on Monday and Sunday nights the restaurant can be used in a more collective way.For the second half of this year we have an interesting Calandar of events and ideas:

Collective Jam making on the 15th and 22nd of August with NVA

Harvest Glasgow on the 28th at Tramway

Pasta Making in Clarkston library in September and Apple day in Rouken Glen park on Saturday the 11th of September

We hope to open a Farmers market stall in East  Renfrewshire

Stand up comedy will make an appearance in the restaurant after the Edinburgh Festival

On the 21st of September we have a wine education evening with Dr Pamela Clayton and invitation to form the Cookie wine Club.

As October roles in we hope to have the Film club up and going with a junior after schools version linked to Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousin’s 8 1/2 foundation

As always we can be booked for your party or event and our outside catering is growing to popular demand.

On Sundays we hope to introduce a regular Hog Roast when it doesn’t rain and free range roast chickens too available take away or have Sunday lunch with us.

Cookie’s Menu frees up, as things come into season.

Our menu has changed to bring in some fresh ideas. We have restructured the menu to give a clearer definition between starters and main courses. A variety of delicious starters or light lunch ideas are given room as well as interesting seasonal salads .

Here are a few of this weeks specials: Grilled duck liver with Rhubarb Chutney and Camomile smoked salmon. Elder-flower sorbet and Rhubarb brulée.

Our off sales will see a few new names next week

Brachetto d’acqui appears for the summer. This is lovely red, bubbly, strawberry wine. Fruity red fizzy low on alcohol. “Must be nuts….a fruity low on alchohol wine in Glasgow?” Someone said to me… Cookie. It is perfect way to start the evening. “This is perhaps the most delicious, charming wine made today that few people know about.

“http://www.wineloverspage.com/italwineguide/brachetto.phtml

The Gruner Veltiner is now on its way from Mr. Schmid in Austria. So spritzer your evenings with this fantastic mineral melon and lemon wine and pretend you are looking down from the Viennese hills at the Danube.

“while savvy wine lovers have been in the know on Grüner Veltliner for a while now word is also starting to reach those that like wine but don’t necessarily spend all their free time geeking out about it.”

Chef War Round Two!!!

Sunday the 18th. £20 Sunday evening 6.30

3 Chefs 3 mains and 3 puddings.

Book now for this popular sell out event or sign up to cook. You will be given a full training in kitchen by our guys, tips galore and a chance to demonstrate your culinary talent. Last time Martin grabbed the prize with his Lobster and halibut linguini followed up with a Fruity Panna Cotta but Gail and Nick were close on his heals with, Grannies fish, pavlova and bananas and green curry.

Chef Wars