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Burns and a' that we're doing to celebrate our National Bard

Celebrate Robert Burns at Bonnie & Wild and enjoy six days of food and drink specials and tastings, ending in a free traditional Scottish ceilidh on January 30th.

With no better way of honouring Robert Burns’s legacy than gathering together with honest, sonsie folk and enjoying some exceptional Scottish food and drink, we have pulled out all the stops to offer you a wide-ranging Burns feast and festivities.

We’re kicking off the festivities on Burns Day on Saturday January 25, when our kitchens, bars and speciality retailers will be adding seasonal specials to their menus (see below), showing off the innovation and breadth of Scottish fare, and all in honour of Scotland’s National Bard.

The six-day celebration will end in a traditional Scottish ceilidh at the popular Food Hall venue on Thursday January 30th where dancers will be encouraged to take part in the likes of the Gay Gordons, Dashing White Sergent and an Orcadian Strip the Willow to the sound of 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 all-important Address to a Haggis after it is piped in by BBC Scotland weatherman and bagpiper Calum MacColl. Tartan specialists ScotlandShop will also be at the ceilidh to share their expertise about kilts, clans and all things tartan, while also running a poetry competition to mark the occasion.

From Saturday 25th to Thursday 30th, we'll have Burns specials from across our award-winning Food Hall, including a chip shop-style haggis supper from Gary Maclean’s Creel Caught, haggis pizza from east PIZZA, and a haggis-laden burger from El Perro Negro, twice winner of the UK’s best burger. Also on offer is a whisky-fused gelato from Joelato and a fusion of Sri Lankan and Scottish cuisine from Kochchi who have brought back their popular Haggis kotthu, made using traditional haggis, flatbread, vegetables, curry sauce and Sri Lankan spices.

For those looking for a taste of “usquabae”, our Rarity bottle shop will be hosting tasting sessions with Isle of Harris Distillery on January 25th, while our Malt of the Month is from Lochlea Distillery in Ayrshire, produced on a farm where Robert Burns once worked.
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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 at the same time then so much the better.

In recent months we’ve won an excellence from Scotland Food & Drink for our commitment to Scottish provenance, and so with Burns it’s fitting we celebrate his legacy with all the amazing food and drink we have in our food hall, and encourage friends and family to gather together in our marketplace and raise a glass in his name.

— Kate Russell, General Manager

THE FEAST!

Running from Saturday January 25th to Thursday January 30th, Bonnie & Wild’s Burns Feast includes menu specials from:

  • Creel Caught
    • Haggis Supper - Battered Haggis, chips and brown sauce
  • Chooks
    • Chicken Balmoral Burger – Black pepper garlic mayo, haggis patty, chicken thigh, burger cheese and chilli jam. Available single (£13), Meal deal (£16.50) and loaded meal deal (£18.50).
  • El Perro Negro
    • Ode to A Haggis Burger (Double patty, double cheese, marrow butter, Ramsey of Carluke haggis, caramelised onions, house pickles and burger sauce)
  • East Pizzas
    • Dough a Haggis. Special Burns pizza with haggis, black pudding, and 'nduja
  • Kochchi
    • Haggis Kotthu. Sri Lankan kotthu with spicy haggis. Poetry on a plate!
  • Soup & Caboodle
    • Haggis Scotch Egg with whisky sauce and mixed leaf salad
  • Stack & Still
    • Rabbie Buns Stack (Double buttermilk with mash tatties, Macsween Haggis, roasted neeps, crispy kale, and whisky pepper sauce)
  • Illy
    • Mulled Apple juice
  • Joelato
    • Whisky & Marmalade Gelato
    • Cranachan Gelato
    • Honey & Ginger Biscuit Gelato
  • Chulo’s
    • Caramel Shortcake Stuffed Cookie
  • Rarity
    • Isle of Harris Distillery Tasting – Saturday 25th January only.
  • Bars
    • Mocktail: Cup o’ Kindness: made with Feragiaia, ginger syrup, lemon juice and Rapscallion Cranachan soda
    • Cocktail: Auld Acquaintance, made with GlenAllachie 12yo whisky, ginger liqueur and Rapscallion Cranachan soda
    • Malt of the Month: Stout Cask Finish from Lochlea Distillery