{"id":74397,"date":"2025-05-04T17:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74397\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T17:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T17:39:29","slug":"seafood-festival-this-weekend-at-st-james-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74397\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafood Festival this weekend at St James Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Wondering where to go this weekend? St James Quarter has their seafood festival on \u2013 including on Monday. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edinburgh-Seafood-Festival-20250503-_A7R002820250503.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595697\"  \/>Edinburgh Seafood Festival, St James Quarter 03-05 May 2025. \u00a9 2025 Martin McAdam<img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edinburgh-Seafood-Festival-20250503-_A7R002120250503.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595695\"  \/>Edinburgh Seafood Festival, St James Quarter 03-05 May 2025. \u00a9 2025 Martin McAdam<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie &amp; Wild is hosting the \u201cBattle of the Chefs\u201d as part of the Edinburgh Seafood Festival at the St James Quarter. Sure to be a hot contest, some of Scotland\u2019s best chefs will be showing off their cooking skills, banter and favourite dishes to 80 guests and judges. <\/p>\n<p>Joining MasterChef: The Professionals Winner Gary Maclean and TV Chef Jimmy Lee are four chefs well experienced in winning awards and catering to discerning foodies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edinburgh-Seafood-Festival-20250503-_A7R001920250503.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595694\"  \/>Edinburgh Seafood Festival, St James Quarter 03-05 May 2025. \u00a9 2025 Martin McAdam<\/p>\n<p>Suki Jayaratne and Shehan Fernando of Kochchi won UK and Scottish Street Food awards for their Sri Lankan kitchen Kochchi, Nick Watkins of El Perro Negro has twice won UK Burger of the Year and recently won Burger Chef of the Year, while Ivan Stein co-founded the acclaimed restaurant The Gannet, and more recently launched Chooks at Bonnie &amp; Wild.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the chefs will be cooking dishes designed to delight diners as part of the Edinburgh Seafood Festival at the St James Quarter. Each of the chefs will be hoping to woo guests, score the most points and win the coveted \u201cBonniest Chef\u201d title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gary Maclean said: \u201cOne of the very best things about Bonnie &amp; Wild is the collaborative, convivial atmosphere we have here. This Battle of the Chefs event is all about putting on some great food with some great people, and everyone having a bit of fun, friendly competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Edinburgh-Seafood-Festival-20250503-_A7R002420250503.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-595696\"  \/>Edinburgh Seafood Festival, St James Quarter 03-05 May 2025. \u00a9 2025 Martin McAdam<a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/seafood-festival-this-weekend-at-st-james-quarter\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746380369_88_pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/seafood-festival-this-weekend-at-st-james-quarter\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746380369_957_print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/phyllis-stephen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746380369_410_Phyllis-Summer-2022-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.<br \/>Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wondering where to go this weekend? 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