Date :
24/11/2013
Organised by the Scottish Licensed Trade Association and supported by Diageo, Tennent Caledonian Breweries and the VisitScotland Growth Fund, Scotland’s Pubs and Bars: A Story to Tell, is seeking around 100 of the country’s most fascinating pubs and bars to feature on a dedicated website, an accompanying app, as well as daily updates on social media.
The outlet’s story can be anything from a link to a literary figure to serving award-winning food, or it could be a legendary music venue.
Nominations have already been pouring in from all over the country, with entries including a Borders inn frequented by Sir Walter Scott, a pub in Glasgow named after a 19th-century heroine who saved the lives of hundreds of Scottish soldiers and even a bar in Alloa that serves Irn-Bru battered fish suppers.
Bars, and customers, have until Friday 29th November 2013 to make their nominations online. Pubs and bars can nominate themselves by visiting www.theslta.co.uk/Scotlands-Pubs-and-Bars
Consumers can also email their nominations to entry@scotlandspubsandbars.co.uk or by tweeting @ScotlandsPubs. The nominated pub will then be contacted and encouraged to enter.
Scotland’s Pubs and Bars: A Story to Tell will also see each of these pubs put forward a member of staff as their resident ‘storyteller’, who can regale customers with tales of the establishment’s background.
The £120,000 campaign has been match-funded by the VisitScotland Growth Fund.