This is the campaign for public diners 🔹
This is the campaign for state supported restaurants that serve good meals at low prices; for regular eating places that don’t break our health, our climate or our banks.
Public diners will sit alongside our public parks, public libraries, public transport and set a better standard for how we do food 🔹
Could the #PublicDiner movement go global?
@nourishscotland are delighted to be part of the International Network for Public Restaurants, a brand new worldwide grouping, which launches on 9 June with an open-to-all webinar.
With guest speakers from existing public restaurants from as far afield as Brazil and Türkiye - the webinar will highlight the concept of public restaurants as a policy option for governments around the world. And you can contribute your thoughts and ideas too.
To sign up, just click the link /e/launch-webinar-international-network-for-public-restaurants-tickets-1988514678934?aff=oddtdtcreator
It's alive! Today sees the launch of our new website. You can find out all about the thinking behind the public diner movement here. And as the launch of the pilot #PublicDiner in Dundee approaches we'll be posting regular updates about it on the site too
Dundee will see a pilot #PublicDiner open later this summer. You can read all about how an extensive public consultation process contributed many brilliant ideas in our "Public Diners: By the public" report /wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Public_Diners_report_RGB_SCREEN-1.pdf
There's been lots going behind the scenes as Nourish Scotland's pilot #PublicDiner project in Dundee starts to take shape. The project caterer and a venue for the diner will be announced soon, and we'll also have a new website cooking. Watch this space, folks.
New event added 🔹🔹🔹
Bary mleczne event: 20 July 12:30 – 3:30pm
Join us for lunch and a chat about Poland’s public diners - milk bars (bary mleczne) - and how this model of publicly subsidised diners might work here in Scotland.
Book your spot here: tinyurl.com/en886ujp
Public diners are here for the long run 🔹
They are places we know and love - places we can rely on to be there whenever we need a home cooked lunch. Public diners are part of the fabric of our neighbourhoods, towns and cities.
When we are building public diners we are building an institution that will be here for the long haul 🔹🔹🔹
The menus at public diners model good food culture: sustainably sourced, well made, culturally valued, good for our health and tasty 🔹
Public diners help set better standards for how we do food and they protect our right to food.
Serving real good food is a core principle of public diners 🔹🔹🔹
Public diners are shaped by us 🔷
Public diners democratise our food environment. They are places where we are citizens, not only consumers - places where producers, workers, customers are clear on how they can influence how food is done in their neighbourhood.
Participatory governance is a core principle of public diners 🔹🔹🔹
Public diners are places we all want to dine 🔹
They look, feel, smell like a restaurant. Beautiful and comfortable places we can eat out at more than once a week. A homely dining room way from home 🔹🔹🔹
Public diners are universal 🔹
We can all use and enjoy our public parks, we can all use and enjoy our public diners. Public diners are for everyone.
3 more principles to come, 3 more days until the exhibition goes live! If you would like to attend the launch event on Monday, please email [email protected] or send us a DM 🔹🔹🔹
