70% Elphinstone Hotel, Biggar, restaurant review Catriona Thomson May 12, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Political shenanigans and recent European events have got me thinking; perhaps we might have forgotten our own recent history. For instance, Bill (90) our sprightly neighbour, recalls as a lad gawping, at...
80% Cheese Lounge by IJ Mellis, Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson April 16, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Like Wallace from the Aardman Animations movies, I’m just crackers about cheese. So I’m delighted to sample the stuff of my dreams at this eatery whose name conjures up images of a hip jazz club, but is...
80% No 1 The Grange, Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson March 18, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review As the daughter of a geography teacher, I quickly learned that maps are a glorious thing. Yawn. In fairness, the minutiae of maps are interesting and provide us with a valuable and fascinating record of...
80% Cornhill castle, Biggar restaurant review Catriona Thomson February 8, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review For the less romantic among our readers here’s a reminder that Valentine’s Day will soon be upon us. I hold no truck with any of that sappy stuff, so the other half is under no pressure. I don’t...
50% Karma Kebab, Edinburgh, Restaurant review Catriona Thomson January 23, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Mother Nature produces some mind-boggling feats of navigation; swallows flying around the globe to Africa, salmon swimming upstream to spawn or wildebeest braving crocodiles as they migrate across rivers to...
80% Rustom, Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson January 20, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review January is traditionally the month when travel companies bombard you with enticing adverts, which sows the seeds of a desire to journey to the latest must-see destinations. They are experts at tempting you...
80% Vesta, Edinburgh, Restaurant review Catriona Thomson November 14, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review Can you recall the day an A-list star descended on Edinburgh’s West End to visit an eatery called Home? A project involving Social Bite and Dean Gassabi of Maison Bleue resulted in cooking with a...
50% Bentoya, Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson October 11, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review These days young people have sophisticated palates. They are unfazed by globetrotting around the world with their knives and forks. Mexican on Monday, followed by an Italian on Tuesday, and a cheeky wee...
70% Beetroot Sauvage, restaurant review, Edinburgh Catriona Thomson August 15, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review Vinyasa, Chi Kung, Nidra, Tai Chi are not the names of delicious dishes on a menu, just a small selection of the therapies and classes on offer at the Edinburgh Community Yoga social enterprise just off...
70% The Tinto Hotel, Symington, restaurant review Catriona Thomson July 18, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review There is nothing better than a food adventure, discovering a venue you haven’t been to before. We are on the trail of a hot social media post which tipped us off about The Tinto Hotel near Biggar. Their...
