90% Balgove Larder and Steak Barn, St Andrews, restaurant review Catriona Thomson August 14, 2019 Farming Producers, Food, General, Restaurant Review In my day the long summer holidays were filled with the dubious pleasures of picking raspberries, usually in the rain. Fun times, dodging wasps for the reward of some pocket money. When I was growing up,...
Join the Breakfast club: The best places to get a healthy morning meal in Edinburgh Catriona Thomson July 18, 2019 Food, General Breakfast, the most important meal of the day? and nothing is finer than the first cup of coffee or biting into a slice of freshly buttered toast. However, better than staying at home in your pj's, munching...
70% Montpeliers, Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson July 14, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Not for nothing is breakfast said to be the most important meal of the day. What could be finer than that first cup of coffee, or biting into freshly buttered toast? However, better than staying at home in...
Ten very good reasons to dine out alone in Edinburgh Catriona Thomson June 25, 2019 Food So is solo dining weird? Of course not. In a recent report (March 2019) from OpenTable, the restaurant booking site they flagged up dining solo as a growing trend with a 160 per cent growth in eating alone...
90% Mono, Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson June 23, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Perhaps I’ve bitten off more than I can chew? This is not something that I’ve ever done before. What was I thinking? Volunteering to go out for dinner alone? I’m fine with grabbing a hasty lunch solo...
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...
