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...
80% Caddy Mann, Jedburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson June 28, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review Golf is not really my bag, so to speak. I can’t seem to get excited about our iconic sporting game. None the less, I’ve made an exception to try the Caddy Mann, which is handily close to a driving range...
80% LeftField, Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson May 12, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review To the Meadows, one of Edinburgh’s best loved green places with its wide open space, trees and spirals of paths. No matter what the weather is doing you are guaranteed to see folk enjoying the great...
70% Vegetarian institution The Kalpna, restaurant review, Edinburgh Catriona Thomson April 24, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review Perhaps like me, you will remember 1982, a year which saw unemployment figures breach the three million mark, and the Falklands War begin. It also saw ditties such as Don’t You Want Me by The Human League...
High tea at the Signet Library, Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson April 12, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review You can’t beat a Scottish picnic during the Easter holidays. I let my mind rewind to recall a childhood scene decorating eggs in anticipation of hurling them down some hill or other. With our lovingly...
70% Thomas J Walls , Edinburgh, restaurant review Catriona Thomson March 20, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review When you hit your mid-forties, it's not uncommon for your once keen vision to take a tumble over the cliff of age-related farsightedness. Thomas J Walls, Forrest Street, Edinburgh. Picture: Lisa...
70% In Bloom, Glasgow, restaurant review Catriona Thomson December 14, 2017 Food, Restaurant Review In the early 1990s, one band exploded on to the music scene with their raging guitars, angst and attitude. Seattle grunge was suddenly cool, due mainly to Nirvana. Lead singer Kurt Cobain was at the...
