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...
80% The Hawes Inn, South Queensferry, restaurant review Catriona Thomson November 13, 2017 Food, Restaurant Review Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics Treasure Island and The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, has been on my mind, as he was born 167 years ago tomorrow on 13 November, 1850. ‘The elder wean...
60% Horn Milk Bar, Perth, restaurant review Catriona Thomson September 25, 2017 Food, Restaurant Review ‘Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher” – even today it’s still a catchy chant. The Iron Lady has passed on, but in 1971, as Edward Heath’s education secretary, she was responsible for ending free...
Mono Cafe Bar, Glasgow, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson August 10, 2017 Food, Restaurant Review Musical talent was the reason my daughter, Eve and I headed to Glasgow. A classical guitar summer school at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for her meant a week of mother/daughter bonding in student...
A tour of North-East Scotland’s exciting food trail Catriona Thomson June 15, 2015 Farming Producers, Producers Visiting the north-east corner of Scotland, with its endless rolling hillsides leaves you in no doubt you are in the farming heartland of Scotland. Synonymous with the region is Aberdeen Angus beef, and the...
