45% Urban Bar & Grill, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar April 11, 2015 Food, Restaurant Review I tried to enter through glass patio doors, part of the smooth black exterior of this rather forbidding new building opposite Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital. I jiggled the door handles of three of...
75% Slighhouse, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar April 4, 2015 Food, Restaurant Review The signs of Fonz-level cool are all there: a bearded barman, grey walls set off by flashes of coral, lighting that resembles a Martin Boyce installation, an obscure name (it references Scottish geologist...
7.5 Riparian Rooms, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar March 21, 2015 Food, Restaurant Review I’d estimate that 97 per cent of people will see this restaurant’s name and will ask themselves what the heck a riparian is. I shall spare you the walk to find a dictionary, the finger work to type it...
95% The Kitchin, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar March 16, 2015 Food, Restaurant Review This Michelin-starred nine-year-old eatery has been refurbished and extended into what was next door’s Chinese restaurant, Chop Chop. I asked the waiter, who was wearing The Kitchin’s smart black...
8 Cafe Tartine, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar March 2, 2015 Food, Restaurant Review When you’re reviewing restaurants, you end up always wanting the next experience to be more exciting than the last. However, thrills are not necessarily what the average muncher seeks. Take Café Tartine,...
