Author Gaby Soutar

NOISY garden birds are the best thing about spring. If only we could translate their song. This place, in Leith’s Vaults – the former premises of the Vintner Rooms – has a walled cobbled courtyard out...

The last time you could smell smoke in the Cowgate was for a bad reason – when popular venue La Belle Angele burnt down back in 2002. Now there’s a more positive waft, thanks to new bar and restaurant...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...