9 Herringbone, North Berwick, restaurant review Ashley Davies March 10, 2015 Food, Restaurant Review I can't tell you the number of times I've strolled through Scotland’s many gorgeous holiday towns and felt disappointed by the dining options. There’s pretty much always a chippy, several cafés and tea...
Tom Kitchin’s rhubarb jelly Tom Kitchin March 10, 2015 Recipes For the rhubarb consommé: Place the rhubarb and sugar in a heavy-bottomed pan and slowly heat until all the juice is released. Pass through a sieve and allow to cool slightly, saving small pieces of...
Tom Kitchin’s cauliflower cheese Tom Kitchin March 7, 2015 Food, Recipes Separate the cauliflower into small florets and blanch until just tender in boiling salted water. Leave to cool. In a small pan, gently heat the milk. In a separate medium pan, melt butter, then stir in the...
Tom Kitchin’s sausage and mash Tom Kitchin March 7, 2015 Food, Recipes Preheat the oven to 200C/Gas Mark 6. Scrub the potatoes well. Pour the salt on to a baking tray and lay the potatoes on top. Bake for 1½ hours or until the skins are crisp and the flesh soft. While the...
Tom Kitchin’s fish curry Tom Kitchin March 7, 2015 Food, Recipes For the sauce: Sweat the onions in vegetable oil until soft. Add the chopped pepper to the onions and sweat until soft. Add the curry powder. Cook for several minutes, stirring constantly to avoid burning....
Tom Kitchin’s beer-battered cod cheeks Tom Kitchin March 7, 2015 Food, Recipes Sift the flour, yeast and a pinch of salt into a large bowl and whisk in the beer to give a thick batter. It should be the consistency of very thick double cream and should coat the back of a wooden spoon....
Tom Kitchin’s haggis, neeps and tatties Tom Kitchin March 7, 2015 Food, Recipes For the tatties: Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas Mark 4. Prick the potatoes, place the sea salt on a baking tray and put the potatoes on top. Bake for 1½ hours or until the potatoes are soft. Once cooked, cut in...
5 La Favorita, Edinburgh, restaurant review Richard Bath March 7, 2015 Restaurant Review You don’t go to Jenners for a masonry drill, you don’t go to B&Q for lingerie and you definitely don’t go to Carpet Warehouse for curtains. And, as the great Sir Sean Connery so memorably mused in...
6 The Honours, Glasgow, restaurant review Richard Bath March 7, 2015 Restaurant Review In almost 13 years of reviewing restaurants, encompassing well over 600 articles, this column has only ever given two perfect tens – one to Paul Kitching’s quirky 21212, and the other to Martin Wishart’s...
8 The Hanoi Bike Shop, Glasgow, restaurant review Richard Bath March 7, 2015 Restaurant Review Even if there were legions of Vietnamese restaurants in Glasgow, The Hanoi Bike Shop is so charming, so moreish, that I suspect it would still be the best on offer. A sister of two of Glasgow’s...
