Restaurant Review

  My nieces do V signs in photos. Not with their fingers the sweary way round, because they’d get their Skittles rations docked, but the palm out version.   Originally a victory sign in...

When I go to the cinema with my other half, he looks away from the screen when the trailers are on. Spoilers, he calls them. I, on the other hand, love a taster to set me up for what’s to come. Thus,...

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...

"All by myself, don’t wanna be, all by myself, anymore”. It was inevitable that one day, I’d be humming that terrible Celine Dion song on the way to a restaurant review. I’ve had a consistent...

The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, was once the co-owner of a restaurant called The Gold Platter. They served burgers, catfish, fried chicken and other soul food delights on gilt plates. I’m not sure...

You know what’s annoying when you’re hangry? When people say you might just be dehydrated, because hunger is often mistaken for thirst. Oh great, I’ll cancel my pizza delivery and get them to send...

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...

I have a muesli wardrobe. It’s stocked with about five different varieties, from the bulk oaty variety, via a brown-sugar crusted granola and a puffed rice thing with coconut shavings. In the morning,...

My mother is clever, wonderful and very good at lots of things. (Hi Mum!). However, even though I probably won’t get my 50p per week pocket money after saying this, cooking ain’t her forte. If we go...

"Yes, and we’re out of alligators too,” says the patient waiter. On our visit to the new Tollcross branch of Bodega, they were sold out of crocodile pie (£5), and I was just wondering if that was...