83% Gloriosa, Glasgow, restaurant review Gaby Soutar March 31, 2020 Food, General, In the News, Restaurant Review My name-that-tune rendition of Baker Street’s instrumental break isn’t going well. Nellie the Elephant? Coronation Street theme tune? Unfortunately, the autopilot on my...
80% The Fat Pheasant, Newton, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson March 15, 2020 Food, In the News, Restaurant Review A lot of choppy water has flowed under the Queensferry Crossing recently, both literally thanks to Storms Ciara and Dennis, and figuratively as it has been on the receiving end of more than its fair share of...
70% McLaren’s on the Corner, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar March 11, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review You’ll find a cauldron of bats and a prudence of vicars in this new venue’s radius. I’m thinking of ecclesiastical collective nouns, since there’s a congregation of four churches on Edinburgh’s...
85% Ka Pao, Glasgow, restaurant review Gaby Soutar March 4, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review My driving instructor chain-smoked menthol cigarettes and barely spoke. I blame her for the teenage me failing my driving test three times, then giving up permanently. Still, I may not have wheels, but...
75% Pomo, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar February 26, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review The kids talk about YOLO (you only live once) and FOMO (fear of missing out). As a middle aged person, I’m more into POMO (pleasure of missing out). There’s something extremely satisfying about...
70% Masti, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar February 18, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review “Here in Edinburgh people have fun everyday and we have added one more place to have fun,” it says on the website of the new Indian street food restaurant, Masti. I feel like such a party pooper, but as...
90% Kinneuchar Inn, Kilconquhar, restaurant review Gaby Soutar February 18, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review I wish I’d brought a comb. After a walk on nearby Elie beach, my hair is as knotted and fibrous as an owl pellet. That’d be bearable, as the Kinneuchar Inn – a whitewashed 17th century building...
70% The Cross Inn Pub and Kitchen, Paxton, restaurant review Catriona Thomson February 16, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review What did you do on 31 January, the day to end all days? Did you wave your flag of choice, symbolising your viewpoint and marking your territory? I pretended it wasn’t happening and headed down the A1, to...
75% Ting Thai Caravan, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar February 5, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review Barbra Streisand had her dog, Samantha, cloned. The results were Miss Violet and Miss Scarlet. She also has a third Coton de Tulear, Miss Fanny, created in a no-petri-dish-involved style. (I just wanted...
75% Paolozzi’s Kitchen, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 31, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review When I was at Edinburgh College of Art in the Nineties, our department took a trip to London. Among other things, we were going to visit the studio of an alumnus – the Italian Scots sculptor Eduardo...
