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...
80% Bross Bagels, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 21, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review After a nasty bout of sciatica, I don’t do standing in queues. The one at this new Bross Bagels, which also has outlets on Leith Walk, Portobello High Street and Queensferry Street, snaked out the door...
55% German Doner Kebab, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 17, 2020 Food, General, Restaurant Review Some restaurants have a soft opening, this place had a very hard one. I passed it on the bus on the first night, and it was stowed out, with a red carpet and fire jugglers on the pavement. According to...
70% Sora Lella, Edinburgh, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson January 12, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review It’s that time of year again. While we may have made it through the darkest day, or winter solstice as it is more properly known, there is still the slow, gradual climb out of these dimly-lit early months...
80% Terra Marique, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 10, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review Never mind cabbage soup or grapefruit. One of the more esoteric weight loss plans of the Seventies was The Sexy Pineapple Diet by Inge and Sten Hegeler. It involved swapping regular food two days a week...
83% Aran, Dunkeld, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 7, 2020 Food, General, Restaurant Review Call emergency book rescue, as the copy of Aran in its namesake cafe is worse than dog-eared. The hardback spine is cracked, the edges of its well-thumbed pages, once virginal white, are crumpled and...
80% Partick Duck Club, Glasgow, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson January 5, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review In the 1800s a group of well-heeled Glasgow merchants, bankers and professors used to walk down the old Dumbarton Road every Saturday. Back then Partick was rural and leafy and after their perambulations...
80% Eighty Eight, Glasgow, restaurant review Gaby Soutar December 17, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review "88 Dumbarton Road, please”. “That’s Two Fat Ladies”. This is how you play restaurant bingo with taxi drivers. They know all the city’s institutions – Rogano, “The Chip”, Gamba, La...
