80% Osso at Home Peebles, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson February 28, 2021 Restaurant Review Chopping, dicing, simmering, roasting, melting, mixing, grilling, beating, stirring, liquidising, emulsifying, reducing and chilling, are just a few of the skills employed by Ali McGrath from Osso in Peebles...
63% Ziques takeaway review, Glasgow Rosalind Erskine February 27, 2021 Restaurant Review Reconnecting with an old friend has been one of the positives of the last year. I have found myself chatting or quizzing with school pals on Zoom more regularly in 2020 than in the past ten years. The same...
75% Restaurant Review, Butta Burgers, Edinburgh Gaby Soutar February 10, 2021 Restaurant Review Actor Vincent D’Onofrio put on 70 pounds to play Leonard in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. Apparently, that’s the biggest ever weight increase for a film role. I’ve often thought about what...
80% Underdog, Peebles, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson February 5, 2021 Restaurant Review As a result of the current pandemic we are all getting used to lining up and waiting our turn, so much so that I'm thinking of publishing a manual on the do’s and don't of q-etiquette. Here in the...
75% Mamasan, Glasgow, restaurant (takeaway) review Rosalind Erskine January 31, 2021 Restaurant Review With blue Monday behind us and, what feels like, one of the longest months of the year (thanks in part to another lockdown) almost behind us, a celebration of the small things seems in order. With days...
80% Mark Greenaway Further Afield, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 25, 2021 Restaurant Review Thanks to a few tier-four internet splurges, I’ve got to know my local delivery drivers. They do an excellent job, but it’s always comfortable and dress-down Friday. I’ve seen one of them...
70% Heat@Home pizza from Wood Ovens Wonders, Leadburn, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson January 22, 2021 Restaurant Review In our house we are all beginning to feel the strain of another lockdown, and at times you can cut the emotional tension with a knife. Entirely gone is the plucky can do spirit, of make do and mend from...
87% Julie’s Kopitiam at home, Glasgow, restaurant review Rosalind Erskine January 9, 2021 Restaurant Review During those weird, non days between Christmas and New Year (which were infinitely more non-descript this year), I end up craving something that’s the polar opposite of roast turkey, roast potatoes and huge,...
70% Rak Thai, Melrose, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson December 22, 2020 Restaurant Review As part of my ongoing odyssey to eat at 80 different takeaways around Scotland, I've decided to head to deepest darkest Melrose via Thailand to review a place called Rak Thai. It opened in February this...
90% Alchemilla, Glasgow, Restaurant Review Rosalind Erskine December 6, 2020 Restaurant Review I’m by far not the only one who has rarely left their front doorstep this year. I’ve walked the same route around where I live so often, that even the dog is now bored. A brief sojourn in the Highlands...
