70% Buccleuch Arms, St Boswells, Melrose, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson September 27, 2020 Restaurant Review I expect that you’d be delighted if your business won an award, cue lots of shouting from the rooftops. However, imagine the disappointment if all this excitement happened during lockdown, when it was...
80% Ikigai Ramen, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 23, 2020 Restaurant Review There are noodles on the floor, on the window, in his eyebrow and shoe, and draped over the back of the highchair. Babies and ramen. It’s a bit like taking a clown to a...
80% Glaschu, Glasgow, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 22, 2020 Restaurant Review What to wear on my first train trip to Glasgow for five months? There’s a little silky floral number, the Scandi minimal grey linen piece, or the workaday blue one. It’s...
83% Wanderers Kneaded, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 8, 2020 Restaurant Review It’s best not to have a party trick, or you’ll have to do a dolphin impression wherever you go. Same with signature songs and dishes. Black Lace must have got to the point of Agadont and Mary...
Provender, Melrose, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson September 6, 2020 Food, General, Restaurant Review I feel like a tortoise that has been hiding inside its shell; my movements have been limited by Covid-19 restrictions for so long I’m now terrified to venture outwith my local bubble. However, with the...
90% Aizle, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 2, 2020 Restaurant Review At the bottom of Lothian Road, I thought about lying on the pavement, telling him to go without me and letting the seagulls take my eyes. My average step count has plummeted recently. It...
83% Bootlegger’s Bothy, Hopeman, restaurant review Gaby Soutar August 28, 2020 Restaurant Review Come ‘awa’ in!”, says the sign as you enter the village of Hopeman. We were in the area to help clear the house of my much loved late...
80% Minato Sushi, East Lothian and Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar August 28, 2020 Restaurant Review I’m not sure I’d recognise my colleagues. I occasionally wonder if they’d fancy meeting up, but I’ve become a lockdown loner. As much as I love them, even in normal...
75% Paolozzi Restaurant & Bar, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar August 13, 2020 Food, General, In the News, Restaurant Review Notes on inaccurate use of face masks. The reason some people are wearing them underneath their noses must be so they can smell what’s cooking at all the newly reopened...
70% Alandas, Longniddry Bents, takeaway review Gaby Soutar August 5, 2020 Restaurant Review I love a busman’s holiday. Even though I had a recent day off work for (the 15th anniversary of) my 30th birthday, I still had to do a restaurant review. We squeezed in a...