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...
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...
