Tagged dining out

  The collage of printed menus spelt TAKEAWAY.   It was hard to see inside, because there were so many of them taped to the window.   I’m finding it tricky to rate...

  In the greenhouse, the sofas may be empty, but apricot blossoms have appeared, like white lace cuffs, on the edges of branches.   The staff pollinated these earlier in the year with goose...

By the time you read this, Alby’s might be open again. When I visited this sandwich place, a couple of weeks ago, we were in pre-lockdown limbo and it had switched to takeaway and delivery within EH6 mode...

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...

There are 10 Michelin Star eateries dotted around the country - here’s a full list. Restaurant Andrew Fairlie Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, PH3 1NF Andew Fairlie is the only restaurant in Scotland to...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

  An editor once asked me to start rating restaurants out of five according to how dog-friendly they were.   Two points might mean, we allow them in, but there will be no petting permitted,...