75% Plant Bae, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar October 6, 2020 Restaurant Review Apart from a wheel of cheese, my only other souvenir from our holiday to Arran was near scurvy. My five-a-day routine had tipped into minus territory, dropping to -7 on the day I had a Blackwaterfoot...
Edinburgh chef Barry Bryson returns to Jupiter Artland this month Gaby Soutar October 5, 2020 Food, In the News For fans of Jupiter Artland, a visit has always been a summer activity. However, this year, for the first time, this contemporary sculpture park is opening in the autumn for non-members, from today (5...
70% Pier Brasserie, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar October 2, 2020 Restaurant Review One of my favourite online videos features a seagull strolling into an Aberdeen branch of RS McColl’s and shoplifting a bag of cheese Doritos. Down at the Newhaven end of town, these birds were pestering...
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...
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...
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...