Tagged eating 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...

  We didn’t have a working doorbell until last year.   There was no need, since nobody ever dropped by unexpectedly and I rarely shopped online or ordered takeaway.   If anyone...

  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...

  It seems ages since I had a list of new restaurants to review.   I suppose that scrap of paper is still on my desk at work, alongside the increasingly vacant 2020 diary and my mummified...

  I was planning a mini-break to Athens about now.   Luckily, something stopped me from booking those pre-lockdown flights a few months ago.   Who cares, holidays are overrated,...

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...

‘It’s Kaori! I can see her!” She comes up our path with a paper bag full of food, rings the doorbell and hands the swag over to my husband. As I have met the owner of six-year-old Harajuku Kitchen...

  My name-that-tune rendition of Baker Street’s instrumental break isn’t going well.   Nellie the Elephant? Coronation Street theme tune?   Unfortunately, the autopilot on my...

A lot of choppy water has flowed under the Queensferry Crossing recently, both literally thanks to Storms Ciara and Dennis, and figuratively as it has been on the receiving end of more than its fair share of...

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...