Tagged eating out

I am told I have a quiet voice, like a catarrh-riddled pygmy shrew. To project and become louder, they say you should open your mouth wide, keep your tongue down and sit up straight. Can’t be bothered,...

Aberdeenshire’s Quayside Restaurant & Fish Bar will now go up against the five other finalists (all from England) to compete for the title of the ‘UK’s best fish and chip restaurant’. Noel Brown...

I was never a nerd at school, apart from a brief period in P6 when I rocked a mullet, NHS aviators and never took off my ski jacket, even through the hot August of ‘85. That may have slotted me temporarily...

Can you recall the day an A-list star descended on Edinburgh’s West End to visit an eatery called Home? A project involving Social Bite and Dean Gassabi of Maison Bleue resulted in cooking with a...

With the growing realisation that Aberdeen is actually a city filled with excellent food styles and dining experiences, we've turned to TripAdvisor to find the best. Their collected reviewers have enjoyed...

Life is like an avocado. It’s pear-shaped, and, at the centre of things, there’s a huge vacuum. Now that I’ve got my existential angst out of the way, I can talk more positively about this fruit,...

When you’re an ever-expanding restaurant reviewer, you’ve got to shoehorn in as many exercise classes as you can. This place was lucky enough to get me after a hot yoga session. I struggled across...

I’m going to escape to my island paradise. Not Barbados, nor the Galapagos (to hang with my tortoise pals). I’ve decided on Inchcailloch, one of the small islands on Loch Lomond. The name, in Gaelic,...

Having spent 35 years eating out as a vegan, gone are the days when people would look at me as though I had just landed from outer space. At that time, just being a vegetarian was thought to be strange...

I hope to be reincarnated as a restaurant reviewer’s plus one. They get to eat all the food, and don’t have to do any work. No aide memoires have to be made while they vacantly shovel in the...