78% Sugo Pasta, Glasgow, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 24, 2020 General 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,...
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...
80% Terra Marique, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 10, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review Never mind cabbage soup or grapefruit. One of the more esoteric weight loss plans of the Seventies was The Sexy Pineapple Diet by Inge and Sten Hegeler. It involved swapping regular food two days a week...
83% Aran, Dunkeld, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 7, 2020 Food, General, Restaurant Review Call emergency book rescue, as the copy of Aran in its namesake cafe is worse than dog-eared. The hardback spine is cracked, the edges of its well-thumbed pages, once virginal white, are crumpled and...
6 of the best bars and restaurants to enjoy views of Edinburgh’s Christmas Rosalind Erskine December 20, 2019 Drink, Food With the capital festooned in its festive finery, here's a selection of bars and restaurants which offer the best views of the Edinburgh's Christmas. Harvey Nichol's Forth Floor A classic Christmas...
15 of the best vegetarian and vegan restaurants to try in Edinburgh Rhona Shennan December 19, 2019 Food A recent survey placed Edinburgh second in a list of the most vegan populated areas in the UK (Glasgow came first), so you won't be surprised to learn that the capital is chock full of incredible meat and...
68% Tattu, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar December 10, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review In Japan, they throw hanami festivals to celebrate the blooming of sakura. These plants are symbolic, as they represent the transience of life, and the Japanese phrase “mono no aware” – the awareness...
75% Le Monde, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar December 10, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review I’m the Christmas police. On the 1 December, I permit you to put up a few tasteful decorations. Don’t be like that neighbour who’s had a flashing-nosed Rudolph and a waving Santa in their window...
75% Piggs, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar November 29, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Cheeseburgers. That was our final meal on a recent visit to Madrid. My defence, apart from mild sunstroke, is that it was a Saturday night, and I had failed to prepare. It got later, the restaurants...
