80% Civerino’s Slice, Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar May 8, 2020 Restaurant Review My sister should have called her baby Zeppole. While pregnant she got hooked on this venue’s cinnamon and sugar-powdered doughnuts. Anyway, my nephew isn’t named after an Italian...
75% Pomo, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar February 26, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review The kids talk about YOLO (you only live once) and FOMO (fear of missing out). As a middle aged person, I’m more into POMO (pleasure of missing out). There’s something extremely satisfying about...
73% Franco Manca, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar October 11, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Glacier, XXX strong, and the fluff-covered Polos at the bottom of your bag. I love them all, so it should be easy, I thought, to find the new pizza chain Franco Manca. Just follow the toothpaste smell of...
80% Razzo Pizza Napoletana, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar July 24, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review I am getting on. My tastebuds are fading, my teeth crumbly and I have to squint to see the small print on menus. Constant reflux and cholesterol deposits in my retinas act as memento moris. With these jolly...
85% The High Dive, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar April 10, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Fitness gear is the new casual diningwear. The combination of leggings, trainers and a singlet says I have earned the right to be here. Whatever I eat is fuel that I will be burning off later in HIIT,...
60% Cold Town House, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar April 5, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review There have been many strange hangover cures. In the first century AD, physician Pliny the Elder suggested eating two raw owl eggs in wine. During the Middle Ages, it was uncooked eel, with the theory that...
75% Pizza Geeks, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar November 16, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review 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...
65% Boston & Hawthorne, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar June 1, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review ‘I was hoping for a new way for me and the family to connect with interesting and outgoing spirits, instead we seem to have summoned a vengeful demon. Now the dog’s dead, my son has burnt down his...
68% Ransacked Black Oven, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar April 20, 2018 Food, Restaurant Review My nieces do V signs in photos. Not with their fingers the sweary way round, because they’d get their Skittles rations docked, but the palm out version. Originally a victory sign in the Second World War,...
75% East Pizzas, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar November 24, 2017 Food, Restaurant Review There’s a competitive pizza turf war going down. With Civerinos Slice to the South, La Favorita to the North and Quattro Zero to the West, it’s like the Capulets and Montagues, Crips and Bloods or...
