Tagged Edinburgh takeaway

  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...

    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...

  How I miss a fancy party.   Mind you, I do have a few complaints about that mass catering style of finger food.   Namely that there always seems to be fishy canapés, so you...

    It’s like assembling a jigsaw puzzle of an Arctic landscape.   We have about 30 unlabelled vacuum bags, five or so of which are in various shades of snow white, from nicotine...

  The floor is a bit sticky, but our small kitchen makes for a semi-decent dance studio.   I’m pulling out all the moves. He’s a bit Thunderbirds-like, with zero hip action and creepily...

Just as we round the final corner, our pithivier skids to the left.   “Nooooo!”, I screech, checking all the other precious cargo that’s stacked up on my lap and wedged into the...

  I’m a shady type.   In the summer, there’s no wandering around to look for the perfect hot spot.   You’ll find me lurking behind the shed, dodging the rays as if I’m...

    Face down in syrup isn’t the worst way to go.   When I reviewed this place on its opening three years ago, I mentioned the prevailing rescue advice of administering sugar in...

As the saying goes 'fortune favours the brave', and this has certainly been true for chef Lachlan Archibald and his associate Matt Urry who have fearlessly chosen to launch IN, a fine dining takeaway business...

  We had a family birthday conference on Zoom recently.   As it wrapped up, the subject inevitably turned to what everyone was going to have for dinner.   The others’ teas all...