83% Wanderers Kneaded, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar September 8, 2020 Restaurant Review 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...
80% Minato Sushi, East Lothian and Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar August 28, 2020 Restaurant Review 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...
80% Hickory@Home, Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar July 27, 2020 Restaurant Review 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...
78% Gardener’s Cottage at Home, Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar July 13, 2020 Restaurant Review 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...
85% 83 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar July 9, 2020 Restaurant Review 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...
90% IN, Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar July 3, 2020 Restaurant Review 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...
80% East Pizzas, Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar June 26, 2020 Restaurant Review 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...
80% Honeycomb & Co, Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar June 19, 2020 Food, General, In the News, Restaurant Review 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...
Under the grill: Chef Lachlan Archibald from IN Catriona Thomson June 17, 2020 Food, In the News 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...
85% LeftField, Edinburgh, takeaway review Gaby Soutar June 10, 2020 Restaurant Review 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...
