Tagged restaurant reviews

When I go to the cinema with my other half, he looks away from the screen when the trailers are on. Spoilers, he calls them. I, on the other hand, love a taster to set me up for what’s to come. Thus,...

You can’t beat a Scottish picnic during the Easter holidays. I let my mind rewind to recall a childhood scene decorating eggs in anticipation of hurling them down some hill or other. With our lovingly...

The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, was once the co-owner of a restaurant called The Gold Platter. They served burgers, catfish, fried chicken and other soul food delights on gilt plates. I’m not sure...

You know what’s annoying when you’re hangry? When people say you might just be dehydrated, because hunger is often mistaken for thirst. Oh great, I’ll cancel my pizza delivery and get them to send...

My mother is clever, wonderful and very good at lots of things. (Hi Mum!). However, even though I probably won’t get my 50p per week pocket money after saying this, cooking ain’t her forte. If we go...

"Yes, and we’re out of alligators too,” says the patient waiter. On our visit to the new Tollcross branch of Bodega, they were sold out of crocodile pie (£5), and I was just wondering if that was...

      This place is like me in any childhood PE class – always last to be picked.   (That may have been down to my resting unenthusiastic face, my flailing arms while...

I like to think that, if I were a dog, I’d be an elegant saluki or Italian greyhound. Instead, it’s more likely that my canine doppelganger would be a doughy shar pei, an elderly chihuahua in a tartan...

Faux flowers have fairly come on, haven’t they? I used to work in a shop that sold them, and they were easily distinguishable from the real thing, what with the frayed polyester petals and plastic blobs...

Lamb chops, mince and gammon steaks. It seems a long time since they were weekday staples. Round at my casa, we don’t eat a lot of meat any more. After a straw poll, it seems that this drift to...