Tagged restaurant reviews

  The collage of printed menus spelt TAKEAWAY.   It was hard to see inside, because there were so many of them taped to the window.   I’m finding it tricky to rate...

  Under lockdown, our favourite restaurants’ takeaway offerings seem to fall into a couple of groups. They either want to treat you like the princess/prince/poodle you most blatantly are, by helping...

  We didn’t have a working doorbell until last year.   There was no need, since nobody ever dropped by unexpectedly and I rarely shopped online or ordered takeaway.   If anyone...

These are strange times in which we are living and regular restaurant reviews have rightly been put on the back burner. My family and I have got used to the unique joys of communal living, working and...

  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...

  I was planning a mini-break to Athens about now.   Luckily, something stopped me from booking those pre-lockdown flights a few months ago.   Who cares, holidays are overrated,...

By the time you read this, Alby’s might be open again. When I visited this sandwich place, a couple of weeks ago, we were in pre-lockdown limbo and it had switched to takeaway and delivery within EH6 mode...

  My name-that-tune rendition of Baker Street’s instrumental break isn’t going well.   Nellie the Elephant? Coronation Street theme tune?   Unfortunately, the autopilot on my...

A lot of choppy water has flowed under the Queensferry Crossing recently, both literally thanks to Storms Ciara and Dennis, and figuratively as it has been on the receiving end of more than its fair share of...

You’ll find a cauldron of bats and a prudence of vicars in this new venue’s radius. I’m thinking of ecclesiastical collective nouns, since there’s a congregation of four churches on Edinburgh’s...