55% German Doner Kebab, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 17, 2020 Food, General, Restaurant Review Some restaurants have a soft opening, this place had a very hard one. I passed it on the bus on the first night, and it was stowed out, with a red carpet and fire jugglers on the pavement. According to...
70% Sora Lella, Edinburgh, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson January 12, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review It’s that time of year again. While we may have made it through the darkest day, or winter solstice as it is more properly known, there is still the slow, gradual climb out of these dimly-lit early months...
80% Terra Marique, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 10, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review Never mind cabbage soup or grapefruit. One of the more esoteric weight loss plans of the Seventies was The Sexy Pineapple Diet by Inge and Sten Hegeler. It involved swapping regular food two days a week...
83% Aran, Dunkeld, restaurant review Gaby Soutar January 7, 2020 Food, General, Restaurant Review Call emergency book rescue, as the copy of Aran in its namesake cafe is worse than dog-eared. The hardback spine is cracked, the edges of its well-thumbed pages, once virginal white, are crumpled and...
80% Partick Duck Club, Glasgow, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson January 5, 2020 Food, Restaurant Review In the 1800s a group of well-heeled Glasgow merchants, bankers and professors used to walk down the old Dumbarton Road every Saturday. Back then Partick was rural and leafy and after their perambulations...
80% Eighty Eight, Glasgow, restaurant review Gaby Soutar December 17, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review "88 Dumbarton Road, please”. “That’s Two Fat Ladies”. This is how you play restaurant bingo with taxi drivers. They know all the city’s institutions – Rogano, “The Chip”, Gamba, La...
68% Tattu, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar December 10, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review In Japan, they throw hanami festivals to celebrate the blooming of sakura. These plants are symbolic, as they represent the transience of life, and the Japanese phrase “mono no aware” – the awareness...
75% Le Monde, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar December 10, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review I’m the Christmas police. On the 1 December, I permit you to put up a few tasteful decorations. Don’t be like that neighbour who’s had a flashing-nosed Rudolph and a waving Santa in their window...
70% The Radhuni, Loanhead, Restaurant Review Catriona Thomson December 2, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review At this time of year the forecast is for temperatures to plummet, and the big freeze is to make an appearance very soon. It might be chilly outside but inside our house it was utterly Baltic, resembling a...
75% Piggs, Edinburgh, restaurant review Gaby Soutar November 29, 2019 Food, Restaurant Review Cheeseburgers. That was our final meal on a recent visit to Madrid. My defence, apart from mild sunstroke, is that it was a Saturday night, and I had failed to prepare. It got later, the restaurants...
