Eating Out

Eat - Spinning Platters

Life & Style

27 Mar 2007

The Meal Glasgow has long trailed Edinburgh when it comes to dedicated vegetarian diners. Some efforts have withered (Indian Asha) while others have adapted to please carnivores (Bay Tree Café). So, in 2007, can the city support ventures that…

A taste of Scotland

News

8 May 2007

Words: Allan Radcliffe Tickets are now on sale for the Taste of Edinburgh festival, which aims to celebrate and promote the capital’s culinary talent as well as Scotland’s world class food, drink and produce. The festival, which runs from Thursday…

Good food - fair price

Dining on a budget

16 Jan 2007

Dining on a budget should not be limited to eating cheap food amid dire surroundings. Restaurateur David Ramsden, formerly of (fitz)Henry and Rogue, and now working with The Outsider and Apartment restaurants in Edinburgh, sees value for money options…

Eat your way along the Fife Coastal Path

A guide to one of Scotland's great food areas by local chef Christopher Trotter

10 May 2010

The 105-mile Fife Coastal Path starts at the Burgh of Culross and winds its way along beach, rough paths, villages and towns to the Tay Bridge in the north. The walk is best completed in sections, and it’s always worth leaving time for some food…

Sixteen again

25 Jun 2009

A few years back, Joel Pomfret worked front-of-house at No Sixteen on Byres Road for Margaret and Ronald Campbell, the couple who had established the bijou restaurant as one of the most fondly regarded bistros in Glasgow’s West End. Working alongside…

We Love Glasgow

1 Oct 2008

Roddy Woomble 'My favourite place in Glasgow’s a restaurant called No. Sixteen. It’s a little neighbourhood bistro of the kind you find more easily in European cities than in Scottish ones - an unpretentious place with incredible food. It’s a…

Eating Histlist

1 Oct 2008

13th Note Café An institution among music fans due to its intimate basement venue and eclectic jukebox, the 13th Note is also popular for its vegetarian meals. Light snacks are served in the main bar area from noon to 5pm and a wider selection of…

Edinburgh Eating Hitlist

1 Oct 2008

Where to eat in the capital.

Scotch Malt Whisky Society restaurant now open to non-members

8 May 2008

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has opened the doors of the Dining Room at 28 Queen Street to non-members, with food courtesy of chef James Freeman.

Eat - Smooth sailing

19 Jun 2007

The Ocean Mist’s story is long and colourful. A steamer-trawler fitted out by the Royal Navy at the tail end of the Great War, she arrived too late for active service, and seemed fated to rust on the dockside. Thanks, however, to KE Guinness (a member…

Eat - Mrs Majhu's

19 Jun 2007

The Meal Byres Road, the undoubted focal point of Glasgow’s West End, is a celebrated street for dining out. With the venerable No Sixteen near its base and the long-popular Café Antipasti nearer the top of the street, there is strength and…

Eat - Side Dishes

19 Jun 2007

• The Grill Room at Edinburgh’s Sheraton Grand has raised the ‘beef stakes’ in Scotland by introducing Australian prime Wagyu beef [pictured] to its menu. A version of the vaunted Japanese Kobe, it’s hand-massaged and fed on a diet of grain and beer.

Life & Style - Eat & Drink

22 May 2007

The Meal When both YoSushi! and the original OKO shut their doors a few years back, some predicted the death knell for sushi in Scotland. The pair were sprawling joints and probably evidence that the local market for cold cooked rice, seaweed and…

Eat - Bijou

8 May 2007

The Meal In the previous issue of The List we announced this year’s Eating & Drinking Guide Awards. One of the places we looked at long and hard this time round when judging the hotly contested Newcomer of the Year category was Bijou, located on the…

Feature - Polish culture

The Pole position

12 Mar 2007

Pictures: Jannica Honey ‘If they wanted to, a Pole could live a whole year here without ever speaking English,’ says Iwana Zurawska, who moved to Edinburgh from Malbork, North Poland in 2003, a year before the country entered the European Union. ‘The…

French without tears

Life & Style - Eat

12 Mar 2007

Could Edinburgh be at the zenith in its history of dining out? It is now home to three Michelin star-holding operations, while several others at the top end of the market have their own share of accolades and loyal custom. The choice is rich, from…

Eat - Masala Jak's

EAST MEETS WILD WEST

28 Feb 2007

Back in the great American goldrush of 1849, as thousands of prospectors flocked west in search of their fortune, one man stood out among them, albeit for panhandling skills of a different kind. His name was Jagir Singh - aka ‘Masala Jak’ - a man who…

Kitchin restaurant - interview

Star turn

12 Feb 2007

I’m in the restaurant speaking to Mr and Mrs Kitchin. It could be a game of Happy Families. It certainly has been for the team at The Kitchin in Leith who, for the last couple of weeks, have been basking in the glory of their newly acquired Michelin…

Plumed Horse - restaurant review

12 Feb 2007

January must have been a difficult month for chef Tony Borthwick. Not only were the workmen back in the restaurant sorting out a few snags after infuriating delays getting the place open before Christmas, but Borthwick also learned that the Plumed…

Side Dishes - food news

Side Dishes

12 Feb 2007

Edinburgh’s Oloroso restaurant is rolling out its twice monthly gourmet wine dinners. On Monday 5 March, fine wine merchant Friarwood hosts a night of burgundy, while on Monday 26 March Edinburgh’s own Villeneuve Wines brings along Australian winemakers…

Where to eat on Valentine's Day

Love is in the fayre

31 Jan 2007

The night of 14 February is traditionally one where restaurants are overrun by couples on their lone dining foray of the year. Spare a thought not only for them (and the sustained periods of silence between courses) but also for the restaurant staff who…

Guy's Restaurant and Bar

Sweet and mellow

31 Jan 2007

When chef/proprietor Guy Cowan first opened his eponymous restaurant on North Street in December 2005, the basement premises with alcoves provided an intimate space which seemed tailor-made for dining. When he relocated across town last November to a…

Authentic Bangladeshi food

Naan finer

16 Jan 2007

Don’t let the celebrity TV chef con you. Cooking at a restaurant is barely comparable to cooking at home.

Ad Lib Restaurant & Bar

Early doors

3 Jan 2007

The best time to review a budding restaurant is probably not in the first week of its operation. Nine times out of ten, the initial fortnight can be bedevilled by a variety of hiccups from staff training lessons still to sink in, to noisy butt-cheek…

Tinderbox's new branch

Tinderbox tripping

3 Jan 2007

My notes read ‘eye popping mental gymnastics.’ What this really means is a borderline hallucinogenic experience. A legal one, I hasten to add, courtesy of the new Tinderbox at Ingram and Montrose streets in Glasgow’s Merchant City.