Cooking, eating and drinking is fun as well as necessary. I do food for fun and I write for a living. Good food makes the world a more delicious and satisfying place. Good writing, meanwhile, can make the world a less confusing place.
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Edinburgh offers a lot of interesting eating experiences all year round. Because the weather’s temperate (never hot, never that cold) we also get markets all year round. This post is a quick round-up of places you can go to buy or eat food.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to have a look at the ‘dine in’ offer at a popular high-street food court. For years, I’ve heard people croon about M&S food and I have been known to dip into their take-away food isle myself. This is the first I’ve tried…
Holyrood Distillery is already creating gin and will be up and running distilling whisky this summer. Meanwhile, there’s a shop which sits in the middle of an area rich in brewing and distilling history. Want to know more? We did so went on a walking tour with Kask Whisky.
I’ve been involved with Edinburgh Foody for almost a decade. In that time, I’ve met a lot of interesting people, eaten a great deal of good food and learnt all kinds of things about food, cooking and the hospitality industry. Sometimes, people I meet will ask me: ‘so, do you…
If you’ve followed foody social media this week, you might have noticed that the Edinburgh Restaurant Awards were announced on Monday night. Amy and I were there.
I’ve been wanting to visit The Gardener’s Cottage for a while. Everyone I know who have gone have really enjoyed it but a combination of my laziness with booking and the need to ensure that Christopher, my darling veggie, can eat, means it just hasn’t happened. You can imagine my…
Mmm. All the cocktails you could want under one roof. I’m having a Cherry Blossom.
Cocktails in the City is an annual Edinburgh event. Bars and spirit producers collaborate on a series of drinks and offer them to an adoring audience. This year, the event was over two days in The Hub. Caroline and Christopher went.
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The Jolly Botanist is on Morrison Street, the bit just before Haymarket. We’ve been going there for gin and tonic since it opened. It’s usually very busy. On the one hand, that can mean fun, random meetings. On the other, it means I sometimes want to go somewhere quieter. And,…
I was at a vegetarian restaurant in Vienna the first time I came across seitan. It was the main ingredient in a couple of the mains and I had never heard of it. I asked, got the wrong end of the answer stick and thought it was a type of…
It’s been 18 months since Amy reviewed Paul Tamburrini’s at The Macdonald Holyrood Hotel. That’s a long time for a restaurant, especially in a place like Edinburgh where the competition is fierce, so it’s interesting to see what’s happened there. We’d been invited to come in for a tasting menu.…
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