A couple of months ago, the Hotel du Vin chain launched Sunday brunch. Forget everything you know about brunch: Hotel du Vin’s offering is something else. We’re not talking a stack of American pancakes with syrup and blueberries, or even eggs Florentine. We’re talking four courses of fabulous food. At…
We’re standing in the The Pompadour by Galvin Restaurant at The Caledonian, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Edinburgh. It’s a room beloved of many Edinburgh residents who have partaken tea there over the years. Now it is an elegant, warm room decorated in pastels and includes the original Chinese panels.…
Brunswick Street is tucked in to the area between Elm Row and London Road. The row of houses that No 11 is part of is surprisingly elegant. They break with the rest of the street: elegant pillars hold porticoes that double a balconies over the entrance. The buildings are four…
This review is in partnership with Match.com Those of us who live in this city know the expression well. “Edinburgh is a village”. It’s actually more like many villages each with its different identity, something that visitors to the city could well miss. I enjoyed my walk down from Princes…
I had the fortune to interview Paul Tamburrini last year, before The Honours opened. Conceived as a more relaxed, casual dining experience than Martin Wishart’s eponymous restaurant in Leith, The Honours is a high quality brasserie on North Castle Street. Six of us got together a couple of Saturdays ago…
For the last few weeks, hundreds of cars have been snaking into the Krispy Kreme take away in Edinburgh. It’s hard to understand the charm of a sweet, calorie filled, expensive doughnut. But maybe it’s the drive in that’s part of the appeal? Diners who live in an around Linlithgow…
Kirsti Wishart lives, works and eats in Edinburgh. Her short story, The Pleasure Palace, can be found alongside Caroline’s in ‘The Seven Wonders of Scotland’ anthology published by Birlinn. It features cake. A lot of cake. She went to the National Library of Scotland to see Tom Kitchin talk of what inspired him…
I am sure you’re the same as me, when you work in a particular part of the city you tend to frequent places close by. It’s tough when you’ve little time to spare. But there are also days when you do have some time off, and walking just that few…
The last time we went to an Indian restaurant was Itihaas in Dalkeith. There I had a lovely lamb dish that I’d never seen before: lamb shatkora. Shatkora are Bengali citrus fruits with a strong, limey, bitter flavour. They are wonderful in savoury dishes and I was very excited to…
The growing demand for Union of Genius soups has prompted the plans for a commercial kitchen where they can increased the amount of soup made whilst at the same time being able to maintain the quality and the personal touch.
