REVIEW: Small plate dining at Skua

Rosie Morton tries the latest menu at Skua, a Stockbridge eatery that is celebrating its first birthday. The other day, I was sitting in the Stockbridge ‘Neighbourgood’ food market, watching seagulls divebomb unsuspecting merrymakers. Dogs barked, grown men screamed, and chips were sent flying. It was all quite entertaining. Less entertaining would be being dive-bombed by…

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Skotch and Sketch at The Glasshouse, Edinburgh

Grant Dickie heads to a Skotch and Sketch workshop at The Glasshouse, in Edinburgh, to taste their latest dram and try his hand at sketching.  Picture the scene. It’s a warm and intermittently sunny evening, you’re on a stunning rooftop garden, sipping a whisky cocktail, and then you’re asked to draw a still life. Well,…

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Review: Pomelo, Edinburgh

Pomelo is an Edinburgh establishment you always hear about. It’s so popular that you often have to make a reservation weeks in advance to get a table, especially for their collaborative menus. Their focus is on creating innovative Asian fusion dishes using local Scottish produce. ‘Fusion’ is a word I hesitate on when deciding where…

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Review: SUSHISAMBA, Edinburgh

As someone who reviews a lot of restaurants in Edinburgh, there’s a handful of questions which recur on a regular basis. By far the most frequent is “what’s your favourite restaurant?”, but then there are a whole bunch of others jostling for elbow space. Where are the best private dining spaces? Where’s good for gluten-free…

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The Macallan to open new fine dining restaurant on iconic estate

In 2021, The Glenturret Lalique became the first restaurant inside a distillery to achieve Michelin recognition. Just a few years later, it followed it up with a second star, making it one of only two places in Scotland to hold the prestigious award. But now Speyside distillery Macallan could be about to follow in its…

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Review: The Carbon Lounge, Edinburgh

In Edinburgh’s thriving and continuously growing restaurant and nightlife scene, it’s easy to find creative food, atmospheric bars, tasty cocktails, and exciting entertainment.  But how often is it that you find all under one roof? The Carbon Lounge, in Edinburgh’s Cowgate, brings together Sichuan and northern China’s rich and flavourful street-food with nostalgic east-Asian cocktails.…

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