Reviews
Review: Kyloe steakhouse, Edinburgh
I’M pretty picky when it comes to meat, and I make no apologies. After all, it’s not unreasonable to question what’s on your plate when parting with hard-earned cash. Where is it from? How was it reared? What are the welfare standards like? All too often, these questions are met with a disinterested shrug of…
Read MoreReview: The Prancing Stag, Glasgow
It would be easy to miss The Prancing Stag, but this small but mighty restaurant tucked away beside Glasgow’s Jordanhill train station is the perfect neighbourhood eatery. These days it’s hard to visit a restaurant you haven’t heard about at some point or another. Whether it’s the buzz around the opening of a new…
Read MoreReview: Mara, Aberdeen
Mara brings fantastic Italian wines and inspired small plates to the Granite City. Grant Dickie heads along to try out the city’s latest eatery. Thursday evening, and after a day of working, nothing is better than escaping the house to wind down with a bottle of wine and some delicious food. Enter Mara. New…
Read MoreReview: An Cala Ciùin, Isle of Mull
In 2022, Isle of Mull hoteliers Les and Meg MacLeod decided it was time to sail off into retirement. Only the second family to own the historic Mishnish Hotel in Tobermory, they had spent eight years at the helm after buying the iconic waterfront business in 2014. But their plans to sell the hotel and…
Read MoreLazy Sundays at Le Petit Beefbar
Morag Bootland relaxes over a leisurely Sunday roast accompanied by soothing live jazz at Le Petit Beefbar on Edinburgh’s George Street. Edinburgh is in the throes of a happy hangover as we wander along George Street on a crisp Sunday afternoon. The city has witnessed an historic triumph at Murrayfield stadium as the Scottish rugby…
Read MoreReview: Rio, Edinburgh ‘The seven different styles of steaks are as good in quality as in quantity’
The best thing about Jamie’s Italian in Edinburgh was the space it occupied in the city centre’s historic Assembly Rooms. With its high ceilings, ornate cornicing, imposing chandeliers, horseshoe bar area and grand proportions, it had a gravitas that wasn’t always matched by the food that was served. Now that the Pukka One has departed…
Read MoreReview: Montrose, Edinburgh
An offshoot of Michelin-starred Timberyard, new restaurant Montrose in Edinburgh’s Abbeyhill district is a chop off the old block, discovers Richard Bath. There will always be Michelin-starred restaurateurs seeking to capitalise on their fame by using it as a springboard to expand their empire. Tom Kitchin has done so with the eclectic quartet of Scran…
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