A specialist smokehouse restaurant has become the first in Edinburgh to embrace an eco-friendly initiative which offers fantastic bargains to hungry customers – while reducing food waste.
Reekie’s Smokehouse, on Holyrood Road, is an independent, husband-and-wife run restaurant that uses classic American BBQ techniques to smoke top quality local meats with a Scottish twist.
Now the popular joint has signed up to Too Good To Go, an environmental social enterprise which – through an online app – links hungry customers with food from local restaurants that would otherwise be thrown away at the end of the night. Through the innovative scheme, Edinburgh food lovers can collect authentic smoked items from Reekie’s carefully crafted menu just after the restaurant closes at 9pm, and for as little as £3.80 per person.
Reekie’s Smokehouse’s menu features a variety of locally sourced, slow cooked meats including tasty pork shoulder and mouth-watering ribs from specially selected Scottish Pork. It also offers succulent beef brisket using Scotch Beef PGI, the legal protection which guarantees the meat is from an approved Scottish farm. The restaurant prides itself on using only 100% Scottish meats and local produce where possible with uniquely specified quality meats from East Lothian butcher J Gilmour, locally supplied vegetables, honey, and small-hold free range eggs. All of these can be drizzled in Reekie’s exclusive, made-from-scratch Scottish-themed sauces such as Buckie Broon, Whisky Jerk, Craft Beer Mustard and the must-try Irn Bru BBQ. All drinks from beer to soft drinks are also Scottish with a great range of craft beers and local sodas and juices. Even the coffee roast was designed by Craig and Felicity and is produced by Home Ground Coffee in Cardross.
Reekie’s Smokehouse is now open Tuesday – Saturday 11:30am to 9pm. More information can be found on the website at: http://www.reekiessmokehouse.co.uk/
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