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Damn, I'm getting a subliminal image. It’s Thunderbirds, as in Thunderbirds Are Go. I can't get it out of my head. From the moment I see the cartoon colours of the restaurant sign then slide into the dining room - all... more from this review

I've recently become a student again after a gap of the best part of a decade, much to the amusement of friends and family who like to make jokes about the student lifestyle: cue, they reckon, for a return to all-night... more from this review

Edinburgh’s restaurant scene burst into life last summer when the Kitchin opened, pricking the city's complacent fine-dining bubble. Its restaurants had got into the bad habit of charging top-whack London prices for... more from this review

When it comes to food, I’m a peasant. That’s not to demean the art of the chef. You've got to respect those dedicated men (and women) who spend whole days making multiple components for sauces and doing painstaking,... more from this review

Thanks to the availability of Polish plumbers, decorators, brickies and joiners, the prospect of doing up houses has become, if not joyous, at least less daunting. With Poles, there is no chasing up the builders when... more from this review

Who needs the Saltire or Lion Rampant when you’ve the Forth Rail Bridge? It ought to be as quintessentially Scottish as the Eiffel Tower is French. Arguably it’s a greater feat of engineering than the latter. As a... more from this review

We all have an inner dialogue with ourselves when we decide what to choose from a menu. I mentally annotate every dish I see with thoughts, and arrive at my decision after a fair amount of pondering. At Bonham, a... more from this review

Like a budget airline, Cafe Fish in Leith is surreptitiously expensive. It offers three courses at dinner for £23, but most of the dishes - probably the ones you'd want - carry supplements. Just as budget air carriers... more from this review

I have passed the Caley Sample Room countless times and never considered going in. From the outside, it looks like a tacky chain pub. Then a little bird told me that there was more to it than meets the eye. There were... more from this review

If someone sounded me out in advance about the wisdom of starting a Californian restaurant in Scotland, I’d have a few tough questions for them, such as, “Are either you, or your chef, Californian or even American?” Then... more from this review

George Street is Edinburgh’s smart shopping street, an upmarket antidote to the anytown-anywhere retail homogeneity of Princes Street. Until recently, however, there was no evidence of any real independent activity on... more from this review

More than a decade after his Chez Jules chain overstretched itself and collapsed, chef Pierre Levicky is gradually re-establishing himself in Edinburgh, first with Chez Pierre in the New Town in 2008, and now with this... more from this review

Last time I reviewed Edinburgh I was on the trail of decent, reasonably authentic Chinese food. This provoked a mini flurry of suggestions from readers. One directed me to the newish Chop Chop on Morrison Street,... more from this review

Non-cooks are easily pleased when they eat out. All the food that lands on their plate is a bit of a mystery anyway, and not understanding the nuts and bolts of putting a meal together, or recognising the labour-saving... more from this review

I was expecting good things from Cucina, the restaurant in the new Hotel Missoni in Edinburgh. Apparently its executive chef is the unimpeachable Giorgio Locatelli whose London restaurants, Locanda Locatelli and... more from this review

Dakota - the redux. I have revisited the Dakota concept, or to be precise, the new Dakota at the Forth Bridge. My first experience of this small chain of foodie hotels was at scenic Eurocentral, where I had a... more from this review

Last week, I was complaining about steak-centred menus. I’m bored stiff with big hunks of meat, centrepieces of plainly cooked protein with their repetitive, unimaginative sidekicks of workaday vegetables and ... more from this review

David Ramsden is one of Edinburgh’s quirkier restaurateurs. When he had characterful (Fitz)henry in Leith, he displayed his wacky decorative style to great effect combining threadbare auction room antiques with... more from this review

I don’t feel the need for Thai food when I’m eating out these days as I now have a private supply. My mother recently returned from Thailand where she went on two one-day cookery courses at £25 a day. This being... more from this review

Hanedan smells and looks good. It has a fantastic extraction system. (Believe me this comes to matter to any critic who doesn’t want to walk out smelling like a chip.) Decorative tiles and atmospheric wrought-iron... more from this review

Edinburgh's Apex International hotel took over a joyless, Stalinist concrete building that was once part of Heriot- Watt University. Anywhere else, this real estate would not have been an attractive proposition, but its... more from this review

I'm always on the lookout for Friday night restaurants. They fulfil a very specific sort of need. By Friday, I'm tired. Our domestic food store has probably run out and I can't work up any enthusiasm for subjecting... more from this review

Hot Hot Chinese is one of a new wave of authentic Chinese restaurants turning up in our cities. I say Chinese, but there's also a Korean connection here, as witnessed by the prominence on the lunchtime menu of kimchee,... more from this review

There is something wonderfully homely about eating in the new Hotel du Vin in Edinburgh. While its sister establishment in Glasgow still offers a fair deal of what's known as "fine dining", the Edinburgh establishment... more from this review

The English notion of the ‘gastropub’ doesn’t seem to have germinated in Scotland. The Scots traditionally keep food and drink separate so, if we are honest, the idea that a pub might be more than a drinking den is... more from this review

A botanical note has taken root in the restaurant world. Floral monikers are all the rage. Down south, there's Arbutus and Hibiscus; in Glasgow, there was Amaryllis. In Edinburgh there is Tiger Lily and now Iris, a hip... more from this review

Financial jitters are hitting the eating out market. The manager of one restaurant in a prosperous urban location reports that, while 90% of the venue's take used to be on credit cards and only 10% was in cash or by... more from this review

Lately, I have been feeling that Edinburgh restaurants are in the doldrums, so much so that when friends ask me to recommend one, much to their puzzlement, I can’t instantly think what to tell them. It seems to me the... more from this review

If you are a foodie, then Dehillerin, near Les Halles, Paris, is not to be missed. To describe it as a kitchenware shop is an understatement. Even the French description - “Le specialiste du material du cuisine depuis... more from this review

To Edinburgh, then, and louche Broughton Street - always good for a decent meal. For a few moments I linger outside the new Polish restaurant, reading the menu. Do I want some battleship-sinking bigos tonight? Nah. I... more from this review