Chop House Bruntsfield The Compass Group look to be going from strength to strength. Since their early days with Sygn and Monteith’s, they’ve progressed to the outstanding White Horse Seafood & Oyster Bar and now three branches of the Chop House steakhouse brand.Oysters I visited their original branch in Leith shortly after it opened and …

Jones & Son at Century General Store It had been very remiss of me not to visit the Jones & Son pop-up at Century General Store before now, so I was glad to rectify that on a brisk Friday evening.Burger, fries Century General is an excellent cafe and one that has become my staple coffee …

Katie’s – NOW CALLED LEFTFIELD Katie’s Diner was a bit of an institution with its neon signs bathing a little corner of the Meadows in pink and blue. After a slow and tortuous decline it wound things up earlier in the year. The name lives on, at least in part, but Katie’s, which opened at …

White Sushi I’d spotted that Polish favourite Yellow Bench had moved next door to new premises with their old shop taken over by White Sushi, a Japanese place retaining – I think – the same owners as before but obviously making a considerable shift in culinary direction.Sushi and sashimi set After visiting Brendan MacNeill’s excellent …

Roti Where Patisserie Jacob traded intermittently for some time, Roti has recently taken over. The third restaurant from the team behind Kebabish and nearby Zuhus, it seems to have no connection with Tony Singh’s previous restaurant of the same name other than ploughing a similar Indian tapas furrow. I popped in to check it out …