The Edinburgh Stuff Guide 2018 The “stuff” guide is much as you would expect: a listing of the best places in Edinburgh to get various sorts of…stuff. Let’s start with one of the more hotly debated topics then take it from there. Burgers Many people think we are over-saturated with burger options. I’d counter by …

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Interior“A table in the shipping container, perhaps?” It was certainly one of the odder questions I’d been asked upon arrival at a new restaurant. Various Festival pop-ups have appeared and disappeared in the Forrest Cafe’s former location on Bristo Place, but Checkpoint, although using a name familiar from past endeavours is new, fresh and apparently …

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To be helpful to our visiting friends, here to sample the joys of the Festival City, we thought we’d put together a bumper blast of likely lunch spots, to help you out when hunger strikes. These are the collated thoughts of some of our readers, based on their experiences over recent times. Full reviews of …

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From the outside; hard to photograph due to traffic. The menu! The MQ does retain some of its communal charm. Blythe’s Verdict Over the past few years, the Mosque Kitchen has quickly grown in to an Edinburgh staple, coming in to its own during festival time. Its location, neatly placed between the seething hubs of …

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