Cosmo I had offered the no-expense-spent opportunity to the winners of the first season of Spottersbadge League to join me for an all-you-can-eat feast at Cosmo to recognise their achievement. Bizarrely, they were reluctant to immediately take this up. It took until recently for me to get round to planning another visit.Exterior I was joined …

Double Down at KFC I like responding to challenges but some of them are more appealing than others. When a regular reader asked whether I’d tried a new creation from KFC that replaced a burger bun with two pieces of the Colonel’s signature chicken I wasn’t massively inclined to even answer, but curiosity got the …

The Toon A trip to Newcastle! What a smashing way to start the year and ease our way in to an abstemious and thoughtfully restrained 2017.Exterior The first stop in culinary terms what at The Toon, a takeaway near the main site of nightclub chaos, Bigg Market. Once I’d come to terms with the curious …

Babylon Cafe I’d noted the Babylon Cafe near Surgeon’s Hall on many occasions but never had a particular reason to go in. On a strange day when I’d missed breakfast and hadn’t eaten anything until after 1pm, it seemed like a stop to try one of their all-day breakfasts would be a good fit.Exterior The …

The Trashcan Challenge Sometimes silly ideas get wedged in my head. The latest one of these was cooked up in partnership with Jemma of Jemma Eat World fame, who was on a little break back in Edinburgh from her world travels.Exterior The idea was attempting the Trashcan Challenge, a massive platter of meat and stuff …