Field, the Food Studio and Joe – Beer Matching Dinners Beer is delicious; food is delicious. But until recently literally no-one knew that beer and food was delicious together. I jest, of course, but the matching of top-notch beers with the finest local produce is still in its relative infancy in Edinburgh restaurants.Beer A couple …

Martin Miller’s Gin at the Last Word Saloon Lightbulb Corpse Reviver There’s little doubt that there has been an explosion of interest and production in the British gin industry over recent years, with the days of Gordon’s n tonic as the only option now firmly behind us. Of those who were at the forefront of …

New interiorPurslane has become a real favourite over the years, so it was great to be visiting once more just after they’d had a very smart refurbishment to freshen the place up. It had been a while since our original review, so a freshen up of that seemed like a good plan, too. I was …

StarterThe Year of Food & Drink is in full flow, with barely a week going by without an event, a launch or a social media happening. Having been at the Treasured Tastes launch earlier in the week, it was lovely to note that an invitation that had been in the diary for a little while …

PosterIt won’t surprise you to hear that sometimes I can be a quite incredible buffoon. The latest manifestation of this was when I turned up at the Traverse Theatre, the other night, to see Broth, the final play in this season’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint series, to be told that I was …