Marchmont Takeaway I’ve been hitting it pretty hard since I’ve been back, catching up with lots of lovely folks and re-exploring my home town. I’ve hit a bit of a wall in the last few days with the reality of the need for sleep and nutritious food finally dawning. I was pondering the extreme need …

Bertie’s I recall many glorious post-school days spent in the Victoria Street cafe called Byzantium. It’s where we went to smoke cigarettes, drink crap coffee and generally think we were the coolest teenagers in the world. Since then the premises have been through many changes including burning down when Khushi’s and resurrecting as a Festival …

Jubilee Supper Room Our Beer Man’s Verdict General busy-ness at work has, sadly, significantly reduced recent opportunities for food and beer questing. However, a late meeting followed by a drive home took me through Granton – so I decided to seize this impromptu opportunity.  This part of town is well served for questing, with a …

Pacific Fish Bar I haven’t quite mastered how to both comprehensively document a bus route for En route, en croute and time my hops on and off to actually stay well fed whilst I go.Exterior One recent consequence of this was that I ended up at the terminus of the 41 at King’s Buildings in …

Mermaid The greatest words to hear when you enter a chip shop in pursuit of fish are the following: “It’ll be five minutes for fish, pal.” Exterior This means that you’re going to get your fish cooked to order as fresh as it can be. The difference between that and fish from the fryer-top warmer …