With Edinburgh firmly in the throes of festival reverie, it was rather nice to find a lovely, new place to visit, today. What’s more the place in question is right across from my office, so has a good chance of becoming a regular haunt.Exterior From the folks behind Thistle Street’s excellent Bon Vivant comes Pep …

MJ’s Verdict After trying to get ourselves to a Pomegranate, we finally made it. I could go on and on about my verdict about the food and so forth, but in actuality, since we did a mezze style dinner, all of us tried everything and Blythe did a charming job, so I defer to his verdict …

Outside MJ’s Verdict It was a sad, sad day a few months back when B and I planned to meet and have lunch at Berits and Browns near the top of Leith walk and discovered that it was no longer open. I had heard such great things about it from friends who absolutely loved the …

For reasons I will not explore in depth, I found myself out of the road, trudging through the snow, from 7am, yesterday morning. I had racked up quite a few miles, by the time hunger struck. When it did, I was in the Portobello neighbourhood, so took the opportunity to check out the latest addition …