The Peruvian Days are long at the moment. Life feels busy with less time for the simple joys: a sipped martini, a beautifully crafted coronation chicken roll, the list goes on.Stall In one such time compressed moment, as I walked between Waverley and the Parliament, I found a chance to savour a new delight at …

Restaurant Bar & Grill I’d been meaning to give Princes Square in Glasgow a look for some time but had never timed it to good advantage. After a fairly boozy weekend, I thought I’d start the week with something meaty so headed to the Restaurant Bar & Grill on the shopping centre’s second floor.Burrata I …

Miller & Carter I remember when the Miller & Carter steakhouse opened at the Cramond Brig a few years back. I still haven’t made it there for a visit but when a city centre branch opened it lit the appropriate fire under me to cross their threshold.Scallops It was an utterly horrid evening outside with …

Katie’s – NOW CALLED LEFTFIELD Katie’s Diner was a bit of an institution with its neon signs bathing a little corner of the Meadows in pink and blue. After a slow and tortuous decline it wound things up earlier in the year. The name lives on, at least in part, but Katie’s, which opened at …

The Mercat Grill Easter Monday, the sun in the sky and a day to spare before the return to workaday weeds. What to do? With regular guest quester Iain at the helm we set sail for East Lothian.Exterior Our aim was to give the Mercat Grill in Whitecraig a go, although we were prepared for …