Mumbai Diners Club Haymarket has been a site of furious hospitality change during my absence. As well as many new openings, a stir around of new and existing businesses saw Shebeen take over the Mumbai Mansion site on Morrison Street, La Casa move in where Shebeen was, and Chinatown on Atholl Place become the Mumbai …

West Room The West Room has been a staple watering hole offering decent if not overly wowing pub food during its fairly lengthy tenure on Queensferry Street. Since my departure to foreign climes it has changed hands and is now the sister bar to St Andrews’ The Seafood Ristorante. It has relaunched with a Venetian …

Pizza Geeks Mansized Naan and Massive Schnitzel’s Verdict We’d both visited the Pizza Geeks street pizza stalls at various locations around the city, so it was exciting to see them open their first shop on Dalry Road. The place is great for a midweek treat. We shared a starter, two pizzas and two glasses of …

The Painted Rooster Massive Schnitzel and Mansize Naan’s verdict The Caffeine Drip always seemed to be busy, surprisingly so given its basement location. But it closed not long ago with The Painted Rooster taking over. We visited for breakfast mindful that the Caffeine Drip was regularly named one of the best places in the city …

Noir Following a leisurely stroll through the city, I found myself on my old stomping ground in the West End so popped in to check on an old favourite cafe.Exterior Noir opened back at the start of 2016. We held a very successful Scran Salon there, and when they were first starting I helped out …