Roti Where Patisserie Jacob traded intermittently for some time, Roti has recently taken over. The third restaurant from the team behind Kebabish and nearby Zuhus, it seems to have no connection with Tony Singh’s previous restaurant of the same name other than ploughing a similar Indian tapas furrow. I popped in to check it out …

Spurtleshire Grubcrawl Our most recent Grubcrawl had been an epic adventure through the city centre with stops at El Cartel, Dough and Bar a Vin. We’d eaten a lot of food and it was quite superb.Salad at the Walnut This time we ventured to the area of Spurtleshire, broadly covering the top of Leith and …

The Table I’d been a bit reluctant about The Table, a multi-course fine dining chef’s table experience, as I couldn’t quite work out whether the ten-seat, single-sitting, New Town curio on Dundas Street would work better (or at all) if you went in a two, four or whole restaurant party. Canapes As it turned out, …

ExteriorI had a number of recommendations, over the years, to try Rice Terraces on St Leonard’s Street, but I never found the occasion to visit and was sad to see it had closed when I passed by, a couple of months ago. In its place has arisen a Portuguese restaurant called O Canto Do Passarinho. …

ExteriorAfter a day chasing the Burry Man from one end of South Queensferry to the other we’d built up a considerable appetite, so upon our return to Edinburgh we popped in to Shangrila on Rodney Street. Our party included first time quester Bob and Our Beer Man, who used to dine in this Chinese restaurant …