Dry Martini, Barcelona.
2012 started with a wonderful trip to sunny Barcelona with my dear sister Sarah. Had I done the requisite homework investigation into places to go […]
Edinburgh Reviews
Birthday lunch at Urban Angel
According to urban myth (well, my mum, dad and a few select witnesses), the young Miss Appetit was a chatty little tyke, and even sang […]
Gourmet Girl goes to Hula Juice Bar for January’s Bite
This review appears in the January 2012 edition of Bite Magazine. In case you’re still suffering, I’ll whisper it – Happy New Year Biters! Ah, […]
Tidings, traditions and tables
I’m sitting writing this at around 9am on hogmanay morning, the usual unnecessarily early start for a saturday. I just have one of those body […]
Will you, won’t you, Wagamama?
Generally speaking, the arrival of a new chain restaurant is unlikely to get a city’s foodies a-tweetin’ and a talking. Frankie and Benny’s for example. […]
Top Hat and a Taste of Italy
Drink your glass of Vino, and when you’ve had your plate of Scallopino, make them play the Piccolino, the catchy Piccolino. Lyrics to The Piccolino, […]
Review of Kyloe at The Rutland
It’s taken a few weeks to regain my wits after a particularly whirlwind-esque October and November. After what seems like an aeon, my first resto […]
Review of Almost Sunday for Bite Magazine
This review appears in the December edition of Bite Magazine, and can be found online here. We’re sitting at a window table overlooking the Royal […]
Calistoga Restaurant – Review for Bite Magazine
‘Smoky bacon crisps’. The Silver Fox and I are comparing flavour notes on a particularly lush Old Vines Zinfandel, ‘The Predator’. We’re in the […]
Pit-stop lunch at Petit Paris, The grassmarket
My friend Louise and I were in and around the grassmarket yesterday for a trawl through some of the antiques and vintage shops. Grub was […]