An Asian restaurant that changes not just its menu but its cuisine every six weeks launches in Edinburgh later this month – with street food from Hong Kong its first culinary inspiration. Uncle Tiger, in Bristo Place on the edge of the Old Town, is the fourth venue from the Òir Group, who also run The […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 25th January 2026 The Guardian The Tin Roof, Maldon, Essex Responding to a tip from a reader, Grace Dent found herself at a hugely popular café and bakery attached to a huge garden centre, where she ate alongside “pensioner […]
Leading Edinburgh chef Roberta Hall-McCarron is to close her restaurant Eleanore at the end of next week for a month-long refurb, after which it will open in a more relaxed incarnation as a neighbourhood bistro. The evening tasting menu will be dropped in favour of a two-or-three-course set menu of ‘bistro classics with a modern […]
A new creative hub that opens next week on the Leith Shore in Edinburgh’s docks has three separate food and drink offers, including an outlet from the team behind the city’s highly regarded restaurants Timberyard and Montrose. Brown’s of Leith has taken over a late-Victorian engineering works which as George Brown & Sons was one […]
Edinburgh chef/restaurateur Stuart Ralston will next week launch a Parisian-style wine bar called Vinette in Broughton Street on the edge of the capital city’s New Town. It is his first venture since the September closure of his flagship Aizle, whose name is preserved in Stuart’s newly branded Aizle Hospitality Group. Vinette, which he is opening […]
A new all-day café and restaurant with a distinctly Irish accent has opened on the harbourside at Newhaven in Edinburgh – just in time to welcome visitors to the Edinburgh Festival. Norah is the debut venture from Dublin-born chef Claire Hanrahan and her partner Andrew Ainsley – and is named after Claire’s late grandmother Norah from […]
Graeme Cheevers of Glasgow’s highly rated Unalome this week launched his second restaurant – Loma, at Cameron House resort hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond. The move marks Graeme’s return to a venue he knows well from his stint as head chef when the restaurant was run by Martin Wishart more than 10 years […]
Edinburgh chef Scott Smith (right in photo) is helping launch a new pub in Stockbridge next week – The Captain Darling – having made the difficult decision to close his highly rated fine-dining restaurant Fhior. Named after a character in classic TV comedy series Blackadder, the new pub is from John Howard (left)‘s Òir Group, […]
Edinburgh chef Roberta Hall-McCarron and her husband Shaun have opened three restaurants in the city in less than seven years – The Little Chartroom, Eleanore and Ardfern – each to both critical and public acclaim. Harden’s caught up with Roberta at Ardfern, the newest of the trio. HARDEN’S: The hospitality industry is struggling around Britain, but […]
Edinburgh-based special events chef Barry Bryson today opens his debut seafood restaurant, Barry Fish, on the historic Leith waterfront. In more than a decade cooking for events, Barry has worked for high-end clients including Jupiter Artland, Glenmorangie, Louis Vuitton, Aston Martin and the British Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay. His pop-ups have included a sold-out season […]
