Chef Dan Ashmore has closed his Edinburgh live-fire restaurant ASKR after just six months and will take up a post as executive chef at the Schloss Roxburghe spa hotel, near Kelso in the Borders, later this month. Backed by the Dean Banks group, for which he was restaurant director, Dan opened ASKR – apparently an old […]
A chef couple from Edinburgh have opened their first restaurant, Nàdair, serving a daily-changing five-course set menu that celebrates prime Scottish ingredients. Head chef Alan Keery and pastry chef Sarah Baldry met while working together in the kitchen at one of the city’s leading restaurants, Wedgwood. The 20-cover Nàdair (Gaelic for ‘nature’), on Roseneath Street […]
Veteran Edinburgh restaurateur Ignacio ‘Iggy’ Campos opens his latest venture next Wednesday (August 14) – a wine and tapas bar called Cata in Northwest Circus Place, Stockbridge. Now aged 72, he announced the opening with a social media post proclaiming “Iggy is back in business!” – “In Spanish, Cata means to taste, to try or a tasting of […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 16th June 2024 Evening Standard Paulette, Maida Vale David Ellis had never given a five-star review before his visit to this neighbourhood bistro in the heart of Maida Vale, “on the grounds that nothing is perfect”. And neither was […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 2nd June 2024 Evening Standard The Hero, Maida Vale “This might just be the best-looking pub in the world”, pronounced David Ellis in his review of the latest project from the team behind the Pelican in Notting Hill and the […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 19th May 2024 Evening Standard Roe, Canary Wharf Jimi Famurewa delivered the first verdict on the “unfathomably huge” Canary Wharf follow-up to St James’s Market hit Fallow, and it’s a certified thumbs-up: “Roe is both big and clever,” he […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 21st April 2024 The Evening Standard Crispin at Studio Voltaire, Clapham Jimi Famurewa was impressed by the latest expansion of the East London-based Crispin brand, which “cements founding restaurateur Dom Hamdy’s HAM group as one of the capital’s most […]
Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 7th April 2024 The Evening Standard The Shoap, Angel Jimi Famurewa thoroughly enjoyed himself at this “hybrid cafe, food shop and bar that bills itself as ‘London’s first Scottish deli’”, from Glaswegian former economist Gregg Boyd – a “brilliant … invigorating, […]
A hotshot chef from the US West Coast has closed down his Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant and transferred it to Edinburgh after falling in love with the Scottish capital on a family holiday. Rodney Wages has opened in Avery Edinburgh in St Stephens Street, taking over the basement site of former restaurant The Stockbridge, which […]
Prolific young Edinburgh chef Tomás Gormley will next week unveil his ambitious restaurant Cardinal, an “intimate” spot on the edge of the city’s New Town serving a 13-course tasting menu. It is the third new restaurant from Tomás in four years, following Heron in Leith and Skua in Stockbridge. But these two were in partnership […]
