Arts and Entertainment, Food & Drink

The Last Supper »

At the beginning of the academic year, we told you where to bring the parents when they came to Edinburgh to drop you off to begin your new life. Please now imagine that you have fast-forwarded three and a half years, and are now on the cusp of an even...

Wed 09 May 2012 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

Calistoga Restaurant »

Wed 09 May 2012 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

The Steamie »

Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Monja Prokscha | Read more »

Edinburgh's best food blogs »

There’s only one thing better than eating a delicious meal, and that’s bragging to all your friends about it afterwards. Apparently several of Edinburgh’s residents share this view, because the food blogging community in the capital i...

Wed 25 Apr 2012 by Heather Taylor | Read more »

Raise a glass for a spectacular show »

I am almost certain that most readers of The Journal will be familiar with this conversation: “Do you fancy another drink?” “Yeah, I’m pretty hammered though. We should probably get something to eat.” “Aye, we sho...

Tue 06 Mar 2012 by Adam D'Arcy | Read more »

The Scotch Whisky Experience »

Thu 01 Mar 2012 by Alexander Woolley | Read more »

Kay's Bar »

Thu 01 Mar 2012 by Jared Cohen | Read more »

Tang's »

I think it’s time to confess to being a sushi virgin. As a child, little rolls of seaweed filled with vegetables never seemed like the most appetising of inventions. In growing up, I had an image of sushi restaurants as being far too cool and far...

Wed 15 Feb 2012 by Harriet White | Read more »

In Vino Veritas »

Wine. According to various mythologies around the globe this is the sustenance of the gods, despite my previous assertion that cheese was their comestible of choice. We can all (I think) agree that wine certainly does deserve a certain amount of apprec...

Wed 15 Feb 2012 by Tabitha Standish-Hayes | Read more »

The Mulroy »

When heading out for a Christmas lunch, one expects to merrily succumb to a barrage of cliché dishes, slightly underwhelming cranberry sauce and an overdose of house wine. This year, however, we found a pleasant surprise waiting at the Mulroy, t...

Tue 07 Feb 2012 by Kaylyn Hawkes | Read more »

Upmarket food for downmarket prices »

I always try my best not to follow the crowd when writing up bar and restaurant reviews. I feel it is important to gauge the wider, overall standard of the city’s cuisine rather than judge on one or two of its most famous offerings – as m...

Fri 03 Feb 2012 by Adam D'Arcy | Read more »

Upmarket Fast Food, Part Two »

This past autumn, one of our beloved foodie writers regaled you with tales of the “raging oral fire” of Nando’s and the acceptable beer selection of Illegal Jack’s. Since he is unable to continue his sterling work for the second...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

Sturm und Drams »

'Royal is my Race' is the motto of the Gregor clan, the family which gives its name to the Royal McGregor pub on the Royal Mile. The clan was outlawed for two hundred years by the Campbell clan (perpetrators of the Glencoe massacre in 1692, no less), a...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

Dukes Bar with a difference »

One year before The Clash’s final demise, Joe Strummer took the group on a frantic busking tour around the UK, starting in Nottingham in May of 1985.  During that free tour, “venues” played included Nottingham’s Marks and ...

Thu 19 Jan 2012 by Adam D'Arcy | Read more »

Cuppa tea and a biscuit »

Edinburgh and tea share a long and noble history together. English Breakfast, in spite of its name, was first created in our beloved city, as well as the rare but delectable blend, Blue Lady. Robert Fortune, a University of Edinburgh graduate nam...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by James Orrock, Tabitha Standish-Hayes | Read more »

The Mussel and Steak Bar »

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Harriet White | Read more »

It's always the quiet ones... »

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

Le Salon du Jazz Ecossais »

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Caroline Bottger | Read more »

Edible gold: Edinburgh's cheese shops »

As all sensible people know, cheese is the food of the gods. It is often valuable and a lovely yellow colour, rather like gold. In many ways, it is better than gold, as one can eat it without getting heavy metal poisoning, and it tastes fantastic. It i...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Tabitha Standish-Hayes | Read more »

All shook up »

Partick West is an area most familiar to students living in and around the Hyndland, Jordanhill, Anniesland and Crow Road areas of Glasgow. A little outside the expensive and hugely popular Byres Road area, a wide range of excellent – and equally...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Adam D'Arcy | Read more »