FOOD & DRINK
eating &
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EDINBURGH
The Basement 10a-12a Broughton Street. 557 0097
Restaurant quality food at pub-grub prices, served 'til 10pm in lively, colourful surroundings.
Kaffe Politik
146/148 Marchmont Road. 446 9873.
Espresso bar. lurce bar. Food specials all day. 'Worth the trip.'
10am— 10pm, 7 days.
Kalinka Russian vodka bar & cafe
65 Henderson Street, Leith
Tel: 467 7053.
Special vodkas, homemade food 8 traditional music Sunday Lunch wrth live "folk" from COLintess Domozhirova
The Bookstop Café 4 Tevrot Place. 225 5298.
New bookshop/cafe. Promises book- browsing, plus, extensive coffee menu, smoothies and deli snacks.
Chapterhouse
13 South College Street
650 9131
Converted church in heart of Edinburgh offering
fresh, exciting cuisine.
"A diVine eating experience"
Common Grounds 2/3 North Bank Street. 226 1416.
American-style coffee house on The Mound.
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Cyberia Internet Cafe,
88 Hanover Street.
220 4403.
Cyberia offers a friendly,
relaxed atmosphere and 10 multimedia PCs, with fast internet access.
Dial restaurant/cafe 44/46 George IV Bridge. 225 7179
'Wears its style With a d capital With food tO
match.’ Conrad Wilson, Modern Scottish CUisine.
Filmhouse 88 Lothian Road.
229 5932. t
Relaxed, FILMHOUSE atmospheric cafe bar, sewing great value snacks, salads, specials and brilliant cappuccrnos — 10am till late.
Helios Fountain 7 Grassmarket (With shop). Sun 10am-4pm
229 7884. ifié wad 1U Excellent vegetarian
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, coffee house serVing really tasty food.
Ndebele 57 Home Street. 221 1141. A cafe and sandWich deli With an impressive range of culinary delights from Southern Africa.
Pancho Villas 240 Canongate.
557 4416.Mexican-born owner Mayra Nunez says 'If you're going to eat MeXican, then don't be bland.’ Lunch until 5pm, dinner until 11pm.
Passepartout
24 Deanhaugh Street, Stockbridge. 332 4476. Cosmopolitan cursine With daily set price dinner menus from £12.50 (booking adVisable), light lunches, coffees, beers and Wines.
Smoke Stack
53-55 Broughton Street.
556 6032.
Much more than burgers and steaks at this stylish but friendly new chargrill restaurant.
Tabula Rasa
90 Haymarket Terrace.
474 3446.
It's Latin rhyming slang for a clean plate. Yours Will be! Try it!
Back Alley Restaurant 8 Ruthven Lane. 334 7165.
Happy Hour, lunch menu, evening specials and Glasgow's best burgers!
World wide cursine, weekend breakfasts,
Balbir's
51 West Regent Street.
331 1980.
Not big, not designer,
not sexy, just brilliant. High quality Indian cursine at affordable prices.
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342 4966.
Brel bar: restaurant 39 Ashton Lane.
Belgian beers (draft
Leffe and Hoegaarden); fine Wines, rustic food,
cool music, relaxed atmosphere
Caffe Latte
58 Virginia Street, Glasgow C
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Pizzas, Pastas,
Salads, SandWiches, Snacks. Licensed
until midnight, seven days Relaxed, friendly atmosphere.
Gallery of Modern Art Cafe Queen Street
221 7484.
Arts Restaurant of the Year Thursday, Friday and Saturdays from 6.30pm.
Last orders 10pm.
No smoking.
Grassroots 20 Woodlands Road. 353 3278.
Scare-free food, organic groceries,
excellent bread, fine cheeses, herbs and ; spices, wholesome foods -— yum, yum.
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Much acclaimed stylish bar — a unique blend of modern brasserie cooking in
Le Petit Pain
239 Byres Road.
337 1118 (phone/fax). Coffees, quality
and pastries to go or to stay Outside catering.
an intimate setting.
Papingo
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104 Bath Street. 0141 332 6678
Top quality cooking, two AA rosettes, fixed price menus. Theatre menu an amazing £7.95. Glasgow's best.
78 St Vincent, 78 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5U8. 0141 248 7878. 'Most invitineg priced restaurant to have opened in Glasgow. .' Conrad Wilson, The Herald.
Stravaigin 28 Gibson Street.
334 2665.
Fresh Scottish ingredients, authentic and original reCipes, award-Winning cooking, lively and informal atmosphere.
The 13th Note
King Street. 553 1638. Bar/cafe/venue With a totally vegan menu of wholesome food within a relaxed atmosphere.
The Ubiquitous Chip 12 Ashton Lane.
334 5007. . . . One of Glasgow's —
finest restaurants serving modern Scottish fayre.
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Side orders
Bite into the Falkirk Food festival
Falkirk Food Festival
Perhaps slightly miffed With all the attention being paid to the big smokes on either end of the M8, Falkirk has decided to blow its own
trumpet and has announced its plans for the second Falkirk International Food Festival.
Taking place Sat 25 Jul—Sun 2 Aug, | the festival has doubled in size from last year. Brian Turner, the presenter of Ready, Steady, Cook Will put the match to the touch paper and get I things off to a borling start when he officially opens the festival at the Beancross Restaurant and Bar on Sat 25 at 1 1am.
Highlights include the chance to sample food as it was prepared several generations ago in the authentic 1820s Georgian kitchen at Callendar House. Lemetti's, which offered frogs' 1 legs last year, has decided to give its menu more Of a bite this time With the inclusion of shark steaks. Demonstrations, speCial gourmet evenings and themed meals will all complete the experience.
No doubt Falkirk's most famous sons, the bibulous band Arab Strap, Will be pleased that the Behind The Wall pub is showcasing an exclusive Festival Ale as well as laying in extra stocks of Hoegaarden. Sup deeply, Falkirk’s Culinary reputation depends on it.
Update
Keep your eyes skinned for these places which have either opened recently or Will open shortly:
Mussel Inn 61—65 Rose Street, Edinburgh, 225 5979. A new seafood restaurant which is run by shellfish farmers who bring their wares down to the restaurant from the sea lochs of the West Coast. Simplicity is the key to the preparation with platters of scallops and oysters on offer alongside smoked salmon and kilo pots of mussels.
Bar Ce Lona 427 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 332 2528. It’s likely that this place will be the talk of the town when it opens in early August. Taking their cue from the fantastical imagination of Gaudi, the interior designers have brought some Catalan verve to Sauchiehall Street. Watch this space. (Jonathan Trew)
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