EATING & DRINKING GUIDE 2016
DINNER
TIME
With the imminent launch of this year’s Eating & Drinking Guide to Glasgow and Edinburgh, Food & Drink editor Donald Reid offers a few insights into the current local dining scene
T he List’s annual Eating & Drinking Guide to the restaurants, bistros, diners, cafés, bars and pubs of Edinburgh and Glasgow is published on 20 April. For the 23rd year in succession, we’ve surveyed the local dining scene and sent our 70-strong team of researchers and reviewers out to all the places worth knowing about when it comes to eating out in the two cities. This year the number of visits is nudging 1000, and certainly breaches that mark when you add in our tips and recommendations to good food shops, takeaways, markets and out-of-town venues. There are around 150 new entries in the guide (each year heralds a similar number of debutants), indicating an often startling turnover of businesses and the proliferation of new venues at the rate of three openings every week across Edinburgh and Glasgow.
This year’s guide is published both in print (see the offer opposite to pick up a discounted copy) and online, which means that all the reviews, up-to-date details, links and locator maps are on your phone when you’re out and about. We’ll be revealing our annual awards for the best newcomers in both cities, as well as all-new Hitlists of our pick of the current top venues in each section of the guide. We’ve also got to work curating the wisdom and insights of our whole team to put together over 50 carefully selected Tiplists across a wide range of topics from best for budget dining or outdoor dining to best breakfasts and cocktails. It’s all based on recent visits, anonymous dining and the sincere objective of providing the most comprehensive, most reliable, best informed and fairest coverage available when it comes to eating out around Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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