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BO's BISTRO
87 GRASSMARKET EDINBURGH TEL: 031° 220 1464
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61 BLACKFRIARS STREET EDINBURGH 031 '557 6136
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57 eLAcKFniAns STREET EDINBURGH 031 - 557 6136
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CHALMERS CLOSE 81 HIGH STREET EDINBURGH
O31 - 557 5736
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Overlooking the Princes Street gardens on Waverley Bridge is i Acanthus Cafe Bar
Elegant, stylish and very Continental, Acanthus offers you a quite exceptional choice of food and drink (from full cooked breakfast to afternoon tea).
Fully licensed, Acanthus is open . from 8am until 2am
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I ' r5. ., ‘3 .. I]; 4;" Home-grown Wild Boar has been oil animals coming over lrom Denmark. the menu in Britain lor over two Mike Pearl‘s company is the only centuries, but is now. thanks to the national supplier ol Wild Boar meat. single-minded ellorts or one man, and things have certainly takenoll. appearing at a restaurant near you. despite a complete absence ol interest This is notto say that large hairy or help lrom any ol the Government‘s beasts are once again roaming our entrepreneurial assistance schemes. uplands; Mike Pearl had to obtain a He now has 200 breeding sows and licence underThe Dangerous Wild nearly twenty boars. and 1000 twelve Animals Act belore he was allowed to month-old animals were sent to market keep Sus Scrola Scrola — although he last year. describes them as ‘rather like dogs. Young boar are larmed out to estates really: nervous but lriendly once they in Scotland and Wales to latten up. get to know you‘. Mr Pearl used to own where they eat all sorts ol interesting Balcraig House Hotel and larm just things like bracken. worms and outside Perth. and tried to be as parsnips (as well as chickens. . sell-sullicient as possible, but gave it apparently. should any cross their all up in 1986 to lorm The Wild Boar path). which all contribute to the final Company. llavourolthe meat. 80 laronly Harrods The French consume over twenty and two or three specialist butchers thousand wild boar a year. most at down south actually sell the meat to the them imported lrom eastern Europe. In public; all the rest goes to restaurants tact Britain is the only country in Eumpe and hotels (888 Edlnburgh “80098) in which wild boar is extinct. EEC lood particularly during the game season— regulations lorbid the importation at W "0 900d reason. as boar IS avallable wild boar meat and products. so the all year round. only solution tor a Brit who‘d managed The Company also makes sausages. to acquire a taste torthe stuff was to Délé (avallable "om Valvona & Cfplla). grow his own. and varioustlavoured hamslsold in The first herd ol boar was bought en Harrods at £30/Ib). (Lucy Bailey) masse lrom London Zoo, with lurther
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I Keepers 13B Dona.“ Street 55o 570", Mon Sat open lUl' lunch and dinner last orders 10— lll..‘~llpm. .-\ Borders shooting cluh supply Keepers “ith most ol their game. The menu
metropolis. and comenrent '.()r[hc.\18. _ Restaurant eniots a i desenedl} good | reputation. whilst the stall are courteous. helptul and eager to make }otii‘ slit) memorahle.
l‘thlllL'\\ lunch. 'l‘lieir game. like much ol the game eaten in ltdinhurgh. comes lrom ( ieoige (amphell ck Sons. IS Stallord Street 335 7N5. I Le Marché Noir 3 4 lore Place. 558 lollh. .\lon Sat
i at £2 05 and their tofill
ollerssiildlileolallkrnds; noon 3 .illprri.7 lllpm pheasantuuail. duckling. : (l-rr Sat to l lpml.
\eriison. At the moment the} are hus} pluckrngand honing hundreds ol pheasants to see them through the oil-season. Prices lor a main dish (including \egetahlesl range lrom {(1.55 toih’fill. I The Pimpernel ( Tings (‘lose. 2‘) ( ‘ockhui‘n Street 3263537..\1on 'l'hur'sand Sun open for lunch and dinner until 10.30pm;
l‘ri Sat 1 lam midnight. While pigeon. partridge and s'enison appear on The l’impernel's a la carte menu. perhaps the hest value is their bistro lunch
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I Dubh Prais l ligh Street prox iiicial tood created h) 557 5732. Mon l~'rr
noon 2.3llpm.
6.3” lll..‘\llpm; Sat
(1.30 1H 30pm. A new hasement restaurant
is hich despite its tourist-trap position on the Roin Mile is aimed at local eaters. and ls\er} reasonath priced. The chef and ms ner. James McWilliams. offers game casserole. quail. \ enison and an award-winning dish of hare stuffed u ith fresh chestnuts. Lunch (2 Courses and coffee) is
.i )ouiig. enthusiastic. lemalccliel 'lllele'stt choice ol tuoset-pr rec menus in the ex enrng. and game ol one sort or another is .tl\\.l}s Included. \\ Ild ho.” marinaded in red u me. then cooked in ( ~atalaii st} le \\ ith \ egclalilcs. garlic and hitter chocolate. made its lirsl appearance last week Venison is cooked a la lorestlere. \\ ith \\ ild mushrooms in the sauce. and they mm often have
70 The List 25 Nov — 8 Dee 1988