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Earthy
33—41 Ratcliffe Terrace, Edinburgh, 0131 667 2967, www.earthy.co.uk
Mon-Fri 8.30am-7.30pm; Sat 8.30am-6pm; Sun 10am-5pm. This indie supermarket sells fairly- traded. local. seasonal and organic produce. from in and around Edinburgh. Choose from a range of fresh fruit, meat. fish. biscuits. teas. beers and lots more. Online shopping and home delivery are also available.
RealFoods
8 Brougham Street and 37 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, 01312281201/01315571911, www.realfoods.co.uk
See website for opening hours. With over 30 years trading and over 10.000 products. Real Foods is the largest Scottish retailer of organic. veggie and special diet foods. Both branches stock dried fruit. cereals. ethnic foods and a staggering selection of health supplements.
Delizique
66 and 70 Hyndland Street, Partick,
Glasgow, 0141 339 2000/ 0141 339 7180, www.delizique.co.uk Mon-Fri 93m—9pm; Sat-Sun 9am-8pm.
A one-stop shop prowding the best of ingredients and takeaway dishes. with an in-store bakery that produces bread and pastries daily. as well as pizza for delivery. A couple of doors down, Cafezique offers a Sit-in option.
The Store
13 Comely Bank Rd, Edinburgh, 0131 315 0030, www.thestorecompany.co.uk Mon-Thu 10am-6.30pm; Fri/Sat 9am—6pm; Sun 11am—5pm. Opened in 2000. the award-winning Store has a Stockbridge outlet plus a shop on its farm in Foveran. Aberdeenshire. Specialising in lamb and beef raised on the farm.through to pesticide-free vegetables. Chef prepared meals are also available.
Heart Buchanan
380 Byres Road, Glasgow,
0141 334 7626, www.heartbuchanan.co.uk Mon—Fri 8.30am-9.30pm; Sat 9am-9.30pm; Sun noon—7pm.
Fi Buchanan set up her shop oxer seven years ago and it's flourished to become one of Glasgow's finest delis. The onSite chef prepares
dishes uSing local produce every day.
If you take yOur own dish they'll even prepare your dinner in it for yOu.
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Grassroots
20 Woodlands Road, Glasgow 0141 353 3278, www.grassrootsorganic.com Mon-Wed 8am—6pm; Thu/Fri 8am—7pm; Sat 9am—6pm; Sun 11am-5pm.
A friendly. wholefood haven selling nuts. seeds. oils. herbs and spices. The fridge is bursting With saVOury treats. while the deli counter displays freshly prepared meals and snacks such as frittata and hummus.
I For more info on where to buy Scottish produce, check out The Larder, free With this issue, or look out for our Independent Shopping GUide in the next iSSue.
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Fiona Houston
Author. foreqer end cempelqner
Breakfast in our house is a chaotic affair. fruit and cereal. eaten in between organising kids‘ homework and PE kit. I try to make carrot and apple JUlCG, if I have time. Living close to Stockbridge in Edinburgh. l have no excuse not to
eat local, and often walk down to Raeburn Place. I try to investment cook'. so I'll buy fish at Armstrongs or meat in bulk at Bowers and make stews that I can forget about and leave to cook for hours. I might buy a loaf of the best bread in Edinburgh at Herbies. then Stop at Costcutter for my veg. Being a forager. I usually have a pot of wild garlic or nettle pesto in the fridge to liven dinner up. and if I‘m out walking the dog I pick wild herbs to add to the fun. We're blessed in Edinburgh that we still have ‘urban Villages' like Stockbridge. and I am worried that with a large supermarket chain movmg into the old Woolworths building. this unique character will be lost.
I Fiona Houston co-wrote Seaweed and Eat /t and WIN lead a foraging weekend at Ardeonaig Hotel 8 Restaurant, Loch Tay on 8/9 May. (wwwforagerangers. com) She is also leading a campaign to keep Sainsbury's out of Stockbri‘dge. (www. stockbridgeandin verleitncc. org. uk/
I POI WW decor and big show-off budgets, Glasgow's eat and drink scene has no peer. Now G1 group has taken over the old Hallion on Bath Street. Hummingbird opened last weekend to a mix of cooing and guffaws at the sheer, brazen vision of the drinking, eating and party venue designed by Graven Images, with ‘party pods' lined in denim and pink fluff, a ‘Posh Room' with cocktail trolley, and beach bar with hot tub. Hummingbird,186 Bath Street, www.socialanimal.co.uk
I m restaurant Arisaig has relocated from St Vincent Street to 1 Merchant Square. Candleriggs. Running a more casual dining operation on the ground floor, they plan to open something more formal (akin to the old operation) upstairs. (wwwarisaigrestaurant.co.uk). The phone no. is new: 0141 553 1010.
I Ml. of Far-Eastern dining in the capital are getting their noodles in a twist over several recentnew openings. Ju-ichi (11a-133 William Street, 0131 226 3161, Ju-ichi.co.uk) is from the same stable as 0K0 Express in Glasgow. Jitsu (176 Rose Street) is a very informal Japanese restaurant - the owners also hope to open a venue on Hope Street, Glasgow in the next few months, while Shilla (0131 556 4840) is a classy Korean restaurant from the owners of Kokuryo, Glasgow, at 13b Dundas Street (the old venue of Haldanes and Keepers).
I If?" “I LII?" annual Eating 8 Drinking Guide out later this month (free with The List out on 29 April). this is your last chance to get your favourite Edinburgh or Glasgow restaurant recognised in our Reader Awards. To vote, go to www.list.co.uk and hit 'Taste of Edinburgh'. You could win a trip for two to London to attend Taste of London in June. Runners up prizes include VIP tickets to Taste of Edinburgh in lnverleith Park in May.
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