20 YEARS OF THE EATING & DRINKING GUIDE
20 YEARS OF YUM!
1994 1995
1996
1997 1998
• The List’s i rst-ever Eating Out Guide to Glasgow and Edinburgh is published, with 400 entries. It was put together by an editorial team of seven.
• The places to go in Glasgow were Crannog’s Seafood Restaurant, Froggies, Balbir’s Balti Bar and Fazzi’s. • In Edinburgh, venues such as L’Auberge, Cousteau’s and Tinelli were the talk of the town.
• The guide gets a new name, the Eating & Drinking Guide. It costs £1 and jumps to 600 entries. • Ferrier Richardson opens Yes on West Nile Street. Banns arrives on Hunter Square in Edinburgh, shortly followed by Creelers.
• David Ramsden opens i tzHenry, a brasserie in Leith.
• The third edition has 700 entries.
• Pierre Victoire grows to six Edinburgh locations, along with two Chez Jules and Pierre Lapin. • One Devonshire Gardens, under head chef Andrew Fairlie, is awarded a Michelin Star. For the next i ve years, it’s the only restaurant in Edinburgh or Glasgow to hold one.
• The guide introduces a ‘tick’ recommendation scheme and a readers’ poll. • New entries in Edinburgh include The Dial, Indigo Yard, Ndebele, Number One and the Tapas Tree.
• The guide introduces full colour photos and Hitlists. Venues such as Winter Glen, 36, Puppet Theatre and Janssen’s make the grade. • New to the Edinburgh scene were Blue, Hadrian’s, The Stockbridge Restaurant and Sweet Melindas.
• Arrivals in Glasgow include Bar Brel, House for an Art Lover and Kama Sutra. • In Glasgow, the big new arrival was Nairns, while 16 Byres Road and Lux also opened.
2004 2005
2006
2007 2008
• Edinburgh arrivals include Always Sunday and Rhubarb. • The capital’s oldest Indian restaurant, Khushi’s, relocates to Potterrow.
• Tapa Coffee & Bakehouse opens up in Glasgow’s East End, while Terence Conran brings us both Zinc and Etain in Princes Square, and appoints Geoffrey Smeddle as his head chef.
• In the year both Centotre and Valvona & Crolla’s Vincaffé open, we give our Judges Special Award to all three generations of the Contini family.
• Urban Angel arrives in Edinburgh, along with the Scotch Malt Whisky Society in Queen Street. • Òran Mór arrives in Glasgow, as does Red Onion and Two Fat Ladies on Blythswood Street.
• We pick Roti as the best newcomer in Edinburgh, and Urban Grill in Glasgow. Neither last to the present day, but the runners-up – Iglu and the Sisters Kelvingrove – still thrive.
• It’s a good year for drinkers in Glasgow with the arrival of the Butterl y and the Pig, Chinaski’s and West Brewery. • Ex-Ashoka guru Balbir Singh Sumal opens on Church Street.
• The Kitchin opens in the summer of 2006, and by the time it makes its debut in the Eating & Drinking Guide in April 2007, it has a Michelin Star.
• The Plumed Horse, a Dumfriesshire restaurant holding a Michelin Star, relocates to Leith. It regains its star in 2009. • Khushi’s moves again, to even larger premises in Victoria Street.
• For our 15th edition we pick out The Dogs, Wedgwood the Restaurant, Nanakusa and Two Fat Ladies at the The Buttery as the best new arrivals in Edinburgh and Glasgow. • Pierre Levicky is back in town ten years after the collapse of Pierre Victoire with Chez Pierre on Eyre Place.
• Allan Mawn opens Pintxo on Dumbarton Road.
14 THE LIST 18 Apr–16 May 2013