20 YEARS OF THE EATING & DRINKING GUIDE

20 YEARS OF YUM!

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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.

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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