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If you’ve spent the past month immersed in the festival, you’ve got some serious catching up to do on Edinburgh’s ever-evolving food scene. Leith is a-buzzing: Norn’s former head chef has opened Borough, Nauticus is bringing proper cocktails to Duke Street and Smoke & Mirrors has transformed the former Alan Breck Lounge into a cosy neighbourhood hangout. Up town, 83 Hanover Street’s small plates, exposed brickwork and sunshiny booth seating is perfect for a casual lunch, while Williams and Johnson’s new Waverley Market café is a brilliant excuse to avoid the chains. El Cartel have battled floods and fire (OK, just floods) to open their second branch on Teviot Place and Söderberg have crept further south into Morningside to open their fourth café. Finding it hard to keep up? Let us be your eyes and ears – sign-up to our monthly food and drink newsletter at list.co.uk/ member/email
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There’s big news from our former Best Newcomer Award winners Edinburgh Food Studio (above), who are now fully embracing their restaurant creds and moving away from their ‘guest chef’ approach.
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While there will still be special events, guests and tastings, new head chef James Murray will now helm regular lunch and dinner services from Wed–Sat. There will also be Sunday brunch, plus all-day opening for tea, coffee and retail sales of their excellent bread. In Glasgow, Partick is continuing to paint itself green, white and red. We’ve had Celino’s and Basta, more recently Pasta Valentino, and now the couple who previously brightened up Queen Margaret Drive with their Italian-leaning North Star café have taken it up a notch with their first restaurant, Rossini – as in Ester and Maurizio. They’ve taken over the old Tinto tapas bar in Partick, serving up specials from chef Maurizio’s home region of Apulia, and featuring Scottish produce such as West Coast mussels and langoustines. Fans of Vietnamese cuisine have known and loved Non Viet at Charing Cross for a while. The same owners have brought their imaginative take on ’Nam to Great Western Road with the somewhat less imaginatively named Non Viet Hai – as in ‘Two’.
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