Food and Drink
The Skinny food and drink guide. We bring you restaurant reviews offering an alternative take on food writing, from the visual food column to the annual Food and Drink Survey. Monthly food and drink news keeps you up to date with the latest in food.
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ReviewsKUL Coffee, Edinburgh
Slick Scandi-style design, an apparently endless list of coffees, and food that straddles the minimal and maximal – KUL is a hit Read more »| 26 Jul 2025 -
TravelThe Skinny Guide to Edinburgh 2025: Coffee and Cafes
Maybe it’s a caffeine hit or a vitamin boost you're after. Below are our favourite coffee shops and juice joints in town Read more »| 17 Jul 2025 -
FeaturesResident Advisors: James Clark, Sotto
We talk kebabs, countryside walks, realising your dreams and exploring your local area with James Clark, owner of the Stockbridge restaurant Sotto Read more »| 17 Jul 2025 -
TravelThe Skinny Guide to Edinburgh: Bars and Pubs
Edinburgh is a great pub city. Whether you’re after a quiet pint or a chic cocktail joint, it has you covered. Here are some of our favourite places to get a drink Read more »| 15 Jul 2025 -
FeaturesMarket Making: The past and future of Glasgow's markets
Going to the shops often means getting in a fight with a belligerent self-service till, but it wasn't always this way; Grant Reekie visits Partick to look at what we can learn from the pre-super market Read more »| 09 Jul 2025 -
ReviewsKing of Feasts @ The Hanging Bat, Edinburgh
We check out the latest residency from King of Feasts, as he takes the reins at venerable Edinburgh craft beer bar The Hanging Bat Read more »| 03 Jul 2025
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Features'Like a whirlwind': Moira and The Diggers (Athletic Arms)
The Athletic Arms – aka The Diggers – may be known as a Hearts pub with a great whisky selection, affordable pints and epic pies, but as Tallah Brash writes, it's the people that truly make it Read more »| 02 Jul 2025 -
FeaturesResident Advisors: James Snowdon, The Palmerston
James Snowdon from The Palmerston restaurant in the West End recommends great hills, excellent bars, and some cash-saving tips for the festival season Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesDialling In: Ground Floor, Edinburgh
Home to community radio station EHFM, Ground Floor is a shining example of the bonds that can be built around food and drink, writes Anahit Behrooz Read more »| 26 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesHome from Home: Hungry Wolf, Edinburgh
A one-room, family-run Georgian restaurant is a home away from home for Emilie Roberts – and handily, it isn't very far from home at all Read more »| 26 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesThe Agacan Lives On: Dundee's one-of-a-kind Turkish restaurant
Within the ceramic-lined walls of this family-run Turkish restaurant, Laurie Presswood finds a capsule of Dundee's past, present and future Read more »| 25 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesK. Jackson's, City Cafe, and the pub as community hub
Rosamund West looks back at two pubs (one sadly resting-in-peace) with central roles to play in Edinburgh's artistic community, even if they didn't know it at the time Read more »| 25 Jun 2025 -
Features'The platonic ideal of a pub': The Old Toll Bar, Glasgow
'Your local' doesn't have to be local to you, as Jamie Dunn – frequent traveller to The Old Toll Bar in Kinning Park – explains Read more »| 25 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesIn Goth We Trust: The forgotten history of Scotland's Goth Pubs
After 115 years, the Prestoungrange Gothenburg closed its doors in January. It was one of the last Goth pubs in Scotland – Ali Leetham looks at its surviving relatives, and finds a history of temperance, solidarity, community spirit, and dramatic decor Read more »| 25 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesIn Your Corner: In praise of the corner shop
Death, taxes, and the bright lights of the 24-hour shop: some things are always there. Kaitlin Willoughby celebrates the wonder of the corner shop Read more »| 24 Jun 2025