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Rocket Cafe & caterers in Morningside - great coffee & delicious food. We also provide professional outside catering in Edinburgh for private & corporate events.

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Black Ivy, Edinburgh, restaurant review - Scotsman Food and Drink

According to them, the menu is inspired by “local luxury”, whatever that means (maybe doing a roly-poly on Bruntsfield Links while wearing cashmere), though that seems to translate as offerings that sound surprising MOR.

With little else to inspire us, we went for the sriracha king prawn cocktail (£7.45), the bang bang chicken skewers (£6.25) and the chicken liver parfait (£5.95).

The best of the three was probably the scoop of light parfait, which came with three palm-sized super crunchy crostini, rocket salad and a sweet tomato chutney.

While, the chicken, which was supposed to be “marinated with peanut, chilli and lime”, consisted of plain clods of chook, threaded onto wooden skewers and doused in a boring sweet chilli sauce.

However, the worst of our three mains was probably the chargrilled chicken burger (£10.95), which came with chips and a ramekin of tomato chutney.

Harmonium, restaurant review, Edinburgh - Scotsman Food and Drink

The inventive vegan food at Harmonium is much better than a baked potato, says Gaby Soutar Thanks to my deep passion for baked potatoes, I could probably survive as a vegan.

The most recent addition to a small coterie, including my precious Baked Potato Shop in Cockburn Street, is this new eatery, on a corner spot previously occupied by hipster bar The Vintage.

when we offered her one of the “oyster mushroom scallops” (£4.95), she enjoyed these fungi, which came with nibs of convincing chorizo, as well as real deal rocket leaves and coriander.

My wild mushroom rigatoni (£8.50) didn’t look too appealing, with a slightly clotted sauce on top, but the flavours were great, with a punch of truffle oil, a salty and sandy layer of “walnut Parmesan”, spinach and some miso sticky sweet strips of vegetable matter biltong.

Still, if I were a vegan, I’d be willing to exchange a few of my thrice daily baked potatoes for a visit here.

Rollo, Edinburgh, restaurant review - Scotsman Food and Drink

Rollo has some stylish dishes to enjoy, once you get your head round their confusing menu, finds Gaby Soutar What’s pate-tempura?”

Our second Bite was the “smoked salmon pate-tempura prawn-beetroot-pickle cucumber-toast” (£7).

It featured four fat triangles of sourdough, a quenelle of beetroot chutney, neat rolls of pickled cucumber ribbons and a large scoop of a very good and creamy smoked salmon pâté, plus two prawns in a thick batter cladding that was a bit heavy and solid to be described as tempura.

My pan-seared “tuna fillet-mango” (£11.50) was a rare hunk of fish topped with a glossy and fruity heap of the titular fruit, diced, with a bit of red onion, rocket and chilli in the mix.

So, if you can get your head round the menu, ignore the rocket, and not get too excited about the potential of a pate-tempura that does not exist (unless the chippie across the road, Cafe Piccante, decides to put it into production alongside the deep-fried Mars Bar) this place is rather lovely.

David Bann: Vegetarian Restaurant Edinburgh Scotland UK:

All the wines on this list are to the very best of our knowledge vegetarian.

Those marked [V] are, again to the very best of our knowledge, vegan.

Civerinos Slice, Edinburgh: Restaurant Review - olive magazine

Civerinos Slice opened in Edinburgh’s Old Town in May 2017.

This second city centre destination for the award-winning Civerinos has 80 covers and serves 11 different pizzas by the slice in an informal, New-York-style street food dining room, where eating with your hands is strictly encouraged.

From Italian heritage, Michele Civiera, founder of Civerinos, has worked with the very best pizza chefs from Sardinia to Sicily to ensure that the pizzas here are as authentic as possible.

Pizza, by the slice and 20-inchers.

Civerinos’ slushy cocktails, which include Frozey, (a frozen rosé wine drink), are a great summer accompaniment to your slice.

Fishers in the City, Edinburgh: 'It needs a friendly whack ...

But that’s what restaurants are: a bunch of small things, done well, or badly.

Fishers in the City could be a truly terrific fish restaurant, if it weren’t for the small things that aren’t terrific.

When the original opened a little over 20 years ago, overlooking the flash and dip of the waters in Leith at the city’s harbour edge, it offered something Edinburgh didn’t have much of back then: great cooking served without flummery.

They have fish and chips and hot seafood platters, but also a menu of other more evolved things.

There’s the discovery that all the good things in the seafood platter are supported by an enormous pile of mussels, the cheapest item in the seafood restaurant’s fridge.