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GourmetGorro: The Dogs, Edinburgh restaurant review

If so, will he also think the honeycomb parfait was too light on flavour and sum up his meal by describing it as the dog’s proverbials?

To start, I ordered the fried lamb breast (£4.95) – A crisp, moist, fatty piece of meat sat on top of a butternut squash puree infused with rosemary.

My fish stew (£11.50) was Mary Poppins’ handbag-esque in proportions.

The presence of a few vegetables and herbs, an accompanying baton of garlic fried bread and the lubrication of a creamy vegetable broth balanced the dish well.

A rather too subtle honeycomb parfait (£4.50), drenched in a generic tasting chocolate sauce was saved by the presence of some superb crisp treacly honeycomb.

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Founder David Ramsden has created a very cosy little place, hidden up a staircase dotted with dog paraphernalia is a cute and delightful restaurant.

Ade’s stomach capacity is obviously far greater than mine as he went for Asparagus, stilton and hazelnut barley risotto £5.45.

But oh my god it was good, how I wish I could have eaten it all, although Ade did his best to help me out.

Ade went large – Lamb Barnsley chop, haggis hash, cabbage, and tarragon gravy £13.95 – an incredibly juicy slab of lamb, tender and moist.

Ade’s Fruit cake mess with drunken apricot, prunes and cranberries £4.95 must have been invented with him in mind.

Restaurant review: The Dogs Restaurant, Edinburgh, Scotland ...

Their delightfully short menu has a new edition: Musselburgh Pie – perhaps one of the original surf and turf recipes?

David Ramsden, Owner of the dogs and James Scott, Head Chef came across the recipe in a cookbook in a second hand shop in the City.

The Musselburgh Pie recipe involves rolling sliced steak around mussels to create a hearty, filling dish – ideal for the winter months.

The recipe came from housewives who sourced mussels from the River Esk in the early 1800s when they were in abundance, as an economical way to bulk out their pies!

David and James have shared the recipe with us – personally I am going to the Dogs to try it first!

The Dogs, Edinburgh, restaurant review - Scotsman Food and Drink

A couple of stone dog statues guard the entrance to a hallway that houses an old sofa, pictures of dogs abound and an old staircase winds its way up to two dining rooms, giving the sense of visiting a friend’s house.

The main dining room to the right – filled with the buzz of conversation – is a white-painted space with a bar at one end and a huge portrait of, what else, a dog’s head, above it.

Tracey’s main of fish and chips with mushy peas and homemade tartare sauce (£12.80) is ideal comfort food.

Chorizo and white fish are great plate mates, while the green curry flavour is more of a nod to spiciness and suitable for even the mildest curry eater.

Choose from the likes of marinated salmon and cream cheese relish and toast (£5.75 as a starter or £8.15 as a main), red curry with rice (from £5.30), coronation chicken open sandwich (£6.45), although the beef burger, smoked cheddar, bacon and baby gem (£7.60) served up with spiced chips (£2.45) on the side might be hard to ignore.

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Restaurant: The Dogs, Edinburgh | Life and style | The Guardian

So, approaching the original outlet of the pack, I wondered if the canine theme would become totally rabid inside and I would be made to order dishes with names like the dog's bollocks, or something wrapped in woof pastry, all washed down with witty Alsatian wines.

And since winter had just nipped back to the UK for a last bite, dishes such as oxtail broth (£3.45) and boiled bacon with colcannon and parsley sauce (£5.10) were ideal.

The Dogs, or at least the bit I ate in, is best described as a front room, with a pleasing, if eccentric, domesticity, dark wood tables, cream walls and a high ceiling.

It's a dish that may be too rich for some, and I prefer my beetroot in bigger chunks, but at this point I was, as my imaginary friend pointed out, too busy eyeing up the bacon that was steaming its way across the room.

Salty food intake was by now such that I could foresee waking up the next day desiccated to around half my normal size, or perhaps looking like the terrifying sculpture of an antlered man hanging on the wall (people who wish to remain anonymous say it looks a bit like the boss), so toffee tapioca, garnished with a biting apple sauce to keep you awake, was a very successful, sticky finish.

The Dogs | Restaurants in New Town, Edinburgh

Budget restaurant whose menu of hearty British mains largely hits the spot An affordable restaurant in a handy New Town location, where the menu focuses on traditional cooking from around the British Isles, filtered through a contemporary sensibility.

The main room with the bar – overlooking Hanover Street – is dominated by an enormous portrait of a dog, for example, and is the room to aim for when dining.

There are two menus: day for lunch and weekend afternoons, dinner for evenings, both priced accordingly.

The former offers modest, lunchtime-sized dishes around the £4-£6 range: choices like mussels in spicy tomato sauce; pulled pork bun with pickled red onion and baby gem; or fish and chips with mushy peas.

Sides from the day menu weigh in around £2 each – chips, coleslaw, salad and more – while desserts are £3-£4 and might include fruit crumble, coconut rice pudding with apricot jam and other crowd pleasers.