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The Scran & Scallie Public House with Dining is the latest venture from the team behind the popular Michelin star restaurant The Kitchin and the award-winning Castle Terrace Restaurant.

The award-winning gastro pub, which is a proud holder of a Michelin guide Bib Gourmand 2017, offers relaxed dining with menus showcasing great Scottish food - or ‘scran’ - and a range of traditionally brewed ales and artisan beers served in a cosy setting suitable for the whole family.

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The Scran and Scallie, Stockbridge, Edinburgh pub review

A sack of thick-crusted white and a light rye bread was served with soft, creamy butter.

A special of crisp endive, gloriously runny egg, caramelised onion, meaty gravy and wondrously soft textured black pudding (£6.50) was another superb dish.

Creamy rice pudding (£5.75) with a hint of coconut sat beneath a crisp brandy snap topped with light raspberry sorbet.

In fact, it was my favourite meal of the However, as the restaurant was packed to the rafters and short-staffed on a bank holiday weekend, service at times ground to a halt.

In fact, it was my favourite meal of the weekend’s all star line-up However, as the restaurant was packed to the rafters and short-staffed on a bank holiday weekend, service at times ground to a halt.

Review: The Scran and Scallie, Stockbridge, Edinburgh – Eating ...

Not at Tom Kitchin’s Scran and Scallie “gastropub” though, where – let’s be honest, TK – it’s less of the “Public House” and more of the “with dining”.

What the Scran and Scallie might lack in yer sticky carpeted, nicotine ceilinged, wall-to-wall Sky Sports trad pub chic it makes up for in its big-plated, elbows-on-the-table canon of classic scoff.

An orb of offaly haggis  – I know, clock us tourists – comes with a can’t-put-my-finger-on-it ‘sauce’; potato veloute I reckon, smartly ticking the ‘tatties’ element while strands of swede – soz, ‘turnip’, soz, ‘neeps’ – complete the age-old ensemble.

There’s a lump of lamb, slow-cooked and slathered in a much reduced shimmering gravy – they’re good at sauces here – bolstered by proper garden peas and carrots.

Bit more delicate and refined at the other gaff, hence the Star, but the Scran and Scallie’s hardly a Harvesters, and this is by no means your entry level pub grub.

Home | The Kitchin, Michelin Starred Restaurant, Edinburgh

Tom and Michaela Kitchin opened their restaurant, The Kitchin on Edinburgh’s Leith waterfront in 2006.

The restaurant was awarded a Michelin star in 2007 followed by numerous prestigious awards including 'Best UK Restaurant', 'Best Restaurant in Scotland' and very recently 'Best Restaurant Experience' in 2015.

The Kitchin presents modern British seasonal cuisine influenced by French cooking techniques and an appreciation of the best quality ingredients available from Scotland's fantastic natural larder.

The restaurant’s philosophy ‘From Nature to Plate’, is a true reflection of Tom’s passion for the finest, freshest Scottish seasonal produce and the cooking at the restaurant reflects Tom’s training under some of the world’s best chefs blended with his own Scottish heritage.

review of Edinburgh restaurant Scran and Scallie by Andy Hayler

The menu is actually very appealing, with pub staples like fish and chips, pies and burgers, but also dishes involving local seafood.

The first indication that things were of a superior standard here was the excellent home-cured salmon with good rye bread and a dressing involving capers and cucumber (15/20).

I was also very impressed with haddock and chips here, the fish having crisp batter and excellent flavour, served with excellent golden chips and served with top class tartare sauce with chunks of pickled cucumber and capers.

I was genuinely impressed with the standard of food at Scran and Scallie, which makes the most of the excellent Scottish ingredients available and delivers enjoyable and expertly cooked food.

This meal was a revelation, with top class ingredients, precise cooking and very appealing dishes, all at a modest price.

Contini Cannonball: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style ...

Based on this latest restaurant from the venerable Contini family it’s not short on a soft nationalism, expressed through the culinary.

Long before restaurants in other parts of the UK became label obsessed, as if slapping the name of a market town before the word “chicken” immediately gave it virtue, a certain type of Scottish restaurant was bigging up locality through the food on the plate.

Here at Contini Cannonball, they want you to know that this is very much a Scottish restaurant, serving Scottish food.

In case you weren’t clear they’ve put whisky in the sour cream sauce to go with fried (cannon) balls of haggis, and tartan on the banquettes.

Their Cullen skink, all firm potato, smokey haddock and half a cow’s worth of cream, is the kind of bowlful to make you think dreamily of cold winter afternoons; a chicken salad, with a grilled sliced breast and the crunch of green beans, comes flying in from another season altogether.

The Scran & Scallie | Bars and pubs in Stockbridge, Edinburgh

The top-notch cuisine draws a well-heeled crowd to this gastro pub – the brainchild of two Michelin-starred chefs The creation of not one, but two, of Edinburgh’s Michelin-starred chefs, gastro pub The Scran & Scallie was never likely to disappoint.

Couple its top-notch cuisine with its Stockbridge location – one of Edinburgh’s most affluent stomping grounds – and you have a sure-fire winner.

Embracing its self-imposed title as a ‘public house with dining’, time has been taken to create a drinks menu that matches S&S’s flair for food.

The diners are mostly chattering, well-heeled Stockbridge residents, tourists with bucks to burn or those searching for a whiff of Michelin influence without breaking the bank.

The smallish bar area makes a comfortable spot to wait for your table, or enjoy a drink and appraise Stockbridge’s population of yummy mummies – when it’s not full with the weekend crowd, that is.