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'Feels like the offspring of Burger King and Greggs' – Ron Mackenna ...

SO WE queued and we queued, and while we queued we watched some kids across the road at the teen hangout beside McDonald's a-shouting and a-swearing, and while we queued we cringed for the tourists behind us also watching this.

This is why we are all standing here on a Sunday afternoon to get into a Canadian coffee chain that from the outside, and actually even more so when we get the food, is like Burger King for doughnuts.

Crispy chicken sandwiches under £4, coffee just over a £1, those Timbits, little balls of fried dough being knocked out at a tenner for a box of 40.

Menu: Very, very ordinary sandwiches but all the fuss is about those tiny Timbit doughnuts and coffee.

Dirt cheap coffee, doughnuts and sandwiches.

'Feels like the offspring of Burger King and Greggs' – Ron Mackenna ...

SO WE queued and we queued, and while we queued we watched some kids across the road at the teen hangout beside McDonald's a-shouting and a-swearing, and while we queued we cringed for the tourists behind us also watching this.

This is why we are all standing here on a Sunday afternoon to get into a Canadian coffee chain that from the outside, and actually even more so when we get the food, is like Burger King for doughnuts.

Crispy chicken sandwiches under £4, coffee just over a £1, those Timbits, little balls of fried dough being knocked out at a tenner for a box of 40.

Menu: Very, very ordinary sandwiches but all the fuss is about those tiny Timbit doughnuts and coffee.

Dirt cheap coffee, doughnuts and sandwiches.

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Greggs Lothian Road - Snacks with Disabled Access - Euan's Guide

Greggs Leith Walk, Edinburgh - Bakery with Disabled Access ...

This is a new store with a nice sit in area.

The always ask if I want a morning roll for 20p extra which is nice, as I'm walking to work to exercise I alway...

Greggs Lothian Road - Snacks with Disabled Access - Euan's Guide

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Caledonian Hotel, Princes Street, Edinburgh (0131 222 8975).

Meal for two, including drinks and service £175 There may be prettier dining rooms than the Pompadour at Edinburgh’s Caledonian Hotel, but not bloody many.

At the end of the meal we will be invited to take coffee before a window that presents a perfect point from which to watch the fireworks that explode nightly at this time of year over the castle.

The brothers set up a bistro on London’s Baker Street a few years back, eschewing the flummery of the high end that had dominated their earlier careers.

■ Chef Theodore Kyriakou, who launched and then sold both the Livebait and the Real Greek chains is returning to his roots with the opening in September of The Greek Larder, a restaurant and food store, in London’s King’s Cross (the greeklarder.co.uk).

Chop Chop, Edinburgh: restaurant review | Life and style | The ...

After a lifetime’s research and a single night out in Edinburgh, I am ready to nominate the one item that defines and unifies us: it’s the dumpling.

There are two basic dumpling types: the small jiao zi, made with translucent skins, which are boiled, and the larger, denser, guo tie with their pleated edge, which are fried to crisp on one side.

If there is a standout from the dishes we try, it is the jiao zi filled with that classic northern Chinese mix of lamb and cumin, the gossamer skins breaking to release gusts of meatiness with just a hint of lanolin and the aromatics of the roasted spice.

The venerable Saigon Saigon in Edinburgh is frequented by the local Chinese community looking for food from the less refined end of the tradition.

Despite the name referencing Vietnam, there’s both a serious Cantonese dim sum menu and a wide selection of rough and ready Sichuan and Hunanese dishes, piled with enough fresh chillies to keep the cold winds off (saigonsaigon.co.uk).