New in Food: Salt Horse, Grams, Black Vanilla & more
Our latest food and drink round-up for Edinburgh and Glasgow, with cereal, enormous sandwiches and hundreds of craft beers all on the menu.
Looking for new restaurants and cafés in Edinburgh and Glasgow? We've got you covered. This is our new column on the notable new food and drink openings across Scotland, from craft beer bars to charming cafés. Opening a new food and drink venue in Edinburgh or Glasgow? Let us know – send the details to peter.simpson@theskinny.co.uk and we may include it in this column.
New food in Edinburgh
The latest food and drink spot to spring up in the New Waverley Arches, Gannet & Guga serve up an exciting range of sandwiches and salads. There's an intriguing streak running through the menu, with Vietnamese influences showing up in the form of summery rice rolls and bahn mi sandwiches, alongside the eponymous Gannet and Guga-sized pulled pork rolls. New Waverley Arches.
Healthy cakes – sounds a bit too good to be true, right? Wrong! Grams have been popping up at markets and cafes across Edinburgh with their raw, vegan, dairy and gluten free goodies for the last few months, and now they've opened their own cafe across from Haymarket train station. Expect a rotating selection of delicious cakes and sweet treats to suit a host of diets, as well as salads loaded up with delicious ingredients while still managing to be... y'know... good for you. 16 Haymarket Tce.
Situated on the site of much-loved Food and Drink Survey favourite Blackfriars, Salt Horse provides what may be one of the most comprehensive beer selections in the capital. Seriously, it's a brilliantly eclectic and impressively dense range of beers that will literally take you months to work your way through. Away from the fridges, the tiny but delightful beer garden remains intact, the extensive bottle list is all available to takeaway alongside a host of other deli nibbles, and they even have a .beer web domain so you know they're for real. Two thumbs up. 57-61 Blackfriars St.
Indaba Deli
The Spanish-meets-South African tapas restaurant in Tollcross has branched out, with a new deli in Newington. Inspired by repeated grumbles over where to pick up authentic produce, the deli offers a range of authentic Spanish ingredients and products alongside sandwiches and takeaway options to tide you over on a walk across the Meadows. 17 Causewayside.
New food in Glasgow
Glasgow's first cereal cafe does what the name suggests – it's a cafe, themed around cereal. And not All-Bran or Weetabix either, but 'real' cereal – the kind of sugar-coated morning rocket fuel endorsed by either an anthropomorphic animal or a high-ranking military officer. Black Vanilla presents more than fifty of your childhood favourites just as their creators intended, as well as in the form of cereal cocktails and shakes. 553 Duke St.
A welcome option amid central Glasgow's glut of burger restaurants and smoked meat emporia, Kcal offer up healthy dishes a-plenty. There are breakfast, lunch, sit-down and on-the-go options, all of which are packed with the stuff your body actually needs while also keeping your occasionally untrustworthy tastebuds and brain amused. Everyone wins! 130 West Regent St.