Features
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FeaturesResident Advisors: James Snowdon, The Palmerston
James Snowdon from The Palmerston restaurant in the West End recommends great hills, excellent bars, and some cash-saving tips for the festival season Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesDialling In: Ground Floor, Edinburgh
Home to community radio station EHFM, Ground Floor is a shining example of the bonds that can be built around food and drink, writes Anahit Behrooz Read more »| 26 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesHome from Home: Hungry Wolf, Edinburgh
A one-room, family-run Georgian restaurant is a home away from home for Emilie Roberts – and handily, it isn't very far from home at all Read more »| 26 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesBody and Soul: Edinburgh's Himalaya Cafe
Inspired by a visit from the Dalai Lama, Edinburgh's Himalaya Cafe is a pocket of Tibetan food and community, writes Ema Smekalova Read more »| 26 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesThe Agacan Lives On: Dundee's one-of-a-kind Turkish restaurant
Within the ceramic-lined walls of this family-run Turkish restaurant, Laurie Presswood finds a capsule of Dundee's past, present and future Read more »| 25 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesK. Jackson's, City Cafe, and the pub as community hub
Rosamund West looks back at two pubs (one sadly resting-in-peace) with central roles to play in Edinburgh's artistic community, even if they didn't know it at the time Read more »| 25 Jun 2025
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Features'The platonic ideal of a pub': The Old Toll Bar, Glasgow
'Your local' doesn't have to be local to you, as Jamie Dunn – frequent traveller to The Old Toll Bar in Kinning Park – explains Read more »| 25 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesIn Goth We Trust: The forgotten history of Scotland's Goth Pubs
After 115 years, the Prestoungrange Gothenburg closed its doors in January. It was one of the last Goth pubs in Scotland – Ali Leetham looks at its surviving relatives, and finds a history of temperance, solidarity, community spirit, and dramatic decor Read more »| 25 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesIn Your Corner: In praise of the corner shop
Death, taxes, and the bright lights of the 24-hour shop: some things are always there. Kaitlin Willoughby celebrates the wonder of the corner shop Read more »| 24 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesOn Common Ground: Leith Community Croft
Leith Community Croft is a small patch of green space, but it's also so much more. Lauren Cameron looks at how the Croft – and the people growing on it – are rethinking food, community and what it means to belong Read more »| 24 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesGet your copy of GNAW issue two!
Looking for issue two of our food and drink magazine GNAW? Here's where to pick up your free copy... Read more »| 23 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesComfort and Connection: Building bonds through food
People always say that food offers a way to break down barriers and build community – in the case of Arouny Prasimay and her Lao family, that applies quite literally Read more »| 23 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesNo Can Do: Coca-Cola, Palestine and Scotland
Scotland has long been a holdout against the carbonated dominance of Coca-Cola, and a new wave of boycotts and actions have brought our relationship with the brand to centre stage. Myrtle Boot finds out more Read more »| 23 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesDreadnought: Leith's LGBTQ+ local
Great beer, vocal support for their queer community, local activism and, every so often, a large group of cats – as Rachel Ashenden explains, Leith pub Dreadnought has it all Read more »| 23 Jun 2025 -
FeaturesTasting the City: 20 of Edinburgh's Food and Drink Highlights
No matter where you look, Edinburgh is packed with great independent food and drink spots – we pick out some highlights from across the city Read more »| 03 Mar 2025