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10 Good Food Guide restaurants for a Burns Night celebration
Published 23 January 2024

A trusty MacSween’s and some neeps and tatties are all very well for a homemade Burns Night, but nothing beats the ceremony of celebrating the Scottish bard in good company. Prepare to be regaled by Robin the bagpiper at Sam’s Riverside, raise a dram at Cannonball in Edinburgh or join fellow dinners in reciting the Address to a Haggis before tucking into haggis doughnuts at The Golden Ball in Henley. 

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Best Local Restaurants in Scotland 2023

Our Best Local Restaurant list celebrates the places that are the beating heart of communities around Britain. Using reader nominations as a driving force, we inspected a great number of restaurants in Scotland to decide which ones deserved a place in the 100 Best Local Restaurants 2023. Some are old favourites, others are new to The Good Food Guide, all are brilliant places to eat.

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Where to eat in Edinburgh

For the last ten years, Edinburgh behaved like Glasgow’s highfalutin sibling when it came to food – the East did fine and fancy; the West did cool and casual. But more recently, the Clydesiders have been busy grabbing stars, and things in the Capital have started to mellow. Photographer James Porteous, an Edinburgh resident, gives us a personal tour.