May 2023 - Herringbone – Abbeyhill, Edinburgh
Herringbone Abbeyhill is situated on London Road at the junction with Easter Road. It’s a short walk along London Road from Elm Row and...
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jillbowie
May 20, 20233 min read
May 2023 – Mowgli – Hanover Street, Edinburgh
As soon as I found out Mowgli was opening, I booked a table for my meetup group to go along – this was because I had heard so much about...
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jillbowie
Mar 20, 20234 min read
A Weekend in Skye Recommendations
OK so I thought it might be useful to note down all the great places I tried in Skye – there are still loads of places I didn’t get to...
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jillbowie
Feb 25, 20232 min read
February 2023 - Milk @ ESW - Newhaven, Edinburgh
Milk is a little Newhaven gem – its hidden away on the cycle path as part of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. It is light and airy and...
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jillbowie
Feb 25, 20233 min read
February 2023 - BABA - George Street, Edinburgh
BABA is a gorgeous restaurant which focuses on flavours from the Levant highlighting mezze dishes as well as having a charcoal grill....
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jillbowie
Feb 25, 20232 min read
February 2023 - Ka Pao - St James Quarter, Edinburgh
You can find Ka Pao on the third floor of the St James Quarter alongside Salerno Pizza. Ka Pao dishes are influenced by the cooking of...
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jillbowie
Feb 12, 20234 min read
February 2023 - First Coast - Haymarket, Edinburgh
First Coast is an excellent little independent restaurant situated a 5 minute walk from Haymarket Station. First Coast focuses using...
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jillbowie
Feb 7, 20232 min read
February 2023 - Cento Alla Torre - Tower Bridge, London
Cento Alla Torre is located just next to Tower Hill underground station and Tower Gateway DLR and looks over to Tower of London. I ended...
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jillbowie
Feb 5, 20232 min read
February 2023 - Humble Crumble – Old Spitalfields Market / Borough Market, London
Humble Crumbles concept is simple but genius – everyone loves crumble so who won’t love a pimped up crumble. I have been stalking Humble...
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jillbowie
Feb 5, 20233 min read
February 2023 - Dry Jan - Does it really work?
Dry January is great. Encouraging people to take a month away from the booze to test out a different way of life has to be a good thing....
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jillbowie
Jan 28, 20233 min read
January 2023 - Bodega - Leith, Edinburgh
Bodega is situated on Leith Walk and specialises in street style tacos and lots of varieties of margaritas, tequila and cocktails. Its...
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jillbowie
Jan 28, 20233 min read
January 2023 - Tigerlily - George Street, Edinburgh
Walking up the steps into Tigerlily, the flower wall and neon signs give you a taste of what is to come. Tigerlily got a re-vamp in 2022...
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jillbowie
Jan 23, 20232 min read
January 2023 - Pepe Nero - Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Pepe Nero is a small independent Italian Restaurant located in the beautiful Stockbridge area of Edinburgh. On a Sunday its perfectly...
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jillbowie
Jan 21, 20232 min read
January 2023 - Lailas, Antigua Street, Edinburgh
So for the first Meetup of 2023, we headed to Laila's for their legendary brunch in the New Town. Its is conveniently located opposite...
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jillbowie
Jan 15, 20232 min read
January 2023 - Tapa - The Shore, Leith, Edinburgh
Tapa is a perfect solution to a dark, blustery, winters evening in Edinburgh. The fairy lights leading the way into the Restaurant set...
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jillbowie
Jan 14, 20232 min read
January - the worst month of the year ... or is it?
#dryjanuary - the expectation you can go a month without drinking after a month filled with drinking and not feel like you are missing...
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jillbowie
Jan 14, 20233 min read
Welcome!!!
So I decided to start a blog ... maybe its about 10 years too late and I should be Tik Toking or something instead but oh well here I am....
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