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Restaurant review: The Stockbridge Restaurant, Edinburgh

WHEN it comes to romance this Valentine’s Day, just follow your heart. Actually, don’t bother.

Duck's at Kilspindie House, Aberlady, East Lothian. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Restaurant review: Duck’s at Kilspindie House, Main Street, Aberlady

SEVEN years ago, the Edinburgh institution known as Duck’s at Le Marché Noir began the process of decamping to the high street of the East Lothian village of Aberlady and morphing into Duck’s at Kilspindie House.

Mithas in Dock Place, Leith. Picture: Jayne Wright

Restaurant review: Mithas, Dock Place, Edinburgh

SLOTH. That’s my only excuse for taking so long to visit this Indian restaurant – which opened last summer.

When it’s chilly outside, and you live at the other end of the capital, it can feel as if you have to cross two time zones to get to the bottom of Leith.

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Pic Greg Macvean, 11/01/2012, Caffe e Cucina on Morningside Road for Spectrum review

Restaurant review: Caffe e Cucina, Bruntsfield

THE exterior of the new Caffe e Cucina is the equivalent of a plain biscotto. That’s in comparison to this Morningside corner’s former incarnation – the luscious Loopy Lorna’s, which closed down four months ago and was a Battenburg cake of a cafe, with liquorice, vanilla and strawberry livery, plus a jolly giant teapot sign hanging above the doorway.

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The Blue Marlin, Camperdown Street, Dundee. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Restaurant review: The Blue Marlin, Camperdown Street, Dundee

DUNDEE, long the butt of jokes about being twinned with Beirut, is changing.

Knockinaam Lodge near Portpatrick. Photo: Robert Perry

Restaurant review: Knockinaam Lodge, Portpatrick

KNOCKINAAM Lodge keeps winning gongs for being one of Scotland’s most romantic hotels, and even through the hurricane-force winds that accompanied our visit you can see the judges’ point.

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Martha's 142A St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5LQ 0141 248 9771 hello@mymarthas.co.uk

Restaurant review: Martha’s, St Vincent Street Glasgow

WANT cheeseburger. Pay 99p. Eat it. When it comes to traditional fast food, it’s the lack of information that helps to define the genre.

Restaurant review: Cafe Fish, 15 North West Circus Place, Edinburgh

YOU can’t buck the law of supply and demand. There has been an explosion of new restaurants down in Leith, with the opening of Mithas, on Dock Place, the latest arrival in an increasingly crowded culinary ghetto where heavyweight restaurants are now scrapping hard for trade.