Teuchter’s Landing, Leith: This portside pub, tucked away off Commercial Street, is known for its Scottish cuisine – haggis, neeps tatties, cullen skink – served in wee mugs. Also it’s a “free hoose” and offers a vast array of single malts and beers for aficionados. But it must be said it is an amazingly confusing space – […]
Life, Arts & Leisure
Shocking, relevant and Now on show
Art exhibition: Now Modern art’s ability to provoke, stimulate or even offend will always divide opinion and a new programme at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh may do just that. NOW, a series of six exhibitions in Modern One, might kindly be regarded as ‘eclectic’. The installations range from scenes of suffrage […]
Space to chill in chic hillside hotel
Hotel review – Macdonald Monchique Hotel, Portugal: Stylish and ultra-modern, the Macdonald Monchique Resort & Spa, north of Portugal’s popular Algarve region, is certainly of its time. Spectacularly angular, it is almost entirely grey and white, reflecting a minimalism that also contributes to the deliberately spacial design. It is the Scots-based Macdonald group’s second hotel […]
A haven of peace is just so Stobo
Travel review: There was a howling wind and the rain was making it hard to see the road ahead. Storm Barbara had swept in from the Atlantic and we felt like the car was about to be washed away. It was, though, a perfect way to arrive at our destination. A warm welcome took on […]