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The ultimate guide to Edinburgh’s speciality food shops

A piece to give the lie to the “deeply pleasant fiction” that The Good Food Guide’s inspectors are pampered sybarites who fine-dine daily. In fact, they have to go shopping for food like the rest of us. Bookmark this guide to Edinburgh’s best food purveyors by the GFG’s local inspector for your next trip.

The Good Food Guide

“Prince Harry used to help butcher venison”: Clare Smyth on feeding the A-list and her royal regulars

Three Michelin star chef Clare Smyth doesn’t give a great many in-depth interviews, so hats off to occasional CODE contributor Ben McCormack for securing this one. Smyth has just opened her second London restaurant, Corenucopia, in Chelsea. This piece had us racing to book a table. Mashed potato with caviar or white truffle? Yes please!

Daily Telegraph

“I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began”

Human rights lawyer turned food writer Yasmin Khan founder herself at the centre of a legal storm when she used the word ‘sabzi’, “part of the daily lexicon of more than a billion people across cultures and borders” for her latest cookbook. A clear-eyed account of Khan’s first-person experience with more twists and turns (spoiler: the Duchy of Cornwall gets involved) than we ever expected.

The Guardian

David Ellis reviews Bonheur: Gordon Ramsay’s top dog conquers Le Gavroche

The Standard’s David Ellis is first in at Bonheur, the new Mayfair restaurant from former Gordon Ramsay right-hand-man and chef de cuisine, Matt Abé. The verdict? Largely positive. “In time I may forget the room, but I’ll always remember the food.”

The Standard