][1]OK, I think we may have uncovered the most Scottish Burns Night ever. The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh is holding a Burns Night Ceilidh fuelled by a menu so Scottish that it would bleed tartan if you cut it with a sgian dubh.
We’re talking Cullen skink, Findlay’s of Portobello haggis with East Lothian organic neeps and tatties accompanied by a complimentary dram, followed by cranachan made with Scottish raspberries and Graham’s The Family Dairy double cream.
Could it be any more Scottish? Yes, actually. The furniture in the venue is made by the Scottish interior design company Anta and the walls are hung with original oil paintings by celebrated Scottish artists such as Sir William Gillies and Anne Redpath.
The Burns Night Ceilidh takes place on Saturday 28 January from 7pm until 1am.
As it happens, the Scottish Cafe and Restaurant is up for the Best Customer Service of the Year Award at the Scottish Restaurant Awards. It is squaring up against 29, The Grill at the Square in Glasgow and EH15, the restaurant at the Jewel and Esk catering college.
][4]The Scottish Cafe and Restaurant is the sister restaurant to Centotre on George Street. While the galleries’ venue is as Scottish as Scottish can be, Centotre flies the flag for Italia.
Your blogger had lunch there yesterday and can recommend the super creamy buffalo mozzarella and the ginormo calzone stuffed with piccante sausage, spinach and rather fine tomatoes.
They are currently running a two course £15.95 lunch/pre-theatre offer with 5pm. Three courses are £18.95.