Outlander Jamie Fraser actor Sam Heughan enjoys 'iconic dish' at Edinburgh restaurant and poses for photos

The Scottish actor, who plays Highland Warrior Jamie Fraser in the hit time travel series, visited The Kitchin in Leith on Sunday.

Heughan, 44, happily posed for a picture with the award-winning restaurant's owner, Edinburgh-born Michelin Star chef Tom Kitchin.

Posting on his Instagram account, Sam wrote: “Always wonderful to visit @thekitchin and see Chef @tom_kitchin at work.

Outlander star Sam Heughan, right, poses for a photo with Tom Kitchin, left, after enjoying a meal at the Kitchin restaurant in Edinburgh. Photo: Tom Kitchin

“The whole experience is so well curated, with great passion and attention to detail, celebrating the best that Scotland has to offer!”.

Dumfries-shire born Heughan, who moved to Edinburgh as a teenanger, was pictured holding a bottle of his premium Sassenach whisky.

He added: "Now proudly serving @sassenachspirits in all locations! Go visit his amazing restaurants if you’re in town".

Chef Kitchin later took to his own Instagram to say it was a pleasure to host his good friend Heughan. He wrote: "Great to see our friend @samheughan again at @thekitchin as he joined us in between filming to try out some of his favourite summer serves using @sassenachspirits Whisky and Gin…

"A shared genuine passion for the best of Scotland’s food and drink – perfectly balanced with a wee dram of Sam’s Sassenach Whisky…

"Sam and @tom_kitchin also enjoyed one of our iconic dishes, ‘Scallop in the shell’, which has been a firm favourite with our Outlander friends since the ‘Men in Kilts’ series.. Sláinte!".

Earlier this year, Heughan was seen enjoying a meal in Edinburgh with the Outlander crew – and it sounded like the drinks were flowing.

The actor and his pals were guests of TV chef Tony Singh at The Supper Club, where they had cocktails and canapes before tucking into a stunning array of dishes as part of an 8-course meal.

On that occasion, Heughan also took to social media after the meal to say he had a great time at the restaurant – although he hinted there may have been a tad too much to drink.

He wrote on his Instagram page: “Thankful for such a wonderful team, who have supported and worked so hard over the years on @outlander_starz. Less thankful for the hangover.”

Heughan recently opened up about his family’s move to Edinburgh when he was a teenager – saying it was like a “like a whole new world for him” after he moved from his native Dumfries and Galloway to the Scottish capital at the age of 12.

In his memoir Waypoints, he talks about what it was like to be uprooted from a quiet community to a bustling city.

In a chapter titled ‘The Wake-Up Call’, Heughan reveals that his family moved to Edinburgh so his mother could enrol at Edinburgh College of Art. He writes: “After years of living in a quiet community, my mother, my brother and I packed our belongings for what felt like a whole new world.

“Swapping the stable and the castle ruins for a suburban street in Edinburgh, we set about settling in for this new chapter in our lives.

“It was a big change, but also hugely exciting for two young lads like Cirdan and me. I had just finished at my little primary school, so I started high school at the same time as all my new classmates.

“It was a little overwhelming to begin with, but since I could now see without the dreaded glasses, I soon started to make friends and feel comfortable in a crowd.”

The 12-year-old Heughan attended James Gillespie's High School, which he recalls as having “very strong on rules and discipline”.

He also remembers a run-in with the school’s head teacher, after an incident involving a carton of milk

Heughan writes: “On one occasion, I came very close to getting into trouble from the top.

“At the time, I had just been made a school prefect... The incident began with a milk carton. I had been tasked with helping to dish them out at break time to pupils who were part of a milk-in-schools scheme

“On finding one left over, I decided to join the scheme for one break only... A moment later, like a gunslinger in some two-bit town, the headmistress stepped out.

“My eyes went wide with horror... I seized an escape route in the form of the door to the toilet block... I took one look at the open window and lobbed it out.”

Musing that it was the perhaps first time he ever got into character, Heughan goes on to describe raiding a bin once his headmistress questioned him about the missing milk carton – and how he bluffed her after luckily finding one at the bottom.

He writes: “The headmistress considered the carton in my hand... Once again she seemed to be searching my expression for cracks. The face-off only lasted for a couple of seconds, but it felt like a lifetime.

“It was perhaps the first occasion that I'd got into character, and it wouldn't be the last. Ultimately it showed me what was possible if I delivered it with conviction.”