Edinburgh Michelin star restaurant awarded ‘top meal’ award in Good Food Guide
A family-run Edinburgh restaurant has been recognised in The Good Food Guide’s 10 best meals of the year by food experts.
Timberyard on Lady Lawson Street was praised by inspectors, with the Michelin starred restaurant being the only Scottish venue to make the list.
Owned and operated by Edinburgh’s Radford family since 2012, the restaurant continues to reinforce its position at the forefront of both Scottish and British dining.
The Good Food Guide inspector said: “So many aspects of a visit to Timberyard are Narnia-adjacent – from the potion-like fermentations in the stone shed outside to the watery soundscape in the bathrooms – that your time there is spellbinding even before you've eaten anything.
“Many of the meal's highlights are treasures from Scotland's chilly seas; sweet, silky langoustines in beach rose vinegar; an Isle of Barra scallop as big as a duck egg; smoked red mullet with bergamot and Octomore whisky.
“A real event of a cheese course arrived with a full frame of honeycomb, wine was generally poured from jeroboams, even the petits fours – rose-flavoured pastilles ('our version of Tangfastics') and delicate, pine-infused choux bun mouthfuls – were presented with the most demure but purposeful sense of occasion. It's a restaurant that has its very own spirit.”
Other restaurant named in the list were: Singburi in London, Taverna Trilussa in Rome, Bottega Caruso in Margate, Ona in Nigeria, Ebi Sushi in Derby, Rare Bird Distillery in North Yorkshire, The Hop Pole Inn in Wiltshire, Agnes and Sherman in Houston, Texas and Lucky Lychee in Winchester.