Well I was very excited to visit Edinburgh for the first time after hearing how beautiful the city is. We got ourselves a flight with our airmiles (thank you Tesco clubcard!) and a very cheap Travelodge room which was great and right in the city centre so perfect for exploring during our short 2 night stay (Check it out - Edinburgh Central Waterloo Place).
I was also looking forward to eating out whilst being away and had been looking for information on places to eat in Edinburgh when I came across this fab article from The Guardian which lists Edinburgh's 10 best budget eateries. We had a quick mooch through this list when we arrived in Edinburgh and decided to book a table at The Dogs for that evening, I realise now that we were very lucky to get in as its such a popular restaurant!
We enjoyed the rest of the day by visiting the castle and seeing the changing of the guards, a trip to the Edinburgh Dungeons and trying out a few pubs. We had some lunch in All Bar One which was fine we all just had chicken baguettes to keep us going until the evening.
I spotted Lakeland opposite All Bar One and promised myself to have a nose through there before leaving Edinburgh as we don't have a Lakeland in Birmingham and I just love and adore it!
**The Dogs Restaurant in Edinburgh**
Finally time to go to The Dogs! I was quite excited to visit this quirky restaurant. We were seated and the waitress brought us a jug of water and menus. The menu had something for everyone without being huge so we didn't take long to decide what we were going to have, 2 of us went for the stargazy fish pie with puff pastry (£10.50), 1 of us had chicken and asparagus pie with mash (£10.25) and the last order was for the skirt steak, chips, smoked garlic butter (£11.75). I was tempted to have the steak myself but the fish pie sounded very interesting and I do love my seafood so I couldn't resist this.
The dining room was pretty small but the atmosphere was amazing, everyone was relaxed and having a great time. The Dog theme really stands out and makes it so unusual from huge pictures and statues to small dogs on cusions.
Our food arrived and it couldn't have been better, when I ordered my stargazer fish-pie the waitress had mentioned that there would be a sardine on the pie which could be easily removed I wasn't expecting it to be like this because I had never heard of a stargazer pie but it made it look really special...
I just pulled the head slightly and all of the bones came out leaving just the meat inside the pie. It was such a tasty pie and it included all of my favourite fish with a yummy pastry topping so I couldn't have asked for a better dish.
We all enjoyed our meals but were too full to have any desserts which is a shame as im sure they would be just as tasty.
I have been reading about The Dogs and can see that they have opened two more restaurants which are called amore dogs and the seadogs, we saw amore dogs as this is just a few doors away from The Dogs and its Italian themed, I don't know where The Seadogs restaurant is but I definitely want to try at least one if not both of these restaurants on my next visit to Edinburgh!
I hope you are having a great week so far and that you enjoyed my mini food review and information on my visit to Edinburgh!
