The Dogs

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110 Hanover Street
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH2 1DR

Phone: 0131 220 1208

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Gold starGold starGold starGold starGold star by (Williamstown, MA, USA) on 13 March 2009
The Dogs is especially renowned for its focus on local, British ingredients, particularly Scottish. The seafood all comes from Fife and Caithness. The website also adds that the fish are all sustainable. On the wine list there are even a few options from England, although most come from more obvious vineyards in France, Spain, Italy and the Americas. To start, they have excellent artisanal bread, always served still warm from the oven (0.85 per person). There is also a delicious, fresh salad of pear, stilton and walnuts (small - 4.20, big - 7.50). For the main course, I was anxious to try some fish, so I focused on that part of the menu. The fish being Scottish (and I being an American), there were a number of dishes I was unsure of. The staff were helpful in recommending and explaining. At lunch, I’ve ordered the kedgeree, a spiced fish and rich curry with a hard-boiled egg, as well as the seafood and bulgar wheat potage, a sort of bouillabaisse with a good variety of ingredients (each were 4.95). Both were delicious. At dinner, I ordered a seared coley with barley risotto (8.65). The waiter told me that coley is a Scottish fish commonly used in Scottish fish & chips suppers (The English use haddock.). It is very tasty unfried, quite tender. Not a great variation of choices on my part, I agree, but the divine smell of fish is always in the air and for me was irresistible. However, my companions to dinner, Alfred and Charles, ordered differently. Alfred had a beetroot, roast garlic and goats cheese barley risotto (8.75) and Charles had the pan fried turkey breast, cabbage, smoked bacon, chestnuts (8.95). My lunchtime companions, Martin and Alexander, ordered, respectively: a three cheese cauliflower risotto (4.75), and the pot roasted chicken leg (5.25), which was appropriately crisp and served with mashed potatoes and carrots. All was served nicely (and with good sized portions) without the pretentious ornamentation all too common in contemporary restaurants of this sort. The choice of barley in the risottos makes for an interesting variation of a classic food, very different from its Italian original. It has a definite taste of Britain in it. (5/5)

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