Eating Out In Edinburgh
Man must eat, especially bewtween all the Festial events, so we sent out one of our intrepid reporters, Kirsten Nielsen, to discover some of the new venues around Edinburgh to dine out on. Here’s her thoughts on Bakara, The Pit Cafe, and Momma Cherri’s Soul Food Shack.
Baraka
3-5 Infirmary Street.
Northern Africa is the main influence for this bar/restaurant/nightclub combo and like in a medina, it’s amazing what they manage to squeeze in:
In the restaurant area there’s room for 40 at dinner tables and another 20 on stools around low tables. The stools is to create space, but means back-breaking seats and people moving close by, so try to pre-book for decent dining. The food you are treated to is in line with the theme and from what I saw and tasted it’s fully sufficient and nice looking.
“Theme” and “sufficient” describes the interior too: It’s like it’s been handled by yards of framed material, the stools and coat of paint “African coloured”. There’s a theatrical alcove with velvety, deep seating in the night club – very Miami-night-club “Beds” – except overall you come away feeling “expense spared”.
The music promotion offers as broad a spectre as the establishment: “hot mix of “afroboogiediscotechhouseelectrosouljazzlatinfunk”. With the location and a few drinks promotions before 10pm added on, it could be just the place for a typically mixed festival gang looking for a place with late license.
The Pit Cafe
Pleasance Dome
The Dome is looking better and more active earlier on than in recent years. With the menu and prices of the pit café outlet I’d go as far as to say it’s worth taking a breather and watch the world go by here while getting a bite – the nachos looked fine and there were lots on the plate for just under £3. The salads, paninis, muffins and cakes are a little more expensive, but their strawberry tart good at £1.60.
Not only that I could get soya milk in my reasonably priced coffee to go with it, it was served by a nice young woman, the manageress shared a laugh and there’s a stage near by for live music! If this all gets too much you just ask for one of their freshly pressed juices and get on with life refreshed and replenished.
Momma Cherri’s Soul Food Shack
Pleasance Dome
Before lunch: Southern food for the masses -Yee haaaa! After lunch: ee aaaa?
“Soul in a Bowl” is the catch phrase - £3 gets you one bowl and £5 gets you two. So I decided on two: “Succulent Catfish Goujons” and “Cornbread”, but changed to “Baby-back Ribs in Momma’s own BBQ sauce” with “Cajun Potato Wedges” once I saw how sad the goujons looked.
Unfortunately cold sauce on one and a half plain rib with absolutely plain chips wasn’t any better. And an offer to microwave heat just wasn’t worth it for this one wee plastic bowl (paid for two), plastic fork and its content.
I can’t imagine the swearing this would have required when Charita Jones a.k.a. Momma Cherri was on Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares”. And this place is part of “Edinburgh Food Festival”? I’ve had better Southern food in the kind of fast food chain we love to hate while in Mississippi.
The good name of “wedges”, “Southern”, “Soul” and me were all ripped off and if not for the great lady serving me, I would have given it right back.
It can’t but get better.
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