Ahhh - the delights of August in Edinburgh. There's a choice - hide at home chunterring about "bloody tourists" clogging up Princes Street and your favourite bars. Or embrace the hordes of humanity shifting aimlessly around the town and thank the street artists - such as the Zambezi choir on Rose Street yesterday - for keeping you amused and engaged with the diversity of the arts.
So yesterday I went with a chum to the Martin Creed exhibition at the Fruitmarket. No entrance fee to an excellent gig which I would recommend for its playfulness. Don't miss taking the lift - and please try and play Three Blind Mice on the stairs.
After this - and a not so successful theatre piece - it was food for the body rather than the mind time. I have been a fan of David Ramsden's Dogs enterprises. So we went to the Seadogs - the third incarnation - which as you can imagine, focusses on fish dishes. My chum had posh folks Fish Fingers, chips and beans whilst I had battered Smoked Hake with chips and mushy peas. They didn't look like large portions but were wonderfully filling. We couldn't resist the desserts. My chum is a sucker for jelly - so she had this with a lemon sorbet. She looked particularly chipper afterwards. I had the banoffee fool - mmmm. All this came to about twenty quid for the pair of us.
Fresh, satisfying and tasty food right in the heart of Edinburgh. Oh - and great wallpaper!!!
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