Edinburgh’s Stockbridge has always been a coffee and a cake sort of place. However, it’s starting to become even more of a foodie destination, for dinner, lunch and drinks, stuffed cookies, sandwiches, pastry, pies and gelato. Whatever your yen, this is your neighbourhood.
The newest addition to the postcode will be Stockbridge Eating House. It’s opening at the end of St Stephen Street on October 17 and will be located in the former premises of iconic burger restaurant, Bell’s Diner, which was in situ for an incredible 52 years. Dishes on the ‘noon until night’ section of the menu will include razor clams, bacon and riesling; goat kebab; brown crab on toast, and lamb breast fritters, with puddings including sea buckthorn curd doughnuts.
This project is headed by Dale Mailley, the talented chef behind the 12-year-old Gardener’s Cottage in Royal Terrace Gardens and The Lookout on Calton Hill. We asked him a few questions about the new venue. Why are you branching out into a new restaurant, and are the Gardener's Cottage and The Lookout continuing? This is my first solo venture after over a decade at Gardener's Cottage.
Those restaurants will continue and I will remain as a director and shareholder. However, I'm excited about focusing on a casual offering and in a neighbourhood I love. Did you ever eat at Bell's Diner? What did you think? Yes, I did and I have very fond memories of the burgers served there, it was a great eatery and I'm super excited about taking i.