Stravaigin

Located in a busy street close to the university, this popular café-bar has picked up several awards for its food (including two AA Rosettes) and design. The modern split-level basement restaurant draws the crowds with its contemporary décor, stone and leather-covered walls, modern art and quirky antiques. The award-winning bar offers an extensive wine list and real ales like Fyne Ales Chip 71 and Belhaven Best. Expect innovative and exciting fusion food cooked from top-notch Scottish ingredients. The wide range of eclectic dishes may include sticky Korean pork cheek with a brown rice cake and kimchi (spicy pickled cabbage); Mexican meatball, black bean and tortilla soup; Pentland pheasant Kiev with poppy seed and horseradish rösti and pickled cabbage; haggis, neeps and tatties (veggie version available); and pistachio and olive oil cake, pistachio sabayon, date pastilla and coffee mascarpone for dessert (wines are recommended with each dessert).