We met Alan, our food/walk tour guide and owner of Eat Walk Edinburgh at the Hotel Du Vin in Edinburgh for their afternoon tour. There was 7 in our group, a couple from Washington, D.C., a couple from Melbourne and their friend.
At the hotel, which has lots of history and a beautiful wine tasting room and cellar, we enjoyed oatmeal crusted herring with a tomato chow, it was lovely.
We left the hotel and walked for about 10-15 minutes and made a quick stop at a tasting room that sells olive oils and spirits. We each tried a shot of one of the liquors, the favourite was a rhubarb vodka, made by a farmer in Scotland. Neat spot!
For the main course we stopped at Calistoga, ” the California twist in Edinburgh”. We had our main course here of pork belly and mashed potato and paired with a red…
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