This week we are showing off and blowing our own trumpet, as the book ‘Edinburgh on a Plate’ has arrived—and we are in it! It is a collaboration of many restaurants coming together to showcase the dishes we like to cook for you when you come to eat with us. I do not want to give too much away, as I want you to buy a copy of the book—available at Cafe St Honoré or Waterstones.

Reading through the list of chefs is mighty impressive, with Stuart Ralston of Lyla, Lloyd Morse from The Palmerston, and so many more great chefs here in the capital. The dishes I chose to cook—and for you to cook at home—are classics at Cafe: a cod and bisque with aioli, venison with black pudding rosti potato, and of course a Montezuma organic dark chocolate fondant. There are a few tips to help make these dishes easy to recreate at home.

All in all, it is a great book. Please do pop in to buy a copy next time you are passing. If all goes well, we may need to do a reprint, which would make our friend and editor Ferrier Richardson—himself a very talented chef—extremely happy. This was Ferrier’s idea many years ago. He first published ‘Glasgow on a Plate’, then i, then Scotland, then Glasgow again, and now Edinburgh once more. I am thrilled to say I have appeared in three versions. What a show-off. And for those of you who know, I have not aged a bit in those 25 years. Go and buy a copy before all the first editions sell out.