This is a lovely, relaxed way to spend a Sunday in Edinburgh with a leisurely start at 12 midday, with Scottish gin cocktails (or equally delicious mocktails) and smoked salmon canapés in a gorgeous 18th century townhouse. This tour is similar to our Friday tour, but we make a detour to the wonderful Sunday Morning Stockbridge Farmers Market. At the Bonnie Feast stall, we try some unique seaweed chutney – sweet and savoury (I promise you it’s delicious) cultured butter made in Edinburgh on local bread and salt from the restored salt mills across the Firth of Forth, in Pittenweem in Fife.
Then haggis (meat or veggie) in a traditional Scottish pub, then a walk along the most instagrammed street in Edinburgh, to be rewarded with freshly churned Perthshire ice cream, then a guided chocolate tasting – the best hot chocolate this side of the Firth of Forth and a handmade chocolate. finishing with a single malt whisky from Islay in a speakeasy bar.
This tour focuses on the best of Scottish food – sourced from independent suppliers – taking in the magnificent UNESCO Georgian New Town, (the largest Georgian city in the world) and vibrant Stockbridge village.
We finish near the Sunday Morning Stockbridge Market – which is open till 4pm, so you can return at your leisure to try more Scottish foods such as honey, cakes, breads, jam as well as adorable tartan accessories for your four-legged friends, and local art.
This afternoon food tour is a lovely way to access some of the best of Scottish food in a beautiful part of Edinburgh that is not really on the tourist trail – and is a great complement to The Old Town. I recommend doing an Old Town tour first, as The New Town (well, it was new in 1746!) was built as result of over crowding in the medieval Old Town which had grown up round The Castle.
The tour offers a very generous lunch, with architectural and historical amuse-bouches such as why are there so many painted windows in The New Town? Book a tour and find out why over an Islay single malt in a iconic pub which only plays vinyl – rock ‘n’ roll or jazz.
NOTE The final bar on our itinerary is not licensed for people under 18 to be on the premises, so if there are under 18s in your party, we can cater for everyone only up tp the last stop where there is the over 18 restriction – so extra chocolate for the under 18s.
Or would you like to see some of our other lovely walking food tours in Edinburgh
