Hello, how are you today?

It seems an absolute age since I last typed an email. I don’t know where the time goes. I am sure many of you have been holidaying, gardening & dining out since I last got in touch. We love hearing about what you are up to when you dine with us. Also recommendations for parts of the world to enjoy & great places to dine for us are also appreciated. Last month we took you up on a recommendation. Always booking with slight trepidation, we are more of the ‘tried & tested’ camp for dining out. Well thank you for recommending The Free Company near Balerno, we have not enjoyed a lunch out like this for such a long time & would not hesitate to recommend it ourselves. The food, service, ambience & wine were faultless. We will definitely return. It is a bit of trek to get to from here. We planned to the walk the 25 mins from the Balerno bus stop but the weather was less than faultness. In fact it was absolutely chucking it down, so a taxi it had to be.

Our Light Lunch & Chateaubriand promotions have come to an end but we have a fabulous new one for you. This is now running lunch & dinner, Tuesday-Saturday until the end of June. After that date we hope the Hot Roasted Shellfish Platter will return at weekends. As you know it is very weather dependent.

We are offering a ‘Surf & Turf’ sharing dish. Enjoy a 800g 32 Day Dry Aged Cote de Boeuf, Eight succulent Atlantic King Prawns in Garlic Butter. Add two side dishes of your choice. All for the great value price of £95. We have kept the price the same as last year & there is not much in life the same price as in 2025!

Woody’s Wine Cellar is now available. We have curated a wee list of wines we have enjoyed over the years. Very personal to us, hope you enjoy them too!

Do you remember Larry our lobster who went walkabout? Not really walkabout, he was stolen!

No, Larry sadly has not been returned. We now have Larry mark II. On our recent holiday I was mooching about a wonderful interiors shop called Mor of Auchterarder & found this beautiful specimen. I could have spent a fortune in there but was very restrained. There is a fabulous mirror that may make it down the road in the coming weeks if I cannot stop thinking about it!

We put out on our socials to find a name for our new lobster. The one that was mentioned a few times & I like it too is Clawdia. It is going to have a tweak in the name though. We have a delightful guest who comes to us a couple of times a year from Belgium. She also is quite partial to lobster when dining with us. So with her name being Colette I am naming our new lobster after this lovely lady. So we now have a ‘Clawette’ the lobster. Must be said in a Belgian accent!