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Kirsty Wilkins

Critic · Journalist — Edinburgh restaurants, weighted to the neighborhoods the city desks reach late: Slateford, Shandon, Tollcross.

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Kirsty Wilkins is a named, dated reviewer for Bite Magazine, the independent Edinburgh food title, and she has been publishing there since at least 2019. Her reviews are first-person and visit-based, and she reads a kitchen's intent off the cooking: on Gio's she identifies what the chef is doing to the local idiom, "redefining Scottish pasta, which is normally heavy, creamy sauces, for instance, combining bisques into his seafood pasta", and names the dish that carried it.

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• Bite Magazine ↗their review · 2025-02-28
  • Gio's EdinburghMerchiston

    “One element is redefining Scottish pasta, which is normally heavy, creamy sauces – for instance, combining bisques into his seafood pasta.”