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Murray Chalmers

Critic · Journalist — Edinburgh restaurants, written as a weekly Friday column.

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Murray Chalmers publishes bylined, dated, first-person visit reviews in his own independent Scottish newsletter, written with a critic's vocabulary and a willingness to make a claim and defend it. On Mara's Picklery he wrote that every dish was "quietly revelatory, challenging flavour preconceptions in a way that was neither mannered nor misguided", and then gave a specific order instruction to go with it.

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• Scots Ink ↗their review · 2024-09-27
  • Mara's PickleryThe Grange

    “It's no exaggeration to say we could have eaten everything from this menu where each dish was quietly revelatory, challenging flavour preconceptions in a way that was neither mannered nor misguided.”