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Vivian Maeda

Critic · Journalist — Edinburgh restaurants for Bite Magazine, with a strong line on fermenting and preserving.

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Vivian Maeda writes bylined, dated visit reviews that go dish by dish and stay concrete. Her Mara's Picklery piece is the only source that records what is actually in the kitchen's fridge, which is the detail that explains how that menu gets written.

Their own reviews and picks.

Their own judgment, in their own words, by the piece it appeared in.

• Bite Magazine ↗their review · 2025-05-08
  • Mara's PickleryThe Grange

    “cherry tomato kimchi on a bed of labneh, drizzled with sriracha, honey, and sesame, served with slices of sourdough. It's a revelation.”