The Scran and Scallie

The Good Food Guide calls the house steak pie a stonker and Harden's diners say they would go back just for that steak pie!2 3

Why go

Tom and Michaela Kitchin have run this Georgian pub in Stockbridge since 2013, and the 2026 MICHELIN Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, its mark for good cooking at a fair price.1 It placed 41st in the Top 50 Gastropubs for 2025.4 The Good Food Guide describes mismatched chairs, bare tables and menus that speak a lightly accented dialect, as in Sit ye doon, yer welcome, over pub classics done properly: neeped and tattied haggis, fish and chips with chunky tartare, smoked Orkney scallops with cauliflower and raisins.2 The Times files it among its eleven Edinburgh picks as the one that is best for family-friendly cheffy thrills, which is a specific piece of positioning in a group whose other rooms are not built that way.6

Order this / avoid

Order: the steak pie. Two independent sources, a guide inspector and a diners' poll, land on the same dish.2
Order: the smoked Orkney scallops with cauliflower and raisins if they are on. The guide says the dish has become virtually a pub favourite in its own right.2
Avoid: reading pub prices into it. Harden's puts the average at 86 pounds a head.3

What locals & experts say

The Good Food Guide, on a room that manages to feel both dynamically of its city, but also slightly rustic too, as though a country inn had found its way to the bright lights, and on a dessert menu that majors in toffee, chocolate and caramel in the colder months.2
Harden's diners (2026), on an excellent spot that is always fun to visit and child-friendly too, which they call a saviour if you have children with you. That is a reader poll, and it should be read at a poll's weight.3
MICHELIN Guide (2026): Bib Gourmand, on the guide's own card and on the Scotsman's February 2026 roster of the Scottish entries.1 5
Time Out (February 2025): 41st in the Top 50 Gastropubs.4
Tom Kitchin on his own pub (The Relisher, August 2026), which is his word about his own room and carries no weight as a recommendation. Asked where a traveller should eat roasted grouse, he sends people here instead of to his starred restaurant, and he tells you how to eat it: with your hands, with friends.8

Good to know

Address: 9-11 Mary's Place, Stockbridge. Harden's files the same corner site as 1 Comely Bank Road.
Booking: recommended. A Bib holder in a residential neighbourhood fills at weekends.
Who it suits: families. The Times says so and the guide confirms children and vegetarians are properly catered for.
Price: Harden's diners' poll puts the average at 86 pounds a head.
Drinks: an extensive list of wines by the glass in all sizes, and Champagne from Philipponnat.2
On the walls: Kitchin has old Scottish recipes printed here, pulled from the National Library of Scotland's food history collections, which run from a countess's handwritten recipe book of the 1680s to a pastry book of 1734. Reading the originals takes a free library card and a reservation.8
Season: grouse runs from 12 August to roughly October, so the dish Kitchin sends you here for has a two-month window.8
Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 11 May 2026, FHRSID 662675. Three months old.9

Verdict

should-visit — Tom and Michaela Kitchin's Stockbridge pub, running since 2013, holds a Bib Gourmand in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide and came 41st in the Top 50 Gastropubs for 2025. Two independent sources land on the same dish: the Good Food Guide calls the house steak pie a stonker, and Harden's diners say they would go back just for it. Around it sit neeped and tattied haggis, fish and chips with chunky tartare, and smoked Orkney scallops with cauliflower and raisins, with a Scandi note in the room that nods to Michaela's Swedish heritage. The Times files it as the family-friendly room in a group whose others are not that, and the guide confirms children and vegetarians are properly looked after. Harden's puts the average at 86 pounds a head, which is worth knowing before you read pub prices into it.

The Scran and Scallie.