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Chitra Ramaswamy

Critic · Journalist · Author · Broadcaster — Scottish restaurants, Glasgow and Edinburgh, reviewed from a visit and written at dish level; food writing at large.

restaurant critic for The Times Scotland and The Observer, TV critic and writer for The Guardian, and a BBC radio broadcaster. Her Homelands: The History of a Friendship won the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year and her first book won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. She has been reviewing for the Scotland edition since 2020 and lives in Edinburgh, so the Glasgow coverage is a critic travelling through her own country rather than a national desk parachuting in. Credentials read 2026-08-01 from her Scottish Book Trust author page and her Muck Rack profile, which files her beat as Food and Dining at The Times.

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

• The Times (Scotland), restaurant review, read through Harden's Review of the Reviews ↗their review · 2026-04-07
  • QasbaGovanhill

    “Boulazreg's food is sensational: intricately spiced, festooned with herbs that are put-you-on-your-back fresh, teeming with gigantic flavours and cunning ideas.”