Music in the back room on Thursdays, a long lunch on Sundays, and a supper or a tasting most weeks. Each date shows when our lamps go on that evening.
Every week
Thursdays &Sundays
Thursdays · 20:00
Music in the back room
Folk, jazz and the odd string quartet, from 20:00. Free; book a table if you want to sit near.
Sundays · 12:30
Long lunch
One roast, the small plates, and the lamps on early once the clocks go back.
October to January
Nights toBook
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Thu22Oct
Music · 20:00 · Free
Mairi Lennox Trio
Voice, piano and double bass: Scots songs and slow jazz in the back room.
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Sun25Oct
Night · 12:30
The clocks go back
British Summer Time ends at two in the morning, so Sunday’s lamps go on an hour earlier. Long lunch from 12:30.
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Thu29Oct
Tasting · 18:30 · £35
Skin contact: six orange wines
White grapes left on their skins for a month or more, from Georgian qvevri to the Loire, with Ailsa and a plate of small things.
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Thu5Nov
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Thu12Nov
Supper · 19:00 · £48
Game supper
Four courses from the season: venison, grouse and pheasant, with wines to match.
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Thu19Nov
Night · 17:00 · £7 a glass
Beaujolais nouveau
The new Gamay can’t be sold before 00:01 on the third Thursday of November. We pour it from five, with saucisson and lentils.
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Mon30Nov
Supper · 19:00 · £42
St Andrew’s Day supper
We open on a Monday for this one. Cullen skink, beef shin, cranachan.
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Mon21Dec
Night · 15:39
The longest night
The shortest day of the year. Lamps at 15:39, soup on from four, open till one.
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Mon25Jan 2027
Supper · 19:00 · £45
Burns supper
Haggis, neeps and tatties, a reading or two, and the whisky cream from the cranachan.
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Free nights need no ticket; booked nights are paid when we confirm your seats. Past dates drop off this list on their own.