Dogstar

You'll find Dogstar tucked away on Portland Place in Leith, where the restaurant's doing something refreshingly straightforward — making British food that doesn't apologise for itself. Walk in and you're in a warm, unpretentious space that feels like somewhere locals actually want to spend an evening, not somewhere designed for Instagram. The menu changes with the seasons, but you're looking at the kind of stuff that makes you wonder why more places don't just cook this well: proper proteins, vegetables that taste like something, sauces that took time. It's the sort of place where a 4.8 rating from regular punters means something.