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Hello,
My dutch friend is very keen on trying some Haggis 🙄
Do any locals have a good recommendation for a nice place to get some for a meal etc ?
Thanks
Why the 🙄 ?
No idea round there, sorry.
Well it's just haggis i don't see the fascination with trying it.
It might be too far @ 2.5 hours, but Ronnie Gray, Braemar Butcher; has awards for his Haggis. Shoots 'em himself 😉
No-one else in the world has it, it tastes very unlike most other things, it's interesting to try new things? Seems odd that a scot would be dismissive of someone wanting to sample their native foods. Maybe thats just me!
Im not Scottish... Anyway i don't have a problem with her wanting to try it.
The Chippy on the corner of the grassmarket does a damn fine haggis supper.
Nah, you want the country haggis, as the urban haggis just feeds itself on rubbish. Plus the country one has longer legs and more flavour 🙂
MacSween's butcher (I think) in Bruntsfield, just before Holy Corner used to get loads of awards for their haggis - it's the one with all the sheepskins hanging in the window. Not sure if it's still there or not TBH.
what user removed said.
Just to clarify i meant a resturant etc not a butcher to take some home etc.
But thanks for the info so far.
MacSween's haggis is still widely available but they no longer have a retail shop in Bruntsfield.
You should be able to buy a haggis in any decent Edinburgh butcher or supermarket.
the kitchen in Leith - run by Tom Kitchen of Celeb Master chef fame.
Hmm - haggis isn't really a restaurant dish - it's peasant food.
Maybe you could cook one for your friend - it isn't hard.
monster mash just up the road from Greyfriars does an ace haggis and neeps
Just about any restaurant in Edinburgh will have haggis. How posh/expensive do you want to go?
theres a great game butcher down stockbridge but i dont know the name,his haggis is great.any peckhams will do nacsweens haggis.very good also
Cant remember the name but the restaurant at the converted bank, lovely stuff!!!
Was going to suggest the Dogs;
http://www.thedogsonline.co.uk/index.html
but the menu doesn't show Haggis.... supposed to be a Scottish restauraunt! Still, recommended anyway.
Sorry for the delay had to nip away...
Well nothing too posh posh, just somewhere normal in Edinburgh etc. Most of the places i went past didn't serve it though which is why i asked. The only place i did find it served as at the Standing Order.
Try the lunch menu at Maison Bleu, just off the Grassmarket. Get 2 (small) courses for £6.90, so 2 of you could get 4, one being haggis (on a whisky mash) for under £15- not too much damage if it isn't a hit.
We went to Urban Angel in the New Town, hanover Street. Scottish Fusion cuisine, plenty of haggis-incorporating dishes on the menu, sublime food, good service.
checked out the Kitchin - too expensive 😐
Monster mash looks good.
Urban Angel looks good too.
Thanks for the info folks.
[i]Just about any restaurant in Edinburgh will have haggis.[/i]
really? do you think that's all we eat up here? deep fried mars bar for pudding too...
Also consider The Dome on George Street, I think they do a traditional haggis neeps and tatties. Very posh looking place but the price of food isn't too bad and it's an amazing place to see.
Peckham's Downstairs in Bruntsfield will probably do it as they have it (MacSweens) upstairs, just go down the spiral staircase.
Though Howies in the same area might have it too but it just appears to be bastardised version such as Haggis Spring Rolls.
Oh, don't be tempted to go into Montpelliers next door...it's full of ****ers mainly.
[i]No-one else in the world has it, it tastes very unlike most other things, [/i]
Except maybe white pudding and other sausage like things.
I've never had any sausage which looked or tasted in any way similar to haggis. And white pudding is completely different.
Haggis with whisky sauce tatties and neeps...****ing delicious!
The last I had was in a pub in New Town, really dark little place even during the day. The venue in question seemed to be solely illuminated by lots and lots of candles and had many golfing and fishing things hanging from the ceiling. Probably a tourist trap to the connoisseurs, but a very enjoyable meal all the same.
Go to Winstons just off Corstorphine Road and ask for a haggis pie - with gravy. Lunch is best as you then have a few hours to digest it all.
http://www.haggis-n-neeps.co.uk/
found at some outdoor events does great haggis rolls, with game chutney or caramalized onions from what I remember...
When ever I go home to Edinburgh, I head down to the Last Drop in the Grass Market and have haggis, neeps and tatties washed down with generous servings of 80/-
It's not posh, but the food is reasonable, staff are friendly and the atmoshpere good.
Haggis is cheap peasant food. Sheeps stomach filled with minced offal and oatmeal.
I always laugh at place that advertise "traditional scottish cuisine" That will be salt fish, mutton, potatoes and oats then perhaps some shellfish with a few raspberries. Thats about yer lot for "traditional scottish cuisine"
[i]I've never had any sausage which looked or tasted in any way similar to haggis.[/i]
Doesn't mean they aren't any, there's also plenty other countries use a similar process for similar food products. Haggis is just another thing Scots claim to be their invention which they've just nicked.
Drac - really? Most countries have their way of using up the offal - but I have never seen anything similar to Haggis - go on then - name the similar items.
The one I had on tuesday was yuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Actually your right would seem I'm mistaken Haggis is the only prepared in this manner but it's not of Scottish origin seems to be back to the Romans again.
Haggis is cheap peasant food
So is a fair amount of traditional cuisine, British cooking would be fair more highly regarded abroad if we hadn't forgotten in the postwar period just how good "cheap peasant food" can be...