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Self-catering & Cooking at the flat
While Edinburgh is full of great restaurants, one of the advantages of going 'self catering' is that you have the option of eating in.
There are a lot of stores nearby (walking distance) to get your supplies from:
• Sainsburys
on St Andrew Square. Good for general stuff - is one of their 'express' stores
• Marks & Spencers food hall
Usual use the entrance from Rose Street. Lots of good quality if slightly expensive
• Jenners Food hall.
also on Rose Street. For the exotic and uppermost quality
• Tesco
is about a 25 minute walk down to Canonmills -- take a taxi with your shopping back. Better yet, use their online store and have it delivered!
• Valvona and Crolla
about a 10 minute walk, on Elm Row past the multiplex cinema, is the Mecca of Italian delicatessens in the UK. Shop here if you want to impress. See
http://www.valvonacrolla.co.uk/
• Broughton Street.
just down hill and across the big roundabout is home to numerous small shops, including one of the UK's best butchers, Crombies -- a *must* for sausage connoisseurs! The street also boasts a great fishmonger, a branch of Real Foods, an Oddbins and the even better Ville Neuve Wines, and the excellent London Street Grocery at the bottom of Brought St which has some of the freshest produce in Edinburgh.
There is also a small grocery store on Waterloo Place with some essentials.
• Lidl.
good value for money at Nicholson Square
• On Waterloo Place,
in close vicinity there is a little shop for the most basic groceries.
The Cooker:
If you've never cooked on a cast-iron cooker such as the Rayburn (like an Aga) then you are in for a treat, but you need to learn a few tricks:
The cooker is always on. That means there is always a low heat coming from it -- great for keeping the hot water hot, drying clothes and warming food. Never turn the 'cooker' knob to 'off', you will lose your hot water!
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