The Baked Potato Shop

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This review is taken from the current (2013) edition.

The founder may have retired two years ago, but new management are sticking to the Baked Potato Shop’s thirty-year mission to provide the ‘hottest tattie in town’. Proving hot doesn’t always mean beefy, they’re entirely veggie and vegan to the point of giving a 10% discount to vegetarian and animal rights group members. Tiffin and cakes are made on site, including a warming, seed-packed carrot cake that’s by no means just for vegans, and they’re known for their excellent veggie samosas. But of course the main attraction is that oven packed with crispy-skinned, fluffy-centred tatties, and the cabinet of fresh, multi-coloured salads that you can either pile into them, have on their own or cram into a roll. Servings come in small, medium or large, but the small will satisfy all but the dangerously famished. It’s then a choice between the likes of spicy veg curry, Macsween’s haggis, curried wild rice with mango chutney or homemade humus. The traditional can still plump for (free-range) egg mayo or even beans ‘n’ cheese, but so much thought has been put into the alternatives you can’t help but feel that would disappoint them.

• High point: Handy late-night opening, particularly during the festival
• Low point: Limited seating and a generously filled tattie = undignified eating