Leith: home to the highest concentration of Michelin-starred restaurants per square metre outside of London. Foodie capital of Scotland. Location of the only vertical whisky distillery in the UK. Shining example of every hipster cliché taken to its ultimate conclusion. And home to … me.
You could say Leith is a litmus test of the latest food trends. What’s hot here is what’s soon to be hot everywhere. Which brings me to Mexican food, which is as much all over Leith as its sea of Labour and SNP posters. There are the cantinas Bodega and Chorrito on Leith Walk. Guisados, which started as a pop-up taqueria, has become a permanent fixture at the Bullfinch pub. Closer to the Shore, an agaveria (basically a tequila and
