Edinburgh
Liverpool
Fruitmarket Gallery Café
£15
(45
Market Street, EH1,
tel: 0131 226 1843
)
This gallery-café makes for a convenient
daytime rendezvous. The lunchtime soups and sharing
platters are delicious, and there’s a wonderfully indulgent
selection of cakes.
Fishers in the City
£40
(
58
Thistle
Street, EH2, tel: 0131 225 5109
)
The fish pie at this much-
loved New Town restaurant is comfort-food heaven, but
the real treat is the selection of unfussy, seasonal dishes
full of exciting flavours and twists.
The Bongo Club
(
66
Cowgate, EH1, tel: 0131 558 7604
)
Freshly relocated to the vaults under the Central Library,
this alternative club and live-music venue is a rejuvenated
being. The weekend club tends to focus on big beats, but
anything mainstream is as likely.
The national tour of emotion-tugging
Ghost the
Musical
arrives at the Edinburgh Playhouse on the 14 May
for a three-week run. Rebecca Trehearn plays the bereaved
Molly with Wendy Mae Brown as psychic Oda Mae Brown.
edinburgh-playhouse.co.uk
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The Piazza Café
£15
(
Metropolitan Cathedral, Mount
Pleasant, L3, tel: 0151 709 9222
)
Try
scouse
(
traditional
Liverpool meat stew) or cake from this excellent bakery-
café, while enjoying a view of one the world’s more unusual
cathedrals.
Puschka
£50
(
16
Rodney Street, L1, tel: 0151
708 8698
)
Amid handsome Georgian terraces, Puschka
draws a large and loyal clientele for its high-quality
British and European food in comfortable, bohemian
surroundings. Highlights include sea trout with langoustine
bisque, and a crab and chervil potato cake.
The Globe
(
17
Cases Street, L1, tel: 0151 707 0067
)
For an
old-fashioned Liverpool pub experience, try this tiny treasure.
Famous for its sloping floor and friendly welcome, it also
supplies beers from the brewery round the corner.
Alton Towers
theme park is a 90-minute drive from
Liverpool. With new rollercoaster – The Smiler – joining the
line-up of 50 rides and attractions this month, thrillseekers will
have plenty to scream about.
altontowers.com
gerry corner
Street performers are a
regular sight – and sound –
in Edinburgh’s city centre
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