Places worth checking in to

There's a reason The Balmoral has anchored Princes Street for over a century. From the moment you step through those brass doors, the city's noise falls away and something altogether more considered takes its place. This is Edinburgh at its most assured — grand without being stiff, attentive without being fussy.

The Pig group has a formula, and it works: take a beautiful old house, fill it with mismatched furniture and interesting plants, build a kitchen garden, and let the food do the rest. Bridge Place is the newest addition, and it's settled in with the easy confidence of somewhere that's been there for decades.