I will be visiting several cities in Scotland and am looking for some good restaurants that are not too pricey. If you have any suggestions for Edinburgh, Inverness, Aberdeen or Glasgow, it would be greatly apprecitated!

This is just a suggestion, but you will generate more responses to this post if you include Scotland in your title. Unfortunately I haven't been (yet) so I can't offer any help.

ok, dunno about inverness or aberdeen but Glasgow & Edinburgh i can recommend places 2 eat. Edinburgh my fave place is Petit Paris, the grassmarket - old town. excellent food - v.french so if you want something scots i suggest blonde - good place 4 u 2 look is www.list.co.uk
th recommendations here are normally spot on.
As 4 Glasgow, this is where i live so i can personally recommend a lot of places!where will u b staying??(if u want recommendations just ask). The best restaurants in Glasgow are:
The Greek Golden Kebab, sinclair drive in langside. A family run restaurant, a step back in time, book cos it is v.small but the most friendly & authentic place ever!!you may need a taxi as it is on the south side but worth it! Also 1901 is on south side too & v.good, as is ichiban in city centre & arisaig too(v.scottish)

Hi
You can access the very reliable Hardens Good Food guide on line free of charge, and it doesn't jlist 'expensive' places. There's a mixture of all sorts and if you like the sound of them you can investigate further. This Guide is superb and has never let me down. To access go to www.waitrose.com
In the Search box type in Hardens
Then go to the Hardens UK restaurant guide and search by town/city.
M

What sort of food do you like ?

Here are some of my favourites places to eat in Edinburgh.

For Italian, La Partenope on Dalry Road is wonderful. The chef-proprietor & his food are Neapolitan & it's the best Italian food (especially seafood) I've had outside southern Italy. Unusually for an Italian restaurant, in the UK at any rate, even the desserts are home made & very good. They also have a very interesting list of southern Italian wines largely based on little known grape varieties. The ambience is very relaxed. Medium-priced.

La Garrigue on Jeffrey Street is a small French restaurant specialising in cooking of the Languedoc where the chef-proprietor is from, as are all the wines. The food & the chef are both lovely and the ambience is correct but relaxed. If you sit near the window there is a view of Calton Hill & its monuments. Medium-priced.

Both Black Bo's and David Bann's do very interesting & innovative vegetarian cusine. BB's is very casual, studenty even, & DB's is smart casual & v. modern . Both v. reasonably priced.

Centotre on George Street is a busy, buzzy Italian caffe-bar offering everything from a coffee to the full works. Particularly good pizza & pasta. Reasonable to medium-priced depending on what you have.

If you want 'modern Scottish', Stac Polly on Grindlay Street is good but fairly pricey.

When we have vistors we usually take them for Sunday lunch in Leith (the old docks area). There are lots of nice waterfront places, notably the Shore, where you can eat in the restaurant (non-smoking) or in the pub; the Waterfront and Skipper's. All of these are particularly good for fish but do other things too. I used to think Fisher's in Leith was the best for fish but had a very disappointing experience there recently : I haven't tried Fisher's in the City for some time so won't judge it.

I've never had good fish & chips in Edinburgh.

If you want recommendations for any other specific types of cuisine, please ask.

If did want to push the boat out one night, Martin Wishart's in Leith is one of the city's two Michelin-starred restaurants & is fantastic, especially if you have the six course tasting menu (which will all be cooked by the man himself) - but it is quite expensive.

I also like Le Petit Paris in the Grassmarket.

P.S. Glasgow is better for Indian restaurants. Mother India & the Wee Curry Shop on Buccleuch Street are two I've enjoyed recently. Fairly reasonably priced, especially the WCS which does an incredibly cheap set lunch.

You might find this website useful. http://www.taste-of-scotland.com/listings.html. It lists restaurants throughout Scotland and I have found it pretty good in the past.

LondonMike,
Is the site you quoted the "official" Taste of Scotland one? Last I heard, some excellent eateries were refusing to renew their subscriptions because of some inconsistent gradings from their inspections (one restaurant claimed to have been graded purely on the quality of their cold roast beef sandwiches). If Taste of Scotland lawyers are watching, don't sue, I accept things might have improved in the last year or so.

Oloroso in Edinburgh is great for eclectic meals but I don't know whether it falls into your not too pricey bracket (not sure how pricey is pricey). It's a great restaurant with a lovely terrace. I can also recommend the Borough Hotel in Edinburgh, Take a look in the Scotland section of my site for a few more bits and pieces.

www.mcdougalladventures.com/category/scotland

I have to say that I would not recommend Oloroso - and £130 for 2 (at least 2 years ago) in pricey by my definition !!