Cucina diVincenzo

Vince Margiotta opened Cucina di Vincenzo on Woolton Road in December 2016, after years as managing partner at Il Forno on Duke Street. His family's food history runs back to 1904, when his grandfather Francesco Margiotta emigrated from Italy to Edinburgh and opened a café in Cramond; his mother's side later helped found Valvona & Crolla, one of Scotland's first Italian delicatessens. The Childwall dining room seats up to eighty across two floors, built around an open kitchen, a chef's table and an antipasti bench, with fresh pasta and fish as the daily draw alongside a rotating list of specials. Margiotta now runs the restaurant with his children, and his daughter Gabriella, a MasterChef: The Professionals semi-finalist, heads the kitchen next door at Vivi, the family's newer small-plates venture on the same block.