Edinburgh’s Kitchin nightmare

Kitchin

By Paul Thornton

SCOTLAND’S youngest Michelin-starred chef has forced a nearby bistro to change its name.

Tom Kitchin claims customers could become confused between his top-end restaurant The Kitchin and Len McCarthy’s Kitsch-in Coffee Bar Bistro.

Despite his restaurant serving up haute-cuisine compared to Mr McCarthy’s toasties and pies, Mr Kitchin instructed to lawyers to send formal letters insisting the new business changed its name.

Mr Kitchin – who appeared on this year’s Great British Menu – opened his high-end eatery three years ago at Commercial Quay in Leith, Edinburgh.

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