Stovies appears as a signature dish in 1 United Kingdom cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Stovies · Edinburgh
Leftover roast meat slow-cooked with potatoes, onion and stock until everything collapses together. A Sunday-roast next-day plate from Edinburgh's working kitchens.
Stovies began as a Sunday-roast leftover in nineteenth-century Edinburgh tenement kitchens, where the cold roast meat got reheated in dripping with onion and potato through Monday lunch. The dish carries no fixed recipe; family arguments over corned beef versus lamb and whether to add carrots are the working tradition. Burns Night suppers still serve stovies as the next-morning hangover plate, and Edinburgh pubs run it as the Sunday-evening special when the kitchen needs to clear down Monday's prep.
Where to eat in Edinburgh:
- The Scran and Scallie
- Howies
- The Dome
- The Caley Picture House