Check out this quick bite of some of the culinary delights awaiting your clients in Edinburgh. And don’t forget to share with your clients to whet their appetites for fun foodie experiences.

Scotland’s national dish is haggis, a savoury meat pudding combining meat with oatmeal, onions, salt and spices. It’s traditionally served with neeps and tatties (that's Scots for turnips and potatoes). Haggis is traditionally cooked in a sheep's stomach (a historic way of preserving meat). It’s, of course, enjoyed with the national drink—whisky.

Other traditional dishes include Cranachan, a dessert with fresh raspberries, oats, cream and whisky. Scottish shortbread is world renowned, but there are other regional cakes and snacks that can be found across the country, including Aberdeenshire butteries, which is a type of bread roll, Dundee Cake and Cullen Skink—a deliciously creamy seafood soup.

A high-speed intercity train links Edinburgh with London, with departures approximately every 30 minutes for the journey, which is just over four hours from city center to city center. For those who prefer to keep their days open for sightseeing, the overnight Caledonian Sleeper train offers multiple options, including a cabin with reclining seats, a standard two-person sleeping cabin and first-class cabins. Train service is also frequent and fast from Edinburgh to other Scotland destinations, such as Glasgow (approximately 50 minutes), Inverness (typically three to four hours) and Aberdeen (approximately two and a half hours). The BritRail Pass is the most cost effective way to explore Britain by train and enables your client to use any train at any time within the chosen time period. For further inspiration on destinations to discover by rail, please click here.

Scotch and Scotland in a day, a full-day tour of the Edinburgh area sure to delight, is on the menu with Avanti Destinations in Scotland. Guests visit the pretty lochside village of Balmatha, enjoy a short cruise across shimmering Loch Lomond to visit the picturesque village of Luss and sample a fine selection of Scottish seafood, then tour and sample a wee dram of single malt whisky at the beautiful Glengoyne Distillery. This sampler tour is part of the 9-day Taste of British Classics, which also includes a tour and tasting at Pickering’s Gin in Edinburgh’s thriving arts venue Summerhall. The 13-day Flavors of Great Britain  also features Scotch and Scotland, along with a 3-hour Safari Walking Tour of Edinburgh, where guests graze their way along the eclectic Broughton Street, stopping at cafés, restaurants, bars and shops to sample such treats as Scottish gin in an underground tartan store, scones with jam and clotted cream, a wee dram of Scotch and more. Click here for more information about Avanti Destinations.