https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/edinburgh-fringe-arthur-smith-richard-herring-bridget-christie-and-others-remember-their-finest-festival-moments-vbjmmnh7z
This is what was in the paper
Richard Herring
In 1988 I discovered the tiny
baked-potato shop Tempting Tattie at the top of Jeffrey Street. I would
always recommend it in interviews, but the owners never seemed to care.
In 2009 I took my audience to the shop to see if we could break it. I
arrived with 100 customers, who waited patiently for service, and the
owner sort of found it funny, but, like a true Edinburgh citizen during
the festival, was mainly angry he had to do all this extra work.
This is what I wrote:
I've been coming to the Fringe since 1987 and I think it was in my second year I discovered the tiny baked potato shop “The Tempting Tattie†at the top of Jeffrey St. It's huge and cheap potatoes kept me alive in the early days and it became a tradition to go back there at least once every year. I favoured the medium (huge) with orange Cheddar and Mango Chutney and hoped that one day that would be named “The Richard Herringâ€. Whenever a paper asked me for restaurant recommends over the next 25 years (as they did often) I would always say The Tempting Tattie, but the owners never seemed to know who I was. Eventually the grumpy but lovely owner realised who I was and said I could have free potatoes. It's probably the main benefit I have accrued from all my years in showbiz, but I felt self-conscious about taking him up on it.