MacKenzies

The restaurant is named after the famous Henry MacKenzie, an Edinburgh born lawyer and writer, who lived in the cottage adjacent to the restaurant. He is well known for his novel The Man of Feeling. Mackenzie, while editor of a short lived periodical lounger wrote an article in December issue 1786, praising ROBERT BURNS poems. This helpedto make Burns a well known name in literary circles. Burns himself regarded THE MAN OF FEELING as a book i prize next to the Bible.