As soon as Kelly Macdonald, 36, the voice of the Scottish princess Merida in Pixar and Disney’s new animated feature “Brave,” finishes filming a season of the HBO television series “Boardwalk Empire” in New York, she returns to her home city, Glasgow. There, she loves to scout out new restaurants and visit old haunts.
“All the pleasurable beige foods,” she said, “I get them out of my system the first week I’m home.”
Below are edited excerpts from a conversation with Ms. Macdonald about eating in Scotland.
Q: Where should visitors to Glasgow go for traditional Scottish food?

A: I love Two Fat Ladies at the Buttery, one of the oldest restaurants in Glasgow, with dark-wood paneling and tartan upholstery. The menu has all kinds of locally sourced fish like sea trout, sea bream, seared scallops. They do an amazing sole meunière.

I go to Cafezique for Scottish breakfast: sausage, bacon, eggs, baked beans with black pudding, which is basically blood with sausage (it’s delicious, but you don’t want to think about it too much). At chip shops, I love to get potato fritters. You put them in a Scottish morning roll, then add ketchup and butter; we don’t have the highest rate of heart disease in Europe for no reason....