As soon as Kelly Macdonald, 36, the voice of the Scottish princess Merida in the animated feature "Brave," finishes filming a season of TV's "Boardwalk Empire," 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."

Here is an edited chat with her 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 meuniere.

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.

You can't leave Scotland without trying haggis, and a very good place to do that is the Ubiquitous Chip. Their version is with venison, an offal of minced esophagus, heart, lungs and liver, simmered with onions, allspice and thyme.