Eating in Edinburgh

nelbo_2

www.list.co.uk is a great place to source places to eat in Edinburgh and Glasgow. They'll let you do searches on, budget meals, child friendly, BYOB, late dining, highly recommended (hitlisted) places and so on.

If you want to check out deals give https://www.5pm .co.uk a try as well as that's where a lot of restaurants will offer special deals.

Hope that helps

Angua2

Hiyas, all. Just want to let you know we had a fab time for dinner at Le Marche Francais. The service was great, the place slightly quirky, the food super and the house wine a real bargain! The cuisine is southern French - Mediterranean style (olive oil & wine & spices, as opposed to butter & cream....) I've not eaten so much or so well in ages. Creme broulee was beautiful, with a touch of Grand Marnier and fresh orange zest... yum!! The manager/head waiter is charming and welcoming; the young waiter is adorably shy....you'll want to take him home in your pocket.

Le Marche Francais
9A West Maitland Street,
near Haymarket
Edinburgh
EH12 5DS

http://www.5pm.co.uk Special Offers

Special Offer 1
£8.50 per person for 2 courses on our pre theatre menu. £10.50 for 3 courses. Includes a cup of tea or coffee.
17:30 up to 19:00

Special Offer 2
£14.50 per person for 2 courses on our Evening menu. £17.50 for 3 courses. Includes a cup of tea or coffee.
19:00 up to 21:30

Angua2

Dine Around Edinburgh 2008

"Dine around Edinburgh returns on 7th January 2008! Dine around Edinburgh is back bigger and better than ever, with the promotion running for an additional three weeks in 2008, due to a hugely successful 2007 edition. Running from Monday 7th January to Friday 29th February 2008, 30 of Edinburgh's best restaurants will be offering tremendous value fixed price dining offers of 2 course lunches and dinners for £15. Participating restaurants will include Duck's at Le Marché Noir, Skippers, Haldanes and Daniel's Bistro. Further details and terms and conditions will follow shortly."

More HERE.

Bon appetit! Or do I mean mangia, mangia! ;-)

Tiggles_2

For Italian food you can't be La Rusticana in Cockburn Street, its been a while since I was in Edinburgh but last time I was there we went there. If you don't see your favorite on the menu speak to your waiter...they whipped up a great eggplant parmesian for my fiance and the canneloni was gorgeous.

The shop front is small and unassuming but once you get inside its a whole other thing, decoarted with scenes of Italy with authentic music playing, actualy Italian staff (In Bella Pasta in Edinburgh our waiter spoke with an accent when speaking to us but he was outside having a smoke when we left and he was a broad scotsman with as broad an accent).

There is also a great little sushi place that I could take you to but couldn't give you an address lol, it was so small and about a 20 minute walk from Princess Street, it was a really little place selling authentic sushi and my fiance said the hot sake was the best he had had (not my thing). Things in Edinburgh change so quickly alot of web sites are going to be out of date, we asked a man who worked in a shop to reccommend a good place to us and thats how we found La Rusticana. To know where to go, where the locals are happy to go and eat...ask a local, they are all happy to help and will give you better advice than most web sites.

peediedj

myself and the wife in edinburgh 2nd week in july for 5 nights,were gonig to try the buffalo grill,any other recommendations? we like indian,mexican,italian and chinese is ok,but iam not that keen on it,especially jimmy chungs i can go there anyday of the week

competitionscafe

peediedj wrote: »

myself and the wife in edinburgh 2nd week in july for 5 nights,were gonig to try the buffalo grill,any other recommendations? we like indian,mexican,italian and chinese is ok,but iam not that keen on it,especially jimmy chungs i can go there anyday of the week

For Italian try Bella Mbriana down the bottom of Broughton Street, have yet to find a good Mexican restaurant in Edinburgh - Tijuana Yacht Club on Hanover Street is now The Dogs (which is excellent and great value by the way, but not Mexican) and friends who went to the Mexican (Pancho Villas??) on Canongate/Royal Mile said it was awful, best Chinese is Chop Chop near Haymarket station, not had Indian for a while but there are some great restaurant recommendations here, including a couple of Indian places: http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=1251&post=982900

A friend recommends Kismot: http://edinburghmenus.com/directory/kismot_eh89qn/ - that site (Edinburgh Menus) is useful for reviews too: edinburghmenus.com

Little_Star_3

We are trying http://www.mariachi-restaurant.co.uk/ later this year...heard good things about it, but have never been before.

kiwicat

Been to the witchery. Very good but you need to book well in advance.
kiwicat

Mojisola

For a filling, good tasting, reasonably priced meal try the Mosque Kitchen.

scurr

Saigon Saigon - just off Princes St - the street that's almost opposite Waverley Bridge - absolutely amazing Chinese. Prob about 75% of the customers were Chinese, which says a lot