Restaurants in Edinburgh
Aug 11th 2004, 10:25 am
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Restaurants in Edinburgh
I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
recommendations for nice places to eat. I want to treat my sister who
will be with me to one special meal for her 50th birthday. Any help
will be very much appreciated.
Thanks
recommendations for nice places to eat. I want to treat my sister who
will be with me to one special meal for her 50th birthday. Any help
will be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Aug 11th 2004, 10:35 am
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
"Ciog54" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
> recommendations for nice places to eat. I want to treat my sister who
> will be with me to one special meal for her 50th birthday. Any help
> will be very much appreciated.
> Thanks
One of the best restaurants we've eaten in the Edinburgh area was
Prestonfield House. There were cows grazing in the yard. Service and food
were exemplary. Heartily recommended.
Bob Rann
California
news:[email protected] m...
> I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
> recommendations for nice places to eat. I want to treat my sister who
> will be with me to one special meal for her 50th birthday. Any help
> will be very much appreciated.
> Thanks
One of the best restaurants we've eaten in the Edinburgh area was
Prestonfield House. There were cows grazing in the yard. Service and food
were exemplary. Heartily recommended.
Bob Rann
California
Aug 11th 2004, 1:11 pm
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
One of the most famous restaurants is The Witchery, just next to the castle at
the top of the hill. Another one I really enjoyed was Dub Prais. Try the duck.
the top of the hill. Another one I really enjoyed was Dub Prais. Try the duck.
Aug 11th 2004, 2:12 pm
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
> I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
> recommendations for nice places to eat. I want to treat my sister who
> will be with me to one special meal for her 50th birthday. Any help
> will be very much appreciated.
They change quite fast as chefs move around. Joanna Blythman's
reviews in the Sunday Herald will give you a better idea than the
guidebooks.
Sweet Melinda's (Marchmont) has been consistently highly-rated for
many years and has the same personnel as it started with. Same goes
for Tinelli's in Easter Road. The new Jamaican place near George
Square looks interesting and has had good reviews but I haven't been
to it yet.
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> recommendations for nice places to eat. I want to treat my sister who
> will be with me to one special meal for her 50th birthday. Any help
> will be very much appreciated.
They change quite fast as chefs move around. Joanna Blythman's
reviews in the Sunday Herald will give you a better idea than the
guidebooks.
Sweet Melinda's (Marchmont) has been consistently highly-rated for
many years and has the same personnel as it started with. Same goes
for Tinelli's in Easter Road. The new Jamaican place near George
Square looks interesting and has had good reviews but I haven't been
to it yet.
========> Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce <========
Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html> food intolerance data & recipes,
Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music.
Aug 11th 2004, 11:42 pm
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
"Ciog54" wrote
| I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would
| love some recommendations for nice places to eat. I want
| to treat my sister who will be with me to one special
| meal for her 50th birthday.
If Gothic splendour is appropriate, The Witchery
http://www.thewitchery.com/home.html
Reservations probably essential, especially during the Tattoo.
A review at
http://www.edinburgharchitecture.co...._edinburgh.htm
The owner also operates The Tower at the Museum of Scotland.
http://www.tower-restaurant.com/reserve.html
Owain
| I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would
| love some recommendations for nice places to eat. I want
| to treat my sister who will be with me to one special
| meal for her 50th birthday.
If Gothic splendour is appropriate, The Witchery
http://www.thewitchery.com/home.html
Reservations probably essential, especially during the Tattoo.
A review at
http://www.edinburgharchitecture.co...._edinburgh.htm
The owner also operates The Tower at the Museum of Scotland.
http://www.tower-restaurant.com/reserve.html
Owain
Aug 12th 2004, 2:27 am
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
[email protected] (Ciog54) wrote in message news:<[email protected] om>...
> I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
> recommendations for nice places to eat. I want to treat my sister who
> will be with me to one special meal for her 50th birthday. Any help
> will be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
Stac Polly beside Usher Hall (Grinwald Street ?) Scottish restaurant, very good.
> I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
> recommendations for nice places to eat. I want to treat my sister who
> will be with me to one special meal for her 50th birthday. Any help
> will be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
Stac Polly beside Usher Hall (Grinwald Street ?) Scottish restaurant, very good.
Aug 12th 2004, 7:29 am
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>> I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
>> recommendations for nice places to eat.
> Stac Polly beside Usher Hall (Grinwald Street ?) Scottish restaurant,
> very good.
It was when it opened. By all accounts it's pretty dire now,
coasting steadily downhill on its reputation.
Howie's is the best of the "Scottish" restaurants in Edinburgh
at the moment.
The most colourfully atmospheric has to be "The Monastery of Lake
Van in Retreat" (a former women's prison near Holyrood converted
into an Armenian restaurant) but he only does party-sized bookings,
you can't just turn up. (If he's still doing it, that is; I don't
know anyone who's been recently). The building looks derelict from
outside; it's windowless apart from skylights; the decor is heavy
dark chintz curtains and big gloomy monochrome pictures of famous
Armenians with big noses who all look the same. There is no menu,
you eat what he feels like cooking that day (several zillion courses).
Dancing is compulsory, Armenian/Turkish dances in 7/4 or 9/4 which
he shows you how to do (unsuccessfully in my case). I think it's
the most all-round eccentric restaurant I've ever been to anywhere.
========> Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce <========
Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
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>> recommendations for nice places to eat.
> Stac Polly beside Usher Hall (Grinwald Street ?) Scottish restaurant,
> very good.
It was when it opened. By all accounts it's pretty dire now,
coasting steadily downhill on its reputation.
Howie's is the best of the "Scottish" restaurants in Edinburgh
at the moment.
The most colourfully atmospheric has to be "The Monastery of Lake
Van in Retreat" (a former women's prison near Holyrood converted
into an Armenian restaurant) but he only does party-sized bookings,
you can't just turn up. (If he's still doing it, that is; I don't
know anyone who's been recently). The building looks derelict from
outside; it's windowless apart from skylights; the decor is heavy
dark chintz curtains and big gloomy monochrome pictures of famous
Armenians with big noses who all look the same. There is no menu,
you eat what he feels like cooking that day (several zillion courses).
Dancing is compulsory, Armenian/Turkish dances in 7/4 or 9/4 which
he shows you how to do (unsuccessfully in my case). I think it's
the most all-round eccentric restaurant I've ever been to anywhere.
========> Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce <========
Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
<http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html> food intolerance data & recipes,
Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music.
Aug 12th 2004, 9:50 pm
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
[email protected] (bogus address) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> >> I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
> >> recommendations for nice places to eat.
> > Stac Polly beside Usher Hall (Grinwald Street ?) Scottish restaurant,
> > very good.
>
> It was when it opened. By all accounts it's pretty dire now,
> coasting steadily downhill on its reputation.
That's a pity, I had someone memorable times there a few years ago.
>
> Howie's is the best of the "Scottish" restaurants in Edinburgh
> at the moment.
>
> The most colourfully atmospheric has to be "The Monastery of Lake
> Van in Retreat" (a former women's prison near Holyrood converted
> into an Armenian restaurant) but he only does party-sized bookings,
> you can't just turn up. (If he's still doing it, that is; I don't
> know anyone who's been recently). The building looks derelict from
> outside; it's windowless apart from skylights; the decor is heavy
> dark chintz curtains and big gloomy monochrome pictures of famous
> Armenians with big noses who all look the same. There is no menu,
> you eat what he feels like cooking that day (several zillion courses).
> Dancing is compulsory, Armenian/Turkish dances in 7/4 or 9/4 which
> he shows you how to do (unsuccessfully in my case). I think it's
> the most all-round eccentric restaurant I've ever been to anywhere.
>
> ========> Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce <========
> Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
> <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html> food intolerance data & recipes,
> Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music.
> >> I am travelling to Edinburgh in early September. Would love some
> >> recommendations for nice places to eat.
> > Stac Polly beside Usher Hall (Grinwald Street ?) Scottish restaurant,
> > very good.
>
> It was when it opened. By all accounts it's pretty dire now,
> coasting steadily downhill on its reputation.
That's a pity, I had someone memorable times there a few years ago.
>
> Howie's is the best of the "Scottish" restaurants in Edinburgh
> at the moment.
>
> The most colourfully atmospheric has to be "The Monastery of Lake
> Van in Retreat" (a former women's prison near Holyrood converted
> into an Armenian restaurant) but he only does party-sized bookings,
> you can't just turn up. (If he's still doing it, that is; I don't
> know anyone who's been recently). The building looks derelict from
> outside; it's windowless apart from skylights; the decor is heavy
> dark chintz curtains and big gloomy monochrome pictures of famous
> Armenians with big noses who all look the same. There is no menu,
> you eat what he feels like cooking that day (several zillion courses).
> Dancing is compulsory, Armenian/Turkish dances in 7/4 or 9/4 which
> he shows you how to do (unsuccessfully in my case). I think it's
> the most all-round eccentric restaurant I've ever been to anywhere.
>
> ========> Email to "j-c" at this site; email to "bogus" will bounce <========
> Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760
> <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html> food intolerance data & recipes,
> Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music.
Aug 14th 2004, 4:17 am
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
On 11 Aug 2004 18:35:37 EDT, "Bob Rann" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>One of the best restaurants we've eaten in the Edinburgh area was
>Prestonfield House. There were cows grazing in the yard. Service and food
>were exemplary. Heartily recommended.
Perfectly correct but very expensive. Most restaurants in central
Edinburgh are expensive but Prestonfield (out of centre) is
ultra-expensive!
Phil
wrote:
>One of the best restaurants we've eaten in the Edinburgh area was
>Prestonfield House. There were cows grazing in the yard. Service and food
>were exemplary. Heartily recommended.
Perfectly correct but very expensive. Most restaurants in central
Edinburgh are expensive but Prestonfield (out of centre) is
ultra-expensive!
Phil
Aug 14th 2004, 4:17 am
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
On 12 Aug 2004 01:11:42 GMT, [email protected]ntiSpam (Aviday Ogelvay)
wrote:
>One of the most famous restaurants is The Witchery, just next to the castle at
>the top of the hill.
Not been there but *all* reports are very complimentary.
Phil
wrote:
>One of the most famous restaurants is The Witchery, just next to the castle at
>the top of the hill.
Not been there but *all* reports are very complimentary.
Phil
Aug 15th 2004, 11:07 pm
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Re: Restaurants in Edinburgh
non-smoking restaurants in Edinburgh
http://www.smokefreeworld.com/scotland.shtml#ed
http://www.smokefreeworld.com/scotland.shtml#ed
