It's possible to book online at a lot of fine restaurants in Edinburgh using EdinburghMenus.com. We work with a number of different partners to ensure that you can book online at every restaurant that offers some sort of online booking option. Some of these restaurants use a sophisticated online reservation system that enables you to get immediate confirmation that you have reserved your table - when you book online using EdinburghMenus.com you are booking directly into the electronic system they sue in the restaurant to manage their bookings.

Online reservations for restaurant tables has a number of advantages for both the customer and the restaurant. You can book a table when it might not be convenient to make a phone call, you needn't worry that the person who takes your booking has written down your details correctly and you can always make a booking - even if the restaurant is closed or the staff are too busy to answer the phone!

Despite this, the vast majority of people continue to book tables over the phone. Fair enough, but in order to encourage people to try online booking, we've introduced an incentive scheme for a large number of restaurants in Edinburgh that offer online table booking. The restaurants that are participating in this offer can be identified by the "loyalty offer" badge on the listing page for each restaurant beside the link to book online. The restaurants are also all tagged "loyaltyoffer" so they can be easily searched for on the site.

The incentives for trying our online booking system are as follows:

• Complete 5 online bookings for at least 2 people and receive a £40 voucher to spend in a number of participating Edinburgh restaurants.
• Complete 12 online bookings for at least 2 people and receive a £300 personal shopping trip to Harvey Nichols and lunch for 2 in the Forth Floor restaurant.

These prizes are strictly while stocks last. There are 5 prizes of £40 vouchers and 1 star prize of the personal shopping trip to Harvey Nichols. To ensure fair play, we will check with each restaurant that every booking made has been completed and we will update this page when all the prizes have been claimed. To ensure we can attribute each online booking to you, make sure that when you make an online restaurant reservation you use the same email address as is associated with your EdinburghMenus.com account.

If you have any more questions about this offer, just go ahead and contact us!