3 Star Restaurant and Takeaway Reviews
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Montpelier's
159-161 Bruntsfield Place, EH10 4DG, Edinburgh
from clarindavine (66%) on February 17th, 2008 (5 months ago)
We took friends here for lunch at the weekend after hearing good things about the place. It was pleasant but nothing special. The waiting staff were not great...telling us drinks that were listed on the menu were not available (when they were), having to return to ask what we wanted after not writing it down and then serving something different to what we had ordered. The food was fine, not great but not bad and comparably priced to other bars (£7-9 for lunch course) but all 3 of our meals varied from the menu description.
I would eat there again if I was hungry and happened to be in Bruntsfield but I wouldn't go out of my way to make a special visit there.
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The Voodoo Rooms
19a West Register Street, EH2 2AA, Edinburgh
from mdavidson (89%) on February 4th, 2008 (5 months ago)
I have to agree with Andy. I liked the design and ambience of the place but I was a bit disappointed with the menu - I had trouble picking what to eat as there was little that interested me. I ended up having a shrimp stack, which didn't really taste of anything. It was also more expensive than comparable venues.
I would go back to the Voodoo Rooms as it is a nice setting and the cocktails were pretty good but I don't think I would eat there again. They also had a pretty good DJ playing on the Sunday evening that I went.
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Panda Inn
36 Leven St, EH3 9LJ, Edinburgh
from andy (100%) on February 3rd, 2008 (5 months ago)
I ordered a Lemon Chicken and boiled rice from here last night. It was fine. Pretty tasty and loads of chicken but otherwise unremarkable.
I phoned to order and went to collect it. It was a Saturday night and there was not a person in the restaurant. The inside of the restaurant was pretty messy with random files and paperwork cluttering up the bar area where I paid.
Whatever - it didn't affect me - the food was fine, but not a great place to take someone for a meal if you want to impress them!
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Shanghai Chinese Restaurant
7-8 Cadzow Place, EH7 5SN, Edinburgh
from nettles (94%) on January 31st, 2008 (5 months ago)
That's right, I still have not had good Chinese food in this town. But, it was better than usual so I am writing this review.
We were in the area for a shop at Sainsburys nearby and since it's always good to go food shopping on a full stomach (or else you just buy everything in site) we stopped in. The service was ok but not helped by the confusion of English - but I took this as a good sign hoping that the people in the kitchen had not been in town long enough to change the food.
I ordered the special garlic monkfish and my partner had sweet and sour king prawn, like a true Scotsman (!). The monkfish was unfortunately coated in batter and deep fried so it was stringy but the sauce was lovely. Full of freshly fried garlic and whole dried chillis. Too hot for my husband but perfect for me. The sweet and sour king prawns were big and plentiful, beautifully fried with not too much batter. Of course it was topped with the ubiquitous flourescent sauce but that is to be predicted.
With our meal we ordered fried rice. Fried rice when done properly is a glorious dish even when the only additions are some onion and egg. Get a bowl of this from a street hawker on the other side of the globe and you dont need any overly sauced meat to eat on top. It's full of flavour and is a dish in and of itself. I am continuously dissappointed by the fried rice here. The grains are usually broken, the rice is hard and the dish is always brown. Why? I didn't take this into account in my stars but I think from now on it's boiled rice for me!
If you are in the area, this is an ok place to get some grub. The staff are friendly if a little challenged by the language and the prices are in tune with other Chinese joints.
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Henrick's
1 Barclay Place, EH10 4HW, Edinburgh
from yeahyeah (27%) on January 29th, 2008 (5 months ago)
This place is local to me and friends frequent it so I went along one day to meet a buddy who had arrived up from London. I would seek to find positives but the place was void of atmosphere, despite being around Christmas, smelled very strongly of cooking, despite there being only one eating customer and we were sat by the door area, and the coffee was appalling. Truly awful coffee. Service was friendly but it couldn't make up for the lack of love in the place.
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San Marco
10-11 Mary's Place, EH4 1JH, Edinburgh
from craig777 (64%) on January 22nd, 2008 (6 months ago)
For an Italian restaurant this is ok. The prices are reasonable and they do a pre-theatre dinner which is good value but I wouldn't overly recommend this to anyone when there are better Italians on offer further into town. It gets alot of local trade so people obviously like it and keep going but if you are looking for a good Italian I would try La Favourita, Valvona & Crolla or Vittorias further into town.
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Indian Cavalry Club
22 Coates Crescent, EH3 7AF, Edinburgh
from jwjlewis (75%) on January 18th, 2008 (6 months ago)
I went here on a Monday evening and it was relatively busy, so that should speak well of this restaurant.
I have long walked or driven past this restaurant and thought it looked nice. Finally I went with my girlfriend and auntie. We were greeted at the door and shown to our table in a courteous, if fairly non-communicative (verbally) way. After we had been chatting for quite a time the waiter came and offered poppadums, which are the same in every restaurant you go to - so no complaints there.
The menu has quite a large range of dishes, including dosa, for those fans of South Indian cuisine. For every main course there is a recommended side dish and accompanying wine - helpful if you like wine!
Our starters arrived and were very tasty. Having ordered the dosa I was surprised to discover that it was almost main course in size! Shortly after our empty starter plates were removed our main course arrived. We had prawn dansak, lamb karahi and Red Fort chicken, with a chick pea dish and gobi paneer as side orders. The main dishes were kept heated à la Chinese restaurant candle powered warming plates. The food was very tasty - although not quite up to Voujon or Khushi standard - and plentiful. We were struggling to finish and so we asked if they could put the food in takeaway tubs for us. Now it may not have a takeaway section, but in my opinion every restaurant should provide the option of taking anything you can't eat away with you. This not only means that you are not wasting food, but it is a massive compliment to the restaurant.
In this case, the response was lukewarm to say the least. "We don't have enough tubs for all the dishes sir, which ones would you like to keep (grumble, grumble)". When I said that I would like to take four of them away as we had finished the fifth I was again told there weren't enough tubs. So I politely asked them to double up on the tubs - that is hardly rocket science and wouldn't really have taken the waiter much thought to suggest this himself.
Dessert was kulfi and a rice pudding type dish, both of which were perfectly palatable.
My overall impression of this restaurant is that it wants to be a posh Indian restaurant. It has the right decor, excellent staff uniforms, the food is above average, but the price and the attitude of the staff are wrong. Our total (including a bottle of champagne) was £150. I'm not sure how much the champagne was, but this seems a little steep given the partial lack of civility on the part of the waiters.
Would I recommend this place? I'm not really sure, I would always say go to Voujon or Khushis first.
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The Voodoo Rooms
19a West Register Street, EH2 2AA, Edinburgh
from andy (100%) on January 6th, 2008 (6 months ago)
This bar opened tucked away above Cafe Royal at the east end of Princes Street not long before Christmas. We went for lunch on a Saturday in the new year. I'd heard good reports about it as a bar so was looking forward to trying it out for a bite of lunch.
The menu isn't really ideal for a quick, cheap lunch. It's a bit pricey. We both opted for the steak sandwich from the small sandwiches part of the main menu. It was about the cheapest thing at a tenner. There were a few side dishes at the back of the cocktails menu but not enough to constitute a meal.
The food was fine but certainly not exceptional. Nicely presented with the steak arriving between two pieces of toasted bread and packaged up like a parcel in string. The chunky potato wedges looked good but were a too big and a bit bland as a result. The green leaf salad was good though and had a nice honey dressing - no cheap coleslaw in sight.
To drink we asked for a free gin cocktail that we read about in a free magazine. It was vile.
The place certainly looks the part and I'm looking forward to going back in the evening sometime. But I'll give the food and cocktails a go and get myself a pint!
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Cameo Bar
23 Commercial Street, EH6 6JA, Edinburgh
from profeta77 (58%) on January 3rd, 2008 (6 months ago)
Just went to the place for a burger: chips where undercooked (to my taste), the meat with dry and the extra cheese was really really poor. That is all I had. Not impressed for £7!
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Khublai Khan's
43 Assembly Street, EH6 7BQ, Edinburgh
from profeta77 (58%) on December 21st, 2007 (7 months ago)
We went there for lunch - restaurant was empty. We had crocodile salad as a starter. Did not like it so much but is is my own taste maybe. They we had a kind of kangaroo chow mein. Nothing amasing for the tongue.
Waiter was really friendly.
The restaurant might be more interesting for dinner.
Portion sizes were correct.
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