3 Star Restaurant and Takeaway Reviews
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La Garrigue
31 Jeffrey Street, EH1 1DH, Edinburgh
from julieadair (28%) on March 27th, 2008 (6 months ago)
Lovely restaurant with friendly and efficient service. I loved the wine list which is very skewed to South West France - try the Picpoul, it's excellent!
The pot au feu was a little bland and disappointing but this won't prevent me coming back for another go!
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Amicus Apple
17 Frederick Street, EH2 2EY, Edinburgh
from davidm (16%) on March 25th, 2008 (6 months ago)
went to Amicus Apple for a birthday dinner a couple of months back now. Food was surprisingly good and the cocktails were something else. Jack Daniels and apple juice - strange but nice. The only let down and a big one and that was the service - 30 minutes for our starters and only 4 of the 6 arrived. Waitress disappeared for 15 minutes and eventually managed to flag her down, she made no apologies for the mistake and brought out the starter with the main courses. Not the best but I think I'd be prepared to give this place a second chance if only for the cocktails.
+ cocktail
- pretentious, service
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Taste Good
67-71 Slateford Road, EH11 1PR, Edinburgh
from julieadair (28%) on March 25th, 2008 (6 months ago)
I agree with Naomi. The subterranean dining area kind of puts you off eating in at this otherwise excellent restaurant. Food is great but I'd recommend takeaway/home delivery rather than making a night out of it.
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Sushiya
19 Dalry Road, EH11 2BQ, Edinburgh
from hungryhungryhippo (12%) on March 20th, 2008 (6 months ago)
It was a nice little place the visit. The sushi tasted fresh and atmosphere was pleasant. I've noticed since that it has become busier and the has a quite a funky and urban cliental these days.
My wife and I also ordered Raman - I lived off of various kinds in Japan and had to get a fix! The broth was OK (please note, the broth should be a great soup on it's own and not mearly a hot brine) and the veges were not Japanese at all. Overall, the taste was nice. I've had much worse.
Whilst this is probably the best Sushi I've tasted in the UK, it doesn't say much as I've not tried much in the UK, expecting the worst. Harsh? Maybe but if you enjoyed Sushiya (and they are quite OK) then you'd love to try the good stuff!!
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Daniel's Bistro
88 Commercial Street, EH6 6LX, Edinburgh
from julieadair (28%) on March 10th, 2008 (6 months ago)
I've had mixed experiences at this Leith Bistro. It's certainly not up to the extremely high standards Daniel set for himself in the much-missed Auberge in St Mary's Street. However, I'll loyally give it the benefit of the doubt and keep going back!
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Rainbow Arch
8-16 Morrison Street, EH3 8BJ, Edinburgh
from andy (100%) on March 4th, 2008 (7 months ago)
When my friend suggested we try eating here rather than at his or mine last night I immediately thought of the reports I read a couple of years back of the huge fine Rainbow Arch received from the council for poor hygeine. But then I figured that it probably now has excellent standards of kitchen hygeine as the council will be watching them more closely than ever and they definitely won't be wanting another £18k fine...
We had a decent meal. We had a bunch of dim sum dishes. Neither of us eat out in Chinese restaurants often and our waitress (the owner, perhaps) was very helpful and we just kept ordering dishes until she told us that that would be enough food. She got it pretty much spot on.
The chicken chow mein dish we had was a bit bland but everything else was really tasty. Can't really remember what they all were.
We paid about £32 for loads of food and a few cokes.
I probably won't go back as there are so many chinese restaurants to try and this didn't seem to be anything special.
But not a mouse dropping in sight. So that's got to be worth 3 stars.
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Rick Shaws
248 Causewayside, EH9 1UU, Edinburgh
from irishphat (80%) on March 3rd, 2008 (7 months ago)
We've had several takeaways from RickShaws. We've found it to be hit and miss. First couple were pretty good as we stuck to what we knew.
We tried branching out a bit on the menu after that and posibly it's us but we weren't really thrilled with what we got. We do want to give it a few more tries but so far I'm a bigger fan of Hung Lam in Newington or the small take away around the corner which does a smashing madras.
I'll update review later as I will give Rick shaws another go.
Verdict for now is that it is good value, decent food, quick to arrive, comes in cardboard containers, and the variety is nice if you can't agree on a style of food. good website too.
Hits: We had Ka re Ga and that was great
Hits: Thai Red Chicken Curry was also very good.
Medium - Crispy Chilli Shredded Beef
Miss: The lemon Chicken was pretty poor.
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Gourmet Burger Kitchen
137 George Street, EH2 4JY, Edinburgh
from Neill (18%) on February 26th, 2008 (7 months ago)
Went here last Saturday for a friends birthday.
To start with service was a bit strange, a waiter takes your drinks order and brings drinks to the table, but doesn't/won't take food orders. This has to be done at the counter/bar where you pay up front. I imagine this could be a right hassle if you were with a large party. Secondly our waiter that night spoke a very accented english hich made him a bit tricky to understand.
Burgers were ok, a little dry for my tastes, certainly not the best burger I've ever had. I had the cajon and the relish seemed to overpower everything else on the bun.
Chips were my main bugbear of the evening, I hate frozen chips! These were advertised on the menu as "Freshly Made" but to me they definitely seemed of the frozen variety. They were ok but not at £2.55 for a tiny bowl. On the plus side the blue cheese dip was excellent if a little expensive at £1.50 for an egg cups worth.
Probably won't be back in my search for the perfect burger.
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Channings
Channings Hotel, EH4 1EZ, Edinburgh
from Bryan (65%) on February 20th, 2008 (7 months ago)
Nice food, poor service.
We arrived early to take advantage of the cocktail bar and the enthusiastic waiter was more than keen to help. I ordered a Manhattan (perfect; straight up); my partner didn't know what to have but went with the waiter's recommendation of a Mojito. He came back 10 minutes later to say he had no Vermouth so no Manhattan and no mint so no Mojito. We had a raspberry thing instead as it was on the specials board so presumed they had the ingredients. It was quite nice.
We were taken through to the conservatory by another waiter who quickly realised we were completely freezing and found us another table next to the fire - good that.
I ordered the warm salad of squab with beetroot and a port sauce, followed by pheasant with wild mushroom risotto. My partner had duck and pistachio terrine followed by Sea Bream in (I think) a lemon sauce with tagliatelle. And a bottle of Cotes du Rhone and some sparkling water.
Neither the water or bread arrived before our starter and they were a little mean with the bread.
My squab was nice but they was a little too much going on and it was a bit too rich. The terrine was good but was a very small portion. It looked like it belonged on the tasting menu which they also offer (£48 per head without wine; £68 with wine).
My pheasant was excellent and the risotto cooked perfectly. The Sea Bream was dull and I think slightly overcooked. Both portions were a little small but generally I prefer that to being given too much.
For dessert I had the chocolate fondant with chilli ice-cream. The fondant was beautiful but the ice cream had clearly been sat on the plate waiting as it was half-melted away. The other dessert was a banana tarte tatin or something equally unlikely. It was quite nice though and bizarrely massive - easily the size of the starter and main combined.
Now to the service. We had the enthusiastic chap for almost all the evening and he did a number of things wrong. Too slow in some ways, too quick in others and completely incorrect in some of his decisions.
Too slow to bring our water, our bread and to clear our tables (it wasn't busy) our starter, main and dessert. Too fast to bring us the dessert menu. He also attempted to clear our table while holding a pile of teetering plates he just cleared from another table. Given that we had already seen him drop a pile that evening, this didn't fill us with confidence. he also spoke loudly with another diner cum pal of his about where he'd found 'the balls' to get engaged that weekend. I'm not a snob but if you're trying to do white tablecloth-fine-dining with tasting menus then you really don't want to be hearing that sort of thing. We skipped coffee as we hadn't seen him for about 15 minutes and went to the bar to pay.
The bill was £95 or would have been if they hadn't given us the cocktails gratis (or forgotten about them).
Decent food but certainly not a fine dining experience.
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Wedgwood
267 Canongate, EH8 8BQ, Edinburgh
from mary kearns (18%) on February 19th, 2008 (7 months ago)
Having read amazing things about this restaurant online my husband and I booked for Valentines Night as we were on a trip from Ireland to Edinburgh for the week-end. The booking was under the name of Greene - a friend who was good enough to book for me.
We were very disappointed to say the least. We were put downstairs in the very corner facing a wall so the ambiance and decor we expected was completely lost.
For 80 pounds sterling for start, main course and bottle of wine we thought it was overpriced. A very different experience to The Doric Tavern which I had not expected great things from. A similar meal with same bottle of wine was 60 pounds and food was gorgeous with table by the window.
Overall, a disappointing valentines night!
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