3 Star Restaurant and Takeaway Reviews

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Rainbow Arch

8-16 Morrison Street, EH3 8BJ, Edinburgh

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from andy (100%) on March 4th, 2008 (9 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 (77%) on March 3rd, 2008 (9 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 (16%) on February 26th, 2008 (9 months ago)

Went here last Saturday for a friend's 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.

The chips 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 cup's 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 (9 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 (17%) on February 19th, 2008 (9 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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Montpelier's

159-161 Bruntsfield Place, EH10 4DG, Edinburgh

from clarindavine (62%) on February 17th, 2008 (9 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 (91%) on February 4th, 2008 (10 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

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from andy (100%) on February 3rd, 2008 (10 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 (10 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 (25%) on January 29th, 2008 (10 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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