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Jimmy Chung's
30a Grindlay St, EH3 9AP, Edinburgh
from digitalspaghetti (23%) on August 22nd, 2007 (1 year ago)
When you dine here - expect it to be VERY busy! Since this place opened, I have never seen it less than half full, even on a lunch menu. This means the buffet is always hot and fresh - and the quality for the food is also very nice.
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Pancho Villas
240 Canongate, EH8 8AB, Edinburgh
from digitalspaghetti (23%) on August 22nd, 2007 (1 year ago)
This is one of my favorite restaurants in Edinburgh. The service is great, the decor is eye pleasing and the menu has lots of nice choices. They have your normal choices from Jalapeño Peppers to Fajitas, but have some interesting choices on the menu such as Chicken and Chocolate.
Their choice of cocktails is also very nice - best Margarita I've tasted in Edinburgh!
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The Basement
10a-12a Broughton Street, EH1 3RH, Edinburgh
from digitalspaghetti (23%) on August 22nd, 2007 (1 year ago)
I am a regular visitor to The Basement and always take visitors to it because of its excellent food at fantastic prices. The menu has been the same for a while, but the quality and portion of the food is excellent and cheap! They also have an excellent selection of Beers on tap. The Rump and Merlot pie is a great signature dish and the Banoffee pie is to die for. The staff are really friendly too.
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Vittoria
19 George IV Bridge, EH1 1EE, Edinburgh
from andy (100%) on August 22nd, 2007 (1 year ago)
I'd been looking forward to visiting here since I noticed it open a couple of months ago. I've heard lots of good things about the Vittoria on Leith Walk, but have never visited as it's on the other side of town.
This is the second time an Italian restaurant has been attempted in this location - Tuscany that opened in September 2005, I think, lasted less than a year. The steak restuarant Green Door followed and proved even less successful. I had eaten in both - Tuscany was fine, nothing special. I suspect that opening just after the festival had finished did them no favours - they probably could have done with the festival gold rush to see them through the year! Green Door was actually really good - the steaks were excellent. But it was never busy - I guess people don't want to pay £20 for a main course very often.
But surely an Italian restaurant can do well here? There is an absolute dearth of DECENT Italian restaurants on the south side. There are some average ones on South Bridge/Nicolson Street serving the Festival Theatre masses, some touristy ones on the mile (though I've heard that Rocco is actually very good) and the frightfully bad Sardi's on Forrest Road.
So I really wanted Vittoria to be good. Things weren't looking promising when we turned up for our 7.30 booking at 7.35 and had to wait for our table. But we only waited a couple of minutes. This is mid-festival and the restaurant was jam-packed, so this is definitely forgivable.
From then on, everything was excellent. Despite the staff being run off their feet, the service was great, with the staff even finding time to keep our wine glasses filled. We has mixed garlic breads to start, followed by pizzas and coffee. The food was excellent. Pizzas were just right - nice crispy bases, not too oily, generous toppings. With a bottle of wine the bill came in under £40.
Overall, a very welcome addition to George IV Bridge. Let's hope the business survives longer than the previous 2 occupants did - going by my experience, I'm sure it will.
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Izzi
119 Lothian Road, EH3 9AN, Edinburgh
from nettles (94%) on August 21st, 2007 (1 year ago)
I agree with Meng, a good place to go for your first sushi experience as there are cooked choices if you chicken out.
The half chinese half japanese menu was typical of other places I have been (outside of Scotland) and has a selection that is not overwhelming. What I don't understand is why a restaurant that serves Japanese food would even bother also serving Chinese when there are so many other Chinese restaurants in Edinburgh? I guess for the people that really dont want to try anything they dont know. But if you havent had sushi before I highly recommend giving it a try, here or anywhere.
My husband and I stuck to the Japenese food. We shared a sushi platter and the beef and mushroom roll teppanyaki. The sushi was ok, fresh, but the choices were nothing out of the ordinary. The typical egg, tuna, clam, shrimp, salmon, etc pieces. The two pieces of roll reminded me of sushi rolls I had in Taipei as they contained pork floss - a tasty slightly sweet and dry pork stuff that i miss so much!
The beef and mushroom roll was served with boiled rice and a nice sauce. The beef was sliced impossibly thin and amongst the rolls were equally thin slices of mushroom. Very well flavoured and cooked nice.
The atmosphere was busy but friendly and the decor decidedly Japanese. A great choice if you are going to catch a movie after - a theatre is just across the street.
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Golf Tavern
30-31 Wright's Houses, EH10 4HR, Edinburgh
from Stewart C (17%) on August 21st, 2007 (1 year ago)
This is a geat pub for sitting all day, with plenty sport on wide screen TVs it's a winner for a Sunday session. Food's not bad too.
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The Raj on The Shore
87-91a Henderson Street, EH6 6ED, Edinburgh
from Mystic (33%) on August 20th, 2007 (1 year ago)
Went here with my partners parents & some of their friends & family.
The menu looked quite pricey as I flicked through it but their was an offer; £10.50 for 2 meals & a glass of beer. Their dishes seem a little spicier than most places so keep that in mind when your ordering. I tried to play it safe with the Chicken Madras (medium spicy) .... 2 pints of beer, a glass of water & a whole naan bread later i was finished and sufficiently knackered! Enjoyed every bite though!
The food & service was great & the waiting staff were happy to entertain our hyper active, 6 year old, Liverpudlian cousin, who was more interested in touching all of the decor, than eating her food.
Will definitely be eating here again!
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The Steading
118-120 Biggar Road, EH10 7DU, Edinburgh
from mdavidson (91%) on August 20th, 2007 (1 year ago)
Excellent pub grub and a good place to stop off if you have just been to Hillend ski slope and subsequently need warmed up. Also, for some reason, the pints of Tennents here taste better than anywhere else in Edinburgh.
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Khushi's
9 Victoria Street, EH1 2HE, Edinburgh
from mdavidson (91%) on August 20th, 2007 (1 year ago)
I have been to Khushis a number of times now and it has never failed to deliver. Everything I have eaten here has tasted absolutely amazing. I was only there on Friday evening but want to go back there now (Monday).
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Browns
131-133 George Street, EH2 4JS, Edinburgh
from mdavidson (91%) on August 20th, 2007 (1 year ago)
Not a bad place to eat out in the centre of town - the food is good quality though with the huge scale of the dining area it is never going to be spectacular. The staff are friendly and more competent than you might encounter elsewhere on George Street.
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