This was an incredible spread, the staff was knowledgeable and the flavours were unique and…read moresurprising while maintaining high-class flavour palettes . The potato gnocchi with artichoke, bacon, chestnut, and pickled walnut was a precocious dish that delighted. Would 10/10 come here again.

Excellence I can't say enough 5 stars food was amazing please try if you're in Glasgow!read more

I was staying in the area of La Casa on a recent trip and tried the restaurant. The food, wine,…read moreservice, and atmosphere were so nice that I returned for dinner a few nights later. The server was the same as my first trip and remembered me and was incredibly welcoming and friendly. The two meals here were among the highlights of my time in Edinburgh.

Do yourself a favor and don't skip this place. Honestly the best meal I've had in Europe so far…read more The atmosphere is loud but fun and inviting. Staff was great and whoever was working the grill knows it what they are doing. Overall great drinks great food and great people.

This is a Spanish/Tapas restaurant owned by the same family that used to run the renowned La Ducal…read morein Cowdenbeath. The high standards that made La Ducal so popular continue here. Just around the corner from the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum & the Dunfermline Glen Park, the restaurant is well located. With the park so close by, you can have a stroll either before or after dining, especially in the summertime. Dunfermline Abbey is also less than five minutes walk away. The restaurant itself is very welcoming with a very pleasant owning family and great waiting staff. The food is absolutely superb. I've just returned home from dining there this evening and four of us ordered the Paella portion for two, eight Tapas dishes plus drinks and desserts and it was an extremely tasty and satisfying meal. In true tapas style, we just shared everything. If you have a hankering for Spanish food, I can highly recommend this restaurant.

I was looking forward to Mango opening, this area has gone down hill in the past few years with a…read morepoor standard of food offerings that was getting pretty bad. I'm not sure on the opening times but when I do walk past there are no customers in view, maybe they are late eaters. Like the last place that was here it's too full on with bright colours, and they seen to have concentrated more on that than the style of food that they are trying to aim for. There is a menu deal on three tapas for £4.00, but that is only served during certain hours, I chose three items at £3.95 each Calamari, chicken wings & some potato dough ball things. With all, the items that l had I would have said that they where all bought in items and not home made, maybe it's because they are still looking for a chef. The food was ok, it was passable, I will try again at a later date.

Our planned restaurant fell through, and being down this end of Sauccihall Street is a new one for…read moreme. We wandered for a little and found this 'tapas' bar. With the Brazilian tunes enticing us, and the shabby south American decor I thought, why not give it a try? We were seated in a booth in the back area, which I was quite impressed with. The size of the place was unexpected. The waiter was...sweet. He couldn't handle many of our questions and kept referring to other staff members. Perhaps he was new. We ordered a selection of tapas and when our request for table bread was met with confusion we ordered bread and olives instead. The food didn't take long, which was a blessing as by this point we were starving. But we quickly realized perhaps why the food was so quick. I ordered, Brazilian cheese balls, Tempura prawns with an avocado and mango dip, plus some calamari rings with chilli mayo. The cheese balls were quite bready. They are balls of quite tough pastry and a tiny amount of cheese baked into that so the balls were empty. The tempura prawns were done in a sort of batter like you'd get on fish at a chippy, and curled up like won tons, with very little prawn inside. The Calamari rings were probably the best dish, yet even they were quite chewy. The bread! Even the bread and olives was off. The bread itself was fine, mediocre, but the olives. They only sent green ones which I was a little miffed about but could accept it. They weren't pitted! I nearly cracked a tooth on one nibbling into it. I wanted to try and have something good to eat to write about so I ordered some Churros and chocolate dip. What could go wrong? Crunchy churros that's what, crunchy churros. It wasn't okay. Overall just a really poor excuse for food. I realized after we'd ordered that it's probably aimed at students, but I still don't think that's an excuse for poor quality. They didn't end up charging us for the bread and olives, but at that point there wasn't much they could have done to soften my opinion. I've heard it's good for a drink on a night, and maybe thats so, the music was very funky. But avoid the food.

Are you going to get the best tapas in the world for the dirt cheap price of McDonald's food? No…read more Are you going to have some delicious tapas and lovely service that makes the price worth it? Yes. Came by on our first night in Edinburgh with my boyfriend because of some decent yelp reviews and we weren't disappointed. The host/server (manager? owner?) took the time to explain ALL of the dishes to us, including all of the specials. [sidenote, being from CA, and hearing Catalonian Spanish with a Scottish accent was such a trip.] He presented and explained all of the dishes table side like you expect in a fine dining restaurant, and brought some olives and bread on the house. We had the four specials, papas bravatos (I think) were my boyfriend's favorite, and the Sancho and Calamari were menu staples that were lovely. Everything we had was cooked perfectly to us, and all of the meats so tender. We washed it all down with a liter of sangria, which had cinnamon as a new twist for us. Great service, great food, no regrets!!!

Came here for a yelp girly lunch following Jenny's weekly newsletter on the best Spanish food in…read moreEdinburgh. My taste buds were a tingling. And tingled they were!! The tabla quijote platter of meat and cheese allowed us to taste every variety on offer. Some were nicer than others (I'm not a fan of blue cheese!) but it was a great sharing plate for anyone who loves cured meat and chorizo. I also ordered a tapas sized of small peppers with white asparagus and topped with an Andalusian sauce. Phallic looking as they were (haha!) I rather liked them. The dish was chilled, asparagus was soft (not crunchy how I normally like asparagus) but tasty nevertheless. The sauce was nice too and I'd order them again. For my main I ordered the Pork Cheeks stew which was recommended by jenny. I went for the medium side but boy it was big! watch out on the sizes if you're having starter tapas too! The stew was basically a big bowl of soup like stew. Not what I was expecting but extremely tasty. I've never had pork cheeks before but the meat was slow cooked and fell away from the fork. Yum! The only thing was the lack of "chunky homemade chips" as described in the menu. There were bits of potato in the stew but chips? Nope. Would I go back? Definitely. The food was authentic and tasty and its really near my work so v handy! It's small but cute with terracotta pots and plants dotted around inside. Quite quaint. If it wasn't for the garlic in the food it would be an ideal date venue! :)

Got to Fino early, a bit too early, the plan had been to grab a drink in a new bar "The Round" -…read morealso in the Rotunda - but typically I got to the new bar before it had actually opened for business. Doh! Anyway the Fino staff were quite happy for us to be there at 5pm so that was fine. The space is really unusual, it's the very top level of the rotunda and is a complete dome. Until last year it was a small casino, but I'd never been, casinos for me are just a way of extending a good night! The glass roof of the dome is covered by a rather rubbish mural of a starry sky, if it was down to me I would remove it so you could see the real, actual night sky, but maybe they're scared of customers seeing pigeon poo. That said the place feels really comfy and welcoming. It has a better whispering gallery than St Paul's though. The guy across the room from me sounded like God booming behind me every time he quietly whispered to his lady friend. Man, it took ages to get served, luckily we had a little appetizer of tasty olives, almonds, and bread with a yoghurt dip given to us when we came in. I have a habit of deliberately not catching the eye of slow -serving staff, just to see how long it will actually take them and how irritated I will get. It did take a while, but just as I was winding up to a sarky summoning one of them appeared. He appeared a bit confused that we hadn't even ordered a drink at this point. I asked to try the North 28 house lager before ordering a whole pint, a request that seemed to confuse him even further, but it was duly tried - it was ok - and ordered. The menu is interesting, with a different slant on some old tapas standards, as well as some very cheffie sounding options. We ordered Albóndigas (meatballs, but this time haggis and black pudding meatballs), Pimientos del piquillo rellenos de carne ( small red peppers filled with meat), Huevos con patatas y chistorra (which are chorizos with potatoes and a fried egg on top to you and me), Crujiente de ternera estofada con puré de boniato (a large beef filo parcel with a sweet potato mash), Gambas al ajillo con pasta brick y salsa romesco (garlic prawns in a filo cone) and Ensaladilla rusa (tuna salad with egg again). Before the food came a probably-Spanish waiter asked us if we knew how tapas worked, and how it could come at different times. We said yes and were immediately hit by the full whack of our order. I complained about the initial service in the review, but once they got moving they really got moving! It came so fast I really wonder how freshly it was prepared. The food itself was slightly underwhelming. My partner commented that the tuna salad was really bland, and the prawns were "nothing exciting". I thought my haggis and black pudding Albondigas were unusual but not quite herby enough, the sauce being rich, but really quite plain, and that pretty much goes for all the sauces. The "solids" were all well-cooked though, and fairly tasty. Particulary noteworthy were the beef filo parcel, I liked that and it was large, and the small chorizos were well-sourced, they were very tasty. All-in-all I would go back, its very early days, and maybe so it was a slightly average tasting for a Glasgow tapas bar, but the creative menu and comfortable surroundings push it easily into the threes. It could become very good.

Using a groupon voucher today £2.50 for a toastie and a hot chocolate…read more Really lovely place. There are seats to sit in too. The staff have been fantastic, I will certainly come back. I have seen this place on my walk to work, it is busy in the morning with business people getting take away coffee and breakfasts.

From the owner: We've created a treasure trove full of mouth-watering produce, both local and Continental…read more All the usual deli favourites are here, from gourmet sandwiches and tasty salad bowls to homemade cakes and treats. A new addition to StreetBar is our freshly prepared tapas menu - all bursting with that Mediterranean flavour.

My family and I celebrated Christmas Eve dining at the Bon Vivant. Pre-fixed special menu was…read moreamazing! Service top notch and nice ambiance (pub). You will have a nice time!

Ambiance - 10 stars. The vibe is dark, candle lit and cozy. Great spot for a date night and…read moreintimate chat over drinks. Some tables have curtains for extra privacy. Most of the food wasn't that great. But the truffle fries were to die for. The whipped sweet potato, grilled octopus, tortellini were not good. I would go back just for drinks and fries.

Mexican food in Scotland? So we were going to go to a nearby famous brewery. The vibes there were…read moreoff. It was empty, smelled weird, and we just couldn't stay for lunch. A couple doors down we saw Mexican and thought why not!?! As an American I had very low expectations, as I just couldn't fathom good Mexican in Scotland. But guess what, I was proven wrong!!! Everything was fresh, flavorful, and spicy! The queso wasn't the best but I'll give them a pass because my desert was maybe one of the best things I have eaten in my life! My dessert was horchata ice cream (that tasted like dulce de leche) and cinnamon sugar flour tortilla chips. We had a spa appt and couldn't stay, but I would have finished it all!!! Highly recommend if you are in Edinburgh and want something different.

I call this fancy gourmet gringo Mexican food. Doesn't mean it isn't good, just not authentic and…read moreI would not expect authentic Mexican in Scotland anyway. The service is ok. The ambiance is upbeat and good Spanish music. Fairly extensive menu of street tacos, enchiladas, burritos, tostadas, starters. Good variety of tequilas and margaritas. We shared between three of us: grilled prawn tostadas, roasted cauliflower street tacos, charred corn and refried bean quesadillas, chipotle roast vegetables quesadillas. Husband also ordered shredded honey pork tacos. Everything was very flavorful. Nothing spicy though. The Union Mezcal old fashioned margarita was good with mezcal tequila although a bit too sweet. The Tommy margaritas were even sweeter. Overall a very good dinner and I would recommend.

This restaurant is located in the lower level of the Scotch Whisky Experience building. It was the…read morevenue for the "Taste of Scotland" 3 course whisky pairing dinner we signed up for.   As far as the food, the 1st course was a trio medley of duck, trout, and vegetarian haggis.  I never really liked haggis, but this vegetarian version was pretty good I must say.  The 2nd course was a trio medley of venison, chicken, and hake filet.  The dessert course was a sticky toffee pudding.  Besides the two whiskies paired with dinner, we had a choice of a third non-whisky libation and I chose a nice Stewart's Holyrood Scottish pale ale.  The 1st whisky was a delectable Auchentochan Lowland 12 year old single malt to start our dinner.  The 2nd whisky was a delectable Edradour Highland 10 year old single malt which went with the pudding dessert.  The whisky connoisseurs here were informative and engaging, and the meal was tip-top fun and delicious, and particularly so if you're a whisky drinker.

We were part of a tour group that partook in the whiskey dinner experience…read more I recommend it. I am not a whiskey fan at all. But hearing a descent rundown on it handmade me less ignorant. Our meal was a 3 course small plate gourmet English supper. It was a cold patty. If duck/beef My only complaint. It was tasty. Sea trout. Excellent.