We tried 'the chef' s special' several days ago.Great restaurant, my dad and my mum were satisfied with the dishes and services . The only drawback is that we had to wait for a long time to get the next dishes". read more

Went for an anniversary treat and was not disappointed! Service excellent and everything we tried with the chef's special was exquisite in taste, combinations, and well thought out. They even made tasty variations for my shellfish allergy! We were waited on by at least 5 servers and it was definitely a dining " experience" over 4 hours and never felt rushed! Would definitely recommend for a special occasion (or more frequently if you can afford it!!) read more

My first Michelin star experience and an experience it was! Simple and delicious cocktails for anyone smart and savvy enough to venture away from vodka based juice to libations of Calvados, Mezcal and of course, whisky. While primarily Scottish staffed, the service wasn't much to be spoken of yet the food was worth it's hype. Farm to table consciousness of purely Scottish product was impressive, especially when the mini map scrolls were brought over and served as reference to the origin of primary ingredients. Nose to tail lamb and signature beef were difficult to turn down and the sommelier provided the perfect red compliment to my flavorful entree. Absolutely worth the hefty ££ and the 8 week wait for a reservation. Bourdain was right to endorse Chef Kitchin and his star worthy cuisine. read more

Kitchin is an outstanding high end restaurant in Leith with well prepared regional dishes such as grouse, and local ingredients and cheeses, and an excellent wine list. read more

There are as of right now three items that stick out to me that have eaten as the most memorable three things. One was here at The Kitchin. My wife and I recently visited Edinburgh and this was the best meal we ate. Two start I had the bone marrow, I love bone marrow and would swim in it like Scrooge McDuck swims in money if I could, this marrow was much less traditional than the ones I have had in NYC. It had snails bacon and a quail egg on top, it was fantastic. For my main course I had mutton, the dish came with a small side of braised shoulder meat, it was fantastic, and I wish I was eating right now. The main part of the dish was very good too, just not as memorable. It is worth the schlep to leith to eat here for sure. read more

This was my first experience at a Michelin Star restaurant and my husband and I love food and have a great appreciation for execution, quality, presentation and service. From the moment we walked in until the moment we left, we were blown away by all of those things with each element of our evening. We did the alacarte dinner menu and they were very sensitive to my food allergy which allowed me to enjoy my entire meal with no worries. Every person was extremely attentive to our needs through the evening and they run a very smooth operation. Every bite of food was mouth watering with incredible flavors and presentation. It was definitely our most expensive meal of our trip but we also went into it knowing that and allowed ourselves to indulge. And we have absolutely no regrets in doing so. Highly recommend! read more

This place was Uber-posh but the staff were very welcoming and knowledgeable. The chef was more than happy to tweak the dishes to please the fussiest of diners. I can't afford to eat here on a weekly basis but if I could, I definately would. read more

Very friendly staff and delicious food. The lunch set menu is great value and the dishes included are those that I would choose from the A La Carte menu. Downsides were: - we were offered bread, which never arrived - we ordered the lunch wine menu but the staff forgot. We had to remind them after we had already started on our starter courses. They then asked us for ID having already served us cocktails. - we asked for 1 lamb dish to be cooked medium/rare but they cooked all of our dishes medium/rare. We ordered the same mains so any difference would have been evident had there been any. I don't think my experience lived up to expectation. read more

The Kitchin really is fantastic. The food is clever and delicious. The service is friendly an beyond attentive without being overbearing whatsoever. One particular thing that impressed me was their ability to work around my lactose intolerance for dessert. I have long since given up expectations to have dessert, but the pastry chef whipped up the most incredible sabayon with apples in consideration of my intolerance rather than just tell me it was too bad. I would go out of my way to recommend it to anyone who wanted a particularly Scottish bent to their haute-cuisine seafood, as I never have seen the selection of seafood available that I have seen there (including in other scottish restaurants). For example, the sweet delicious squat lobster meat. read more

This place is amazing. I always assumed the Michelin star system was just a gimmick. However, we tried the vegetarian and regular tasting menus here and they were perhaps the best meals we have ever had. Definitely recommend the tasting menus, although be prepared to spend about 2.5 hours. Service and ambience were great. It's a lot of food so go hungry. read more

This is currently one of the best restaurants in the UK. It has a great mix of professionalism and informality, and the food is excellent. There is an open plan kitchen, and a good relaxed feel to the place. The set price lunch is a bargain, but watch out for a glass of pudding wine, as that can cost as much as the rest of your meal if you aren't careful. read more

Actually love it - most amazing food I have ever put in my mouth - I have been for lunch and for the taster menu - although the taster menu is so fantasic I cannot even describe it the lunch is really good and extremely good value for money - love it! read more

Spectacular dinner at this accomplished place. Food is perfect - from presentation to execution , everything was spot on. Service is exceptional, wait staff is knowledgeable and friendly. Wine list is one of the finest I've seen - all regions are well represented with attention given to excellent vintages. These guys know what they are doing. I will definitely be back. read more

Outstanding food. Outstanding service Outstanding wine list. Sometimes its good to just go out and you know that you wont be disappointed. Price was around what you would pay at any high end restaurant but we are always willing to pay for outstanding food any day. Cannot wait for our return visit. read more

This restaurant has a reputation and boy is it deserved! Incredible modern Scottish cuisine.

We visited Scotland last summer, and I have to say the meal we had here at The Kitchin was one of the top 3 meals of my life so far. It was definitely a dining experience. I can't think of anything negative to say about the entire experience. The decor is beautiful, the staff go out of their way to make you feel welcome (you pretty much have a 'team' of people serving you throughout your meal). The steam halibut was to die for, and don't even get me started on the chocolate souffle. If/when we go back to Edinburgh this is absolutely on my to do list again. read more

Really not that great. Decor is fantastic to be sure but the meal was just ok. If you are charging high prices you have to deliver the goods. I started with the shellfish cannelloni and it was amazing. Then had the turbot which was slightly over cooked. For desert the ice cream sandwich, presentation great but flavor was a B. My companions had roe deer, very good, apple tart-ok, chocolate shuffle-too much egg white, halibut-overlooked. Overall B - rating. For the price you can do better. read more

Was so not impressed at the Kitchin, food mediocre and not a nice atmosphere. Seemed like people felt uncomfortable, no buzz about the place, too many staff standing about (dread to think how they can stay in profit as almost as many staff as customers!). My friend left their lamb and at over £21 for plate of veg, total rip off. You expect to have small portions in a fine dining restaurant but for the food to be really tasty and exceptional - at the Kitchin it most definitely did not fit into this category - would not recommend. The Witchery, Rhubarb at the Prestonfield or even Roti for fine dining, not the Kitchin and I can't understand why it has won so many awards. read more

wow wow wow wow. Went here with my dad last year. well it was a experience i will never forget my first michelin star experience. The food was lovely did the tasting menu. Tom came around at the end of the night and got a photo of me and him. A very pleasent guy considering i was alittle tipsy. Had a good chat and enjoyed the night. Thanks will be back again soon. read more

Pretentious, overpriced, dispiriting. You have been warned. We had a drink before dinner at the bar section, where the decor feels like a hotel from the 1990s when outsourcing design first started to take off. Anyway, first warning bells began when the waiter/barman screwed up his face when I said 'excuse me' and asked for some water to go with my beer. Beer of the restaurant's own label, which he had taken special pains to suggest, despite what I had asked for being quite different. The restaurant proper had a lot of wait staff buzzing around, all of whom were cold, insincere, and who would show no discretion in interrupting a conversation with my dining companion for things like placing a little paper 'map' on the table showing where some of the ingredients came from. Expect to get asked 'how is the meal?' in an fake, aggressive manner designed to make you say 'it's good' rather than any real desire to know what you think. All of this wouldn't be so bad if the food was excellent. Which it was most certainly not. The duck main was dry in parts, okay in others, and overall nowhere near what good duck should be. The entree was somewhat interesting, but not enough to justify what was being paid. The dessert was the most woeful, being not out of place in a 3 star hotel's diner. Gussying it up with some fancy flowers does not change the fact it's a bog-standard issuing of cream and jelly. If you ask for the lobster, you will pay an extra 15 pound over the 70 pound cost of the 3 basic courses (without wine). I am amazed at the positive reviews this place has garnered, but then, given how dedicated this place appears to be to self-promotion (the beer has the restaurateur's face on it, and you will not be facing each other over your meal, but placed at an angle facing the food), I am not too surprised. There are *much* better meals around, in much less pretentious environments. Especially for the price. read more

Decided to visit the restaurant The Kitchin in Leith/Edinburgh for lunch. When walking in to the sitting bar area and waiting to be placed at the table to have lunch,it is like waiting to enter A spaceship A ship that will take you to levels of fooddreams and fantastic design of each foodexperience placed on the plate. The fantastic design of each dish that rae served om the plate. It is like if Georgio Armani should design A suit and you could eat it. Tom Kitchin,the conductor in the kitchen and the pilot of the spaceship.He really knowe how to take care of the primary products and make something out of them. After have landed this gastronomic expeience I will remember this luncjourney for the rest of my life. Will also give A great thanks to the servent/staff they where really in to the orchestra. They made it with A smile and great service. Great thanks to the conductor and the spacepilot mr Tom Kitchin to the experience of "how to eat". Great thanks to all at The Kitchin. mr Kenneth Nordberg read more

What I kept saying about The Kitchin, which I found to be a pretty funny sentence, was "it was the worst michelin dinner I have ever had". Now, being a michelin star restaurant, the food was undeniabley tasty, fresh, and creative with the plating. They provide a small map showing where every ingredient is sourced, and it's all in scottland, which I found to be a lovely little quirk. However, I have definitely experienced better, and was pretty disappointed with the food. We did the surprise tasting menu, which right off the bat I highly recommend a la carte if you do go (unless you are super adventurous with food), because, although this is better than the portions being too small, they were much bigger than the average tasting menu size, leaving me beyond full by course 4, and I wasn't able to enjoy it as much. The presentation of the food never let me down, but it always seemed to look better than it tasted. The staff, though some were very friendly and engaged with us the way staff at a michelin restaurant should, other waiters that brought us the food were not even close to the standard which is usually held at these kinds of establishments. My mother received a plate missing not one, but two elements, to which a man who I think may have been the manager, was apologizing profusely and was really nice about it. This in itself wasn't a huge issue, mistakes happen, but with a michelin star, to have the chef AND the waiter miss something like that, isn't exactly normal. Also, for another dish, a woman put the plate down, rushed the explanation and dashed before we could ask any questions (and I had a few, because I didn't understand a word she said). I had mixed feelings because some of the staff I just honestly didn't get a welcoming feeling from, while some of the staff I found really helpful and accomadating. Overall, I retaliate my opening sentence saying although the food was good, it was not up to standard for me, which is why I gave it 3 stars. read more