The best restaurants serving British food in Edinburgh and Lothian

service and food as always 100%

Pepperoni pizza last night, gave me the shits all day today, I will not be back...

I decided to have dinner at the hotel because I arrived tired and it was a pleasant surprise! I was very well attended to and the food was excellent, at a very good price! I had a starter of breaded mushrooms that were perfect and a main course of a steak that was perfectly cooked with peas and fries that were also perfectly cooked. There are good options for beer, beer and wine. Excellent service and cuisine!

Just awful and pretentious. They abuse their staff by giving them no cafeteria they just rest on the tiny stairs. I have autism and did my best on a trial run but the "guy" in charge didn't give me a chance. I hear he has a bad reputation though

Chaos since table-service disappeared, and massively over-priced. Notices boast of sandwich ingredients grown in the garden, yet the very ordinary sandwiches cost £8.50 each. A simple dish of hummus - a laughable £12.50. The queue bottle-necks from the start at the cold-counter with no visibility of the hot-counter. There is a curious gap between the hot counter and coffee/cakes counter, where customers struggle to balance trays of food, or watch others rightly skip the queue via the gap because they only want coffee/cakes. The toilets are airless, disgusting and too limited for the number of diners.

I visited the restaurant just after 6pm. It was fairly quiet with it being a Monday. I was waiting for 5 minutes before a member of staff acknowledged me despite them having seen me they were too busy to chat. When I eventually got my table, I went to get the meat and was waiting another 6 minutes as there were no staff at the counter. When I eventually got dinner, I was given the 4 smallest pieces of meat and everything was barely warm (including the sides and gravy). I’m not sure if the hot plates had been turned off in error. Nobody even asked how my meal was. I would not go back.

The New chefs Very good and fast

The sandwich or panini was very tasty. Simple but just right for a quick snack. Friendly and attentive service. Since there were no other guests on site apart from us, things went very quickly. If you don't expect star cuisine, we can highly recommend it.

Visitamos el domingo por la noche, no necesita reservar, era bastante tranquilo. Informado de las ofertas especiales, buena selección de comida en el menú menú infantil. Pan de Ajo para los niños, pedimos salchichas con puré de patatas y hamburguesa y n fichas del menú de niños, la gran hamburguesa/patatas fritas, el jalapeño queso se derrita y el pollo fajita hamburguesa, pinta de cerveza fría, vino de la casa de cristal y refrescos para los niños. Y Chic brownie tarta fudge y helado para el postre.

The blacksmith forge is now closed Lidl who owned the lease terminated agreement with Witherspoon Lidl have expanded into what was the blacksmith forge leaving a much smaller area available for lease This has been taken up by a bar/ restaurant called Madison's

Decent little pub on the banks of the Forth and Newhaven Harbour. The pub does simple pub grub for a decent price. If the weather is nice you can sit out and have a beer looking across the harbour. For parents with young kids, there is a large soft play area so you can get a little peace and quiet.

A table of four, we each had a large traditional Scottish breakfast. Service from Mandy was excellent (well done Mandy) and food was first rate, all served on nicely warmed plates. We appreciated the efficient speed of service also. Well worth the visit for a nice breakfast

Lovely meal and friendly staff the pool room was a bonus will certainly be back lovely fire keeping the bar area warm lovely menu with a wide variety to choose from

This place goes from bad to worse. Service is at snails pace - the staff clearly wish they were somewhere ( anywhere) else. No urgency, no smiles - just awful. If any of these staff worked in any stand alone coffee shop they would be dismissed. If this coffee shop wasn’t attached to a garden centre it would have closed by now. All that said all the faults are entirely down to the local management. There is clearly inadequate training and inadequate supervision leading to what looks like a totally cheesed off work force. Just awful.

Very unhappy with dinner, dried out and none left. The seating were either ripped or had stains on them. And waited ages to be served, only to be told to get your own carvery.