The best restaurants serving French food in City Centre Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh and Lothian

Shockingly inept service Long wait to be seated despite reservation Waitstaff didn’t know the menu Server bringing the plates whispered that I gave up trying to hear Then had to asked another server about the wine I ordered Oh, and the dessert? Tasted like it as made 2 weeks ago WARNING - They automatically add 12.5% “discretionary” service charge

Good lunch in a classy restaurant but with decent prices. Much was reserved, but the friendly staff quickly arranged a free table for us.

If I could give someone a tip, I would say: don’t go to this bar. The drinks are not good (tried both cocktails and mocktails). The “magical” aspect of it is fun, but five seconds later you find yourself having to drink an awful drink :( our mocktails looked like normal sodas, and the cocktails were pure alcohol. Additionally, we went to several other places in Edinburgh where we drank cocktails/mocktails/beer and this was by far the worst and also the one we spent the most money in. Go to this place if you ONLY want to make influencer videos for your Instagram with drinks that have bubbles/smoke, but otherwise are terrible. Only pyrotechnics, no flavor.

Delicious food. Pleasant atmosphere. Centrally located. Average prices for this area and type of restaurant. Found table with no problem at c5pm.

Excellent service even though it was very busy. Ladies very friendly and attentive. Afternoon tea delicious

Delicious crepe with generous filling, but the service was a bit slow.

Service was perfect, particularly Safi (apologies if I've got his name wrong) who was very polite and attentive. Food was spot on, really good and no issues talking us through the gluten free options for my partner. Only improvements we'd say is the chairs need an update, but not something we were super fussed on considering the food and service were so good.

The cafe is small but doesn’t feel like it sitting inside. The service was great and staff very friendly and quick service. Had a cappuccino which was really good and very big at a great price and Mum had a lovely cake with her coffee which was delicious and very fresh and came with some cream. Will definitely be back & would recommend for coffee & cakes. The people beside us got heated croissants & was saying how lovely they were and fresh also. Thank you for a pleasant coffee and cake.

Went for pre theatre dinner and had the deal for 2 courses and a glass of wine each . Had quite a while to wait on our wine arriving but when it did , the red and white was worth the wait . Wife had the trio of pork to start and i had the tiger prawns .. both the starters were superb and had us looking forward with anticipation to the main course . Wife had cod and chips and i had Bolognese linguine . We were quickly brought back down to earth . Wife found a large bone in the fish which as you know leads to every mouthful being chewed slowly and carefully .. just incase . My Bolognese , oh dear ! It was the most tasteless and unappetizing plate of food i have had in a long time . There was zero seasoning in the pasta or the Bolognese . I asked the waitress for salt as there was none on our table , i put some salt on it and mixed it together and it was still tasteless. I ate a little more and was going to send it back when my wife said she would give it a try and i could try her fish as she was terrified of finding another bone . I managed to finish the fish without finding another bone however my wife could not manage to finish the pasta and agreed with me that it was probably the worst pasta dish that either of us have ever had . The waitress did ask if she could get us something else , but by then we both had lost our appetite. Lovely place but dont know whats going on in the kitchen !