Salisbury Arms Edinburgh Reviews Summary

Parking

Pros:

• "Great parking, especially if your with someone or if yourself isn't very mobile."
• "There are parking spaces available and everyone is trying their best to stick with the corona safety regulations!"
• "This place was a great find during my stay in Edinburgh. Ample parking first of all."
• "The restaurant has ample parking lots."
• "It’s a great thing to be able to park on the premises with a good system in place to restrict parking to customers."
• "Firstly great car park, mostly empty."
• "There is free wheelchair parking and access."

Cons:

• "I’ve ended up with a parking fine."
• "Beware that you must forward your car details to the restaurant if you wish to park here, and not incur a £50 fine."
• "Unfortunately now being harassed for parking the company van in car park."

Service

Pros:

• "The service was good and friendly lovely visit and would come again."
• "The staff do a fantastic job of looking after us always."
• "Lovely friendly staff who went above & beyond who made our experience more enjoyable & will treasure the memory of this Lovely place for a very long time, will definitely revisit."
• "The staff were friendly and attentive and really went the extra mile."
• "Service by Jonathan topped it all. He is extremely friendly, smiling and very helpful in advising food."
• "The service throughout was exemplary and always with a smile."
• "Service was wonderful, food was fantastic, the espresso martini’s were fabulous."

Cons:

• "Waited about 10 minutes to get served. And then I had to insist that so was served next as the bar server tried to ignore me."
• "We were forgotten by the staff but had a nice time catching up."
• "Our server was nice, but the staff seemed generally disorganized."
• "The service was very inattentive."
• "Staff serving us and at the bar were either openly rude or absent during service."
• "Service was very slow. We had finished our starters before our drinks arrived."
• "We never were checked up on but they came by all other tables."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Roast Beef melts in your mouth, giant Yorkshire Pudding, excellent selection of vegetables and tasty gravy."
• "Plant Based Burger was really light and full of flavour."
• "The small dishes were incredible, especially the scallops and the halloumi."
• "The food was great. We had the dirty burger and nourish bowl, both of which were very, very tasty."
• "I always tend to go for fish and chips and theirs is as good as it gets."
• "Had a roast beef lunch lovely tender beef fluffy light Yorkshire pudding 10/10."
• "The mac n cheese was one of the best I've ever tried at any restaurant."

Cons:

• "The meat was fatty and flavorless."
• "Sadly the food was a long wait in coming out the potions were small in comparison the higher price."
• "Overpriced mediocre food."
• "Apple and blackberry crumble was quite disappointing, most of the filling was reduced to a very sweet liquid with only seeds remaining."
• "The roasts were nice and the staff friendly, but the tiramisu dessert is awful."
• "The food was not as good as previous times I have eaten there, The taste and quantities were the difference for me."
• "The food menu was extensive, the fish was greasy and the balmoral chicken was dry."

Ambience

Pros:

• "The environment here is great."
• "Beautiful interior and a lovely atmosphere."
• "Very cosy interior and a dog friendly venue."
• "The decor inside is rustic chic with a lovely ambience."
• "The atmosphere was fantastic."
• "The place has a cosy atmosphere and you can actually have a conversation without being drowned out by loud music."
• "The atmosphere in the place was relaxed, the décor was very pleasing to the eye and added to the class of the Hotel."

Cons:

• "One female member of staff in particular is extremely rude and hostile to customers."
• "The experience unfortunately did ruin our evening plans as we had to end up walking to Nando's for a meal."
• "Wooden table had grooves between panels and these were full of crumbs - looked like they hadn't been cleaned for some time."
• "Nice warm place, but not quiet for sure. We had to speak quite loudly to hear each other even though there wasn't even music in the background."
• "It's a little pricey to be a 'local', and the atmosphere isn't quite boutique enough for those prices to be a bargain."
• "The restaurant overall nearly stank of fish, more than fish and chips should have caused."
• "Not a typical pub atmosphere, more formal than we were expecting."