Address: 19 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EN, United Kingdom
Phone: +441312251740
Rating: 4.4
based on 439 reviews.
Service
Pros:
"The staff were very friendly, especially towards our 1 year old daughter who just wanted to run around and explore, and we were seated quickly with no fuss."
"The servers were fantastic, lighting speed on the service and really friendly."
"The service was wonderful, thank you so much Mirco!"
"All meals were served in a timely manner, hot and very tasty."
"Staff were all extremely friendly."
"The service from the staff was excellent."
"Customer service was very kind and professional."
Cons:
"The certain waitress who serviced us could not get closer to joining our table!"
"The waitress we had also was quite grumpy!"
"They completely ignored our words and insisted that 'THEIR FOOD ARE ALL FRESH' without any form of apology."
"Complained to Management who did nothing about it."
"Poor customer service, waiter could not have been less interested."
"Waiter was too busy laughing/flirting with other waitresses to take our food order properly and got it wrong."
"Waitress was very cold and just wanted to hurry us out."
Food Quality
Pros:
"Food was absolutely delicious and they catered brilliantly for 2 in our family who are dairy free."
"Food was brilliant, great taste with pasta dishes all tasting different."
"The food was delicious and very reasonably priced."
"Had the Tagliatelle Vittoria and would have to say it was my favourite pasta dish I’ve ever eaten out."
"Gorgeous food, we had tagliatelle and ravioli plus garlic and herb saute potatoes."
"The food was amazing; I’ve just been to Italy and it tasted as authentic as Italian food from Italy."
"The best Italian restaurant I've been to (and that's including ones in Rome and Milan)."
Cons:
"The pizzas looked dry and disappointing."
"The seafood risotto is also very disgusting! The squid ring almost made me want to throw up!"
"Squid ink pasta went soggy and was too oily to eat."
"The carbonara tasted a bit fishy and I had to swap for my partners pizza."
"Spoiled mussels with a rotten smell were served as 'FRESH SCOTTISH MUSSELS'."
"The vegan cheese was just a slimy goo, and there were barely any vegetables to be seen."
"The spaghetti sauce had all the flavour profile of ketchup."
Ambience
Pros:
"What a lovely, bright and modern looking restaurant which is large and spacious with another large restaurant downstairs."
"The place was clean and well decorated."
"The restaurant itself was beautiful and very light and airy."
"The set up was beautiful, the food was AMAZING."
"The atmosphere was warm, buzzy and a very fun, family atmosphere in general."
"It was a fun and cozy atmosphere."
"The restaurant has a lovely ambiance."
Cons:
"The ambience downstairs is very cramped."
"Restroom definitely needs upgrading."
"Nice place but we were sat downstairs lacking windows or atmosphere."
"Very loud and cramped restaurant."
"The place was full and incredibly noisy, to the point of feeling overwhelming."
"Table where we were sitting was close to the door, so cold draft needed coat over my shoulders."
"Slightly more 'cafe' ambience than restaurant maybe, I wouldn’t say it’s particularly 'classy'."
Value
Pros:
"The food was delicious and very reasonably priced."
"It was very good value though bout £70 for two courses and cocktails which is great."
"£51 that was based on the lunch time menu which I thought was good value for an Edinburgh lunch."
"The food was good value with generous portions."
"Price wise very reasonable."
"Both were quite cheap considering how good it was."
"Always a joy to eat there with prices not being too high."
Cons:
"it costs 82 pound for 2 pasta and 2 prawn, 1 ice cream, 3 cola. So the price was high."
"Everything felt wildly overpriced and not very thought through."
"Our food was served hot but was overpriced for what we received."
"Restaurant is little on the expensive side."
"Drinks were a little on the expensive side with a can of coke working out at roughly £3.50 with service charge added."
"Charged 4.5 pounds for 1 bottle. Absolute rip off and unethical."
"Also not a fan of a 10% 'discretionary' gratuity being added to the bill."