Ecco Vino Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "The service was friendly and welcoming, and the environment was cozy."
• "The service was brilliant and the food amazing."
• "The service is incredible and you can see the chefs and how smoothly they communicate with the host."
• "We were served by a really friendly and very knowledgeable waitress from Seville who recommended some lovely wines."
• "The service experience was great with attention to all its guests with detailed information on food and suggestions on matching wine."
• "Excellent service, great atmosphere (e.g. music enjoyable, but in the background and not too loud so could still have a conversation), delicious food, especially the sea bream which was done perfectly."
• "Great service couldn't do enough for us."

Cons:

• "They force you to pay 10% service stated as optional in the menu!"
• "The waitress made us feel very unwelcome."
• "Unfortunately the service was atrocious."
• "Just bad service. Unreliable and untrustworthy personnel."
• "Servers weren't very pleasant and seemed to be quite put out."
• "Service was not what I expected... we were not given enough time to look at the menu."
• "Bad service-waiting for everything sooo long."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Great food and service. The mussels is recommended."
• "Food is absolutely stunning, one of the best seafood I have eaten in my life."
• "The food was probably the best seafood I have ever eaten."
• "Perfectly cooked seafood, shrimp and muscles."
• "The seafood here was amazing and matched with a great glass of wine."
• "The food is delicious, especially the seafood.. oysters."
• "The most fantastic food, beautiful fresh seafood, fish, pasta and sharing platters."

Cons:

• "The worst food I ever head!!!"
• "Small pizza, don't ask for a vegetarian option: they forgot and didn't offer a discount or another option."
• "half the things on the menu were not available."
• "The whole prawn with the head is not fresh enough."
• "The flavor is a bit plain I say this is a ok seafood linguini but don’t worth the money£20."
• "Food was so so... Mussel was a bit over cooked."
• "I would go as far as saying the food was disgusting."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "It has a great setup, very delicious food, and an atmosphere that makes you want to keep coming back."
• "The surroundings are convivial and the staff helpful and cheerful."
• "Lovely atmosphere with great staff, first class service."
• "The ambience was super: relaxed with light jazz and neo ambient classical/piano music tucked in the background."
• "A charming and authentic Italian bistro in the heart of the old town."
• "Sophisticated yet chilled out vibe, feels like a hidden secret but come one, come all."
• "Set in a warm, homely, traditionally Scottish atmosphere."

Cons:

• "Only gripe we had was that Edinburgh in October is a very cold city and the outside door to the restaurant was left open making it quite cold when eating your meal."
• "Bland food, slow service and aggressive staff did not make this a good experience."
• "But the service was so bad! The table I sat was next to a big piece of wooden wall piece and full of wood flies!"
• "Because the outdoor tables are on the sidewalk of hill, beware of all the sauces running downhill into your lap!"
• "A shame that cigarette smoke from people sitting outside wafted into the restaurant area."
• "The decor was a little wooden and therefore quite loud. Not a relaxing place for dinner."
• "It's very 'cosy' but adds to the atmosphere."

Value

Pros:

• "Very reasonable price."
• "Food was fantastic and reasonably priced."
• "Prices here are fair and slightly better than what you'd fund on the royal mile one block away."
• "Not cheap but not expensive either for being in Edinburgh."
• "Catch of the day fresh but quite pricy 16£ however it seems to be average price for Edinburgh city centre."
• "Great choice of wine and reasonably priced with good portions size."
• "Portion sizes were great for the price."

Cons:

• "The food was OK, quite overpriced for what you get."
• "Food excellent but got slammed with a 10% service charge on menu."
• "Overpriced"
• "Prices are just unbelievable for the size portions."
• "Was it worth $83USD (including 1soft drink, 1beer, and a side of bread)? I personally didn’t think so."
• "Completely bland and overpriced."
• "Overcooked pasta and a scammer."

Accessibility

Pros:

• "Disabled access is ok as it's level with the pavement."
• "On the popular Cockburn St right off the Royal Mile and very close to Edinburgh Waverley stn."
• "A great place to stop prior to a train trip and only 100 metres from Waverley."

Cons:

• "Cockburn Street is quite steep, so in itself not great if you're a wheelchair user."
• "There's no disabled bathroom and only the ladies toilet is on the ground floor."