Eat Out Edinburgh!Cafe St Honorė
Cafe St Honore in Edinburgh serves daily-changing, gluten-free and dairy-free menus using the best local, seasonal and sustainable British ingredients and produce by chef Neil Forbes, Chef of the Year.
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Café St Honoré (34 North West Thistle Street Lane, Edinburgh) | The ...
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The dedicated team at Café Saint Honoré celebrate Scotland's abundant larder through a palpable love of great ingredients.
Lauded by the Soil Association and the Sustainable Restaurant Association for its continued dedication to sustainable and ethically sourced produce, the menu reads like a Scottish food directory.
Concealed down a charming cobbled lane in Edinburgh's New Town, Cafe St Honore oozes French brasserie-style chic.
The à la carte menu changes daily, reflecting the seasons, and is supported by a Cafe Classics menu of favourites, such as organic Scotch beef bourguignon and mash, whole grilled sardines, coq au vin made with organic Perthshire chickens, and local cheeses with home-made oatcakes and chutney.
Members of the Sustainable Restaurant Association since 2009, Cafe St Honoré was awarded the highest accolade of 3-star champion status in August 2012.
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The new owners are making positive changes at 17-year-old bistro, Katie's, says Gaby Soutar Asking the public to name anything never usually goes well.
Unfortunately, I didn’t notice that they’d forgotten to add the “homemade ale chutney” before I’d already Dyson-ed up the smooth and garlicky salmon pink pate, which came with three insole-sized pieces of crispy toast and a lightly olive oil dressed salad of baby gem, radish and beetroot wedges.
Our pakora option didn’t appear to feature a single sievert of heat, but the soft interior, with a protective thatch of crispy onions round the outside, made up for that.
We also liked our other side of sweet onion rings (£3.50), with their dark pakora batter.
From The Grill section, where, amongst other things, there’s also fillet (£24.95) and rump (£14.95), our ribeye steak (£18.95) was a seared-on-the-outside and yieldingly pink inside slab of well-rested juicy-ness, with a little blob of garlic butter (£1.75) in the middle, like a melting yolk.
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Tucked away on a cobbled lane in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, Cafe St Honore is a happy marriage between classic French decor and carefully sourced Scottish ingredients.
Cafe St Honore may sound as if it is a French restaurant which has decamped to Edinburgh but, despite the elegant Gallic interior, the cooking is mainly although not exclusively modern Scottish.
Child-friendly, the restaurant is located on North West Thistle Lane.
The restaurant prides itself on its sustainable kitchen and as Cafe St Honore uses seasonal produce, each day the talented chefs create a new menu to bring out the best in the ingredients delivered that morning.
Cafe St Honore can be found on North West Thistle Lane in the New Town area of Edinburgh, close to Queen Street Gardens.
Restaurant Mark, Café St Honoré, The Scran & Scallie, Edinburgh
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It was the sheer quality of the ingredients in our first courses – a rabbit ballotine, two diver scallops and a smoking “cannelloni” of crab – at Restaurant Mark Greenaway overlooking the Queen Street Gardens in Edinburgh that immediately impressed me.
But far more important, what Greenaway exemplified was that third estimable quality – the sense of confidence that pervades a growing number of Scottish chefs.
Tom Kitchin, whose first restaurant, The Kitchin in Leith, saw him apply all he had learnt while cooking in Paris to the bounty of Scotland’s larder, has now opened The Scran & Scallie as “a public house with dining” at 1 Comely Bank Road, Stockbridge.
But the building’s new identity is now unequivocally Scottish, from its name (Scran & Scallie means “food and children” for those outside Scotland); to its range of Scottish beers on tap; to a menu of oysters, fish pie, venison sausages and braised hogget; to a warm Scottish welcome from Bridget Bradley, its Edinburgh-born manager.
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Meet a team of passionate chefs who can't wait to see what fantastic produce will be delivered each day, and what they can create from it.
Taking delivery of whole and part-carcases makes much more sense for a sustainable kitchen.
Chef Director Neil Forbes describes cooking as an "emotional experience that uses all the senses".
Born into a family of chefs, it was his granny's soup that first inspired a young Neil to get behind the stove, and inspires him still.
"Good, honest ingredients cooked simply" he says of the soup, and it's possibly the best way to describe the menus at Cafe.
Café St Honoré | Restaurants in New Town, Edinburgh
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Enduring bistro that hasn’t lost its charm.
A rigid observer of the SlowFood movement, expect the best ingredients Café St Honoré has been around for donkeys, but still, quite rightly, comes up in conversation as one of the nicest spots for a smart bistro meal in the centre of Edinburgh.
But the French angle got sidelined long ago in favour of locally sourced Scottish produce, cooked expertly, slavishly following the principles of Slow Food.
The chefs clearly take the rules of the international Slow Food movement seriously – if there’s a sublime, but criminally overlooked variety of rhubarb, they’ll track it down and bake it in an almond tart.
Gluten, dairy and meat-avoiders are well catered for, and, as well as the reasonably pitched Café Classics menu (three courses of their favourite dishes for £19.50 at lunch, or £23.50 at dinner), there’s now an Express Lunch menu (£18.50 for three courses).