The Street

THE STREET...

We have just reached the landmark of thirteen years as The Street Bar & cornerstone of Edinburgh’s Pink Triangle, and for the past five years “The Street Nightclub” has been open until 3am in our basement EVERY Friday & Saturday.

Thursday nights is "The Quality Street Show" with DJs LouLou Honky Tonk, Marie Potter & guests playing every flavour in the box.

Every Friday night is “The Wendy House” with resident DJ Trendy Wendy’s very own house party and features regular guest djs.

Saturday nights have some of Scotland’s finest djs lined up for “Disco-Brolly” with resident slots from “Shaka Loves you”, “TittyTittyBangBAng” & “MumboJumbo”... ALL  the music played fits underneath our big disco umbrella!!

page but please come check us out for yourself... Further additions which make The Street a stand-out place to hang are the vintage style black & white Photo Booth & Scotland's first "Street-Art" Gallery where you can buy a Banksy with your beer!

http://www.thestreetbaredinburgh.co.uk

Hotel Indigo Edinburgh Review - The Luxury Editor

What do you get when you mix one of our favourite restaurants in the city with a beautiful new boutique hotel and top it all off with one of the best views in Edinburgh?

Well you have a mach made in heaven of course, which is exactly what new Hotel Indigo on Princes Street has managed to achieve since it opened late last year and TLE went along recently to test out a room for the night.

Fun little nods to the cities rich literary history are dotted throughout the property like room numbers embossed and engraved in genuine book leather, to the menu’s in the restaurant laid out in a novel format complete with plot, protagonist and conclusion, this is anything but another characterless chain hotel.

It is worth noting for those of us who need complete silence to sleep at night, I have stayed in many hotels front facing rooms – great at daytime but then at night they can be noisy with the goings on from bars and restaurants below.

Combined with the fact you have access to this fabulous restaurant and bar in the same property and slap bang in the middle of Princes street, this really is the perfect place to come for a night or a few nights in Edinburgh.

Gaucho, Edinburgh, restaurant review - Scotsman Food and Drink

Stick with steak at Edinburgh's Gaucho or you might be disappointed, says Gaby Soutar I need to invest in some night vision goggles.

This featured three petite helpings, and we all liked our bites of limey tuna ceviche, with cola-cube coloured pieces of fish and a bolster of creamy guacamole, while the soft shell crab causita featured a couple of tempura battered limbs, a dollop of smoked paprika mayonnaise, parsley vinaigrette and, on the side, a stub of what tasted and looked a lot like cold mashed potato.

When it came to mains, I wish one of us had tried their steak, but some bad ordering meant the closest we got was the lomo a la Milanese (£19.95).

Well, apart from the half lemon that came with my option, which featured two insole-sized pieces of dry and fibrous “tenderised fillet steak”.

Our grilled swordfish steak (£21.95) was OK, though a little grey and overdone, and came with a pleasant crushed and smoked chickpea mixture, as well as a pointless pyre of chopped raw red onion.

Trenchtown, Edinburgh, restaurant review - Scotsman Food and Drink

The vibrant Caribbean food at Trenchtown is more than irie, says Gaby Soutar This eatery was formerly The Killer Restaurant.

They’ve given it a Caribbean theme – brave, considering it’s a comparatively untested genre of food in Edinburgh (further along Gilmore Place, Jamaican eatery Jam Rock 876 only seemed to survive for a few weeks).

Its accompaniment of coconut shavings and watermelon-chunk-topped rice and peas was rich and stocky, with plenty of kidney beans, and all this came with a plateful of dumplings, like tiny baguettes, for a slump-inducing carb overload.

I’d also been offered three different types of jerk dressing and had gone for the fluffy newborn kitten lowest heat level – pineapple – which, plastered all over the char-lined chook, was still quite heady for a lightweight likeme.

This came with a large bowlful of steamy rice and, best of all, an electrifyingly hot chow made from pineapple chunks, lime and coriander.

Mercure Edinburgh Princes Street | Hotel in Edinburgh

Gary Ralston's restaurant review: The Foresters Guild, 40 Portobello ...

My pal Ronnie and his missus have just retired and hit on the perfect social system on the rare occasions Janis runs out of DIY demands around their Leith home (poor Ronnie reckons he’s already walked 500 miles to and from the local B&Q).

Every month, they each choose a new restaurant to visit and Ronnie insists it’s the perfect arrangement – he gets two hours’ peace to watch Hibs on the telly and Janis enjoys decent lunches.

More importantly, Ronnie reckoned the menu hit the mark – Scottish bistro dining, one sheet of A4 supplemented by an eye-catching specials board and with an emphasis on fresh, seasonal, local produce.

Ronnie started with a thick, green broth of pea and ham hock soup, served with basil and gave it top marks.

Ronnie passed on dessert but there were more than fairy lights lighting up the specials board as the chocolate ganache with glazed berries and a berry sorbet caught my eye.

The Grain Store, Edinburgh, restaurant review - Telegraph

The restaurant that concerns us today is The Grain Store in Edinburgh, and not – let me emphasise that: NOT – the Grain Store opened recently in King’s Cross by the feted French chef, Bruno Loubet.

It is a bold space loosely resembling a weirdly luxurious medieval monastic cell decorated by some Kelly Hoppen of early Victorian Britain (possibly one into homoerotica, given the wildly incongruous image, next to the clock, of a man crouching athletically).

After outstanding bread, and over a lovely, fruity New Zealand sauvignon blanc house wine from a helpful, chatty list, my friend kicked off with seared mackerel with piccalilli.

A generous disc of that braised roe deer came wrapped in a vine leaf with beetroot, celeriac and a ring of crushed raspberries, which worked surprisingly well with the prince of red meats – a lovely, gentle, coherent amalgam of flavours, and worth the price of the set lunch on its own.

A delight after a brief stroll from around the corner, in other words, but possibly a disappointment to those who lose their bearings in the King’s Cross area, and find themselves dining some 400 miles from the Grain Store of their choice.

The Principal Edinburgh Charlotte Square Hotel Review, Scotland ...

An old hotel in a classy city centre location reinvented in mid-century modern Soho House-style chic.

With a darkly dramatic reception area, stylised ‘Levantine’ restaurant and characterful, deeply comfortable bedrooms, it’s an Instagram-ready example of a new generation of corporate hotels.