Spoon

Spoon cafe restaurant, Edinburgh

Spoon cafe restaurant, Edinburgh

http://www.spoonedinburgh.co.uk

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With its bohemian ambience and unselfconsciously arty decor, Spoon boasts high quality cuisine at a reasonable price.

The quirky mismatched furniture is interspersed with pot plants, Victorian style... Read More With its bohemian ambience and unselfconsciously arty decor, Spoon boasts high quality cuisine at a reasonable price.

The quirky mismatched furniture is interspersed with pot plants, Victorian style screens and bookcases, and the vintage wallpaper and ornate teacups add to its retro charm.

The menu is not particularly large, but the quality of the ingredients and the wonderful atmosphere more than make up for this.

Spoon (6a Nicolson Street, Edinburgh) | The List

This is a relaxed and informal bistro where students share a space with theatregoers.

The slightly alternative feel is reflected in a varied menu which is built around the wares of local suppliers and changes regularly.

A substantial breakfast menu offers meaty fried options alongside fruit or veg alternatives and runs through till 5pm for late risers.

Lunch mixes soup and sandwiches with larger offerings such as turkey escalope or grilled salmon.

Dinner ranges from vegetarian dishes such as a charred aubergine and courgette curry or beetroot rosti with bulgur wheat, to lamb chops, chicken tagine and pork belly.

Spoon cafe restaurant, Edinburgh

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Formally known as Clerk's Bar, the new Mexican bar and eatery  Diablo Loco opened up only a few weeks ago on South Clerk street, Edinburgh.

Their menu is a solid lineup of traditional Latin American dishes, including Baja fish tacos and chipotle glazed pork belly, while the drinks menu offers such delights as Pineapple & Cardamon margaritas and the El Craig Davide shot.

My favourite part of the meal was the Baja fish tacos with pea mole, cabbage, pickled jalapeno & lime mayo.

Overall I could definitely be tempted back to Diablo Loco with the promise of a plateful of fish tacos, and I might just have to round the meal off by sampling the ice-cream waffle taco I was eyeing up.

In the end, I decided on the Naked Burrito which came with caramelised sweet potato, pulled chilli jackfruit, corn salsa, fiery slaw, green rice, pomegranate and avocado.

Restaurant review: Spoon Café Bistro, 6a Nicolson Street, Edinburgh

Predominantly French-inflected, my only problem was being limited to a single starter and main course.

The Barnsley chop was an early front-runner for the main, but would have precluded the lamb kidneys with peas and lettuce for a starter; so I ended up ordering hake with chorizo and blood sausage, while Sam started with a salad of chick-peas, beetroot, blood-orange and feta and went on to the venison bourguignonne.

Sam's starter was equally impressive, balancing a creamy, warmed feta with the sharpness and sweetness of orange and beetroot (which was also awfully pretty on the plate).

Sam's main course was handled with the respect a classic deserves; meltingly tender meat in a wine-dark broth of button onions, lardons and nutty mushrooms, with a celeriac mash to provide a bitter counterweight.

Spoon Caf Bistro 6a Nicolson Street, Edinburgh (0131-557 4567) Bill please: Starters 3.50-5.95 Mains 9.95-14.95 Desserts 3.50-5.95 Rating: **** #149 This article was first published in The Scotland On Sunday, April 25, 2010

Spoon | Restaurants in Old Town, Edinburgh

Well worth the trip upstairs for a decent coffee An attractive, spacious first floor café-restaurant with quirky retro décor, handy for the Festival Theatre across the street, Spoon has filled a niche on the local eating-out scene for more than a decade.

Clearly it functions as a restaurant at lunch and dinner but one corner of the open-plan premises is given over to coffee drinkers, snackers and almond croissant nibblers.

Very fine coffee it is too.