Contini George Street

Contini George Street

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TartanSpoon - REVIEW : Contini, George Street, Edinburgh

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The emphasis is on sharing; you’re encouraged to order a few dishes from the Primi (first course) part of the menu.

We ordered the Fritti which is fresh Scottish baby squid, deep fried Italian vegetables with Amalfi lemon and Mara seaweed homemade mayonnaise.

It’s fresh orecchiette with Italian piccante sausage, dried porcini mushrooms, rocket, fresh cream and Parmigiano Reggiano DOP; AND it’s sensational.

No Italian meal is complete without some homemade bread so we ordered the Pane al Forno; flavoured focaccia served with roasted hazelnut crema and I Ciacca cold pressed olive oil.

The roasted cauliflower puree was sweet and smooth and the wee nuggets of sanguinaccio or black pudding were quite crispy; along with the strips of bacon added the crunch texture profile needed for this dish.

Restaurant review: Contini George Street, Edinburgh | HeraldScotland

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“Secondi’ follow, copious meat and fish dishes; a hearty bollito misto with salsa verde and mostarda fruits; salt cod perhaps.

So our velvety, rosemary-cured, Tuscan (Protected Geographical Indication) lardo from Tuscany came with creamed Italian goat’s cheese, luscious thyme-roasted grapes and crumbled biscotti; original and not expensive at £6.

Paper-thin raw fennel provides a crisp structure that supports slices of soft pink-dashed Tarocco orange and fat mauve-green olives, all drizzled with acacia honey.

The Fontodi extra virgin olive oil is another show-stealer with its lime-green glints and Tuscan pepperiness that grips the back of the tongue.

Some might find my pearly cod, poached in cold-pressed olive oil, with fennel, samphire and chilli, a tad intense.

Restaurant review: Contini George Street, Edinburgh | HeraldScotland

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food   drinks  

“Secondi’ follow, copious meat and fish dishes; a hearty bollito misto with salsa verde and mostarda fruits; salt cod perhaps.

So our velvety, rosemary-cured, Tuscan (Protected Geographical Indication) lardo from Tuscany came with creamed Italian goat’s cheese, luscious thyme-roasted grapes and crumbled biscotti; original and not expensive at £6.

Paper-thin raw fennel provides a crisp structure that supports slices of soft pink-dashed Tarocco orange and fat mauve-green olives, all drizzled with acacia honey.

The Fontodi extra virgin olive oil is another show-stealer with its lime-green glints and Tuscan pepperiness that grips the back of the tongue.

Some might find my pearly cod, poached in cold-pressed olive oil, with fennel, samphire and chilli, a tad intense.

Contini Ristorante, Edinburgh, restaurant review - Scotsman Food ...

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Two of us pretended to be continental ordering the antipasto misto (£8.95) to share, divvying up the Prosciutto di Parma, Bocconcini di Bufala Campana DOP, Pachino tomatoes, roasted Italian vegetables and garlic bruschetta.

I graciously allowed Liz to order my all time favourite Contini dish, the contadino orecchiette with fresh Italian piccante sausage, cremini and dried porcini mushrooms, rocket and Parmigiano Reggiano DOP (£8.25/£12.95), and I encouraged her to choose the starter-sized portion as this is quite filling, but so delicious that you would be quite broken-hearted to have to leave any of it unscoffed.

Due to a current overfondness for aubergines, once I had clapped eyes on the pizza melanzane e alici, tomato salsa, Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP, I Ciacca extra virgin olive oil, roasted violet aubergines, salted anchovies and dried oregano (£12.95), I couldn’t see past it.

The homemade meringue with Madagascan vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce (£6.95) wasn’t an entire let down as we enjoyed the other elements on the plate.

ALSO ON THE MENU Vegetarians might fancy the peperonata con verdure (£13.95), which features Italian peppers, aubergines and courgettes slow-cooked in Sicilian tomatoes and Taggiasche olive tapenade, served with garlic bruschetta on the side in case it was beginning to sound too healthy.

Contini George Street, Edinburgh - Restaurant Bookings & Offers ...

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Opened in 2004 as the first of Victor and Carina Contini’s group of three Edinburgh restaurants, Contini George Street blends contemporary Italian cooking with well sourced local ingredients and imported Italian specialities.

Set in an imposing converted banking hall on George Street, Contini George Street is loftily grand yet also very welcoming.

Whether a dish uses imported Italian specialities, local artisan products or even vegetables from the Continis’ kitchen garden, it is all about the ingredients at Contini George Street.

Breakfasts, morning coffees and after work aperitivos are also popular at Contini George Street.

Contini George Street in Edinburgh city centre.

Contini Ristorante, George Street, Edinburgh

Great restaurant in the centre of town .

The restaurant has portable ramps to make it accessible for wheelchair users as there are a few steps at the entrance.

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Restaurant review: Contini Cannonball, Edinburgh - The Scotsman

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Lunch for two, excluding drinks, £47 FOOD: 9/10 AMBIENCE: 9/10 TOTAL: 18/20 Carina Contini is one of Weekend Life’s regular food columnists, and she and her husband Victor own this restaurant, as well as Edinburgh’s Scottish Cafe Restaurant and Contini Ristorante (formerly Centotre).

They’re currently serving lunch daily (dinner is Wednesday to Saturday only) and, on our Saturday visit, there was just the set menu of two courses for £18, three for £22.

These were sprinkled with sea salt and interleaved like the apple on a tarte tartin, with additional layers of transparent pickled turnip and downy blobs of parsley-strewn ricotta.

My other half didn’t quite connect with his main of Phantassie organic pumpkin gnocchi, as he found the flavour and texture too cakey.

It was served in a sundae glass, with a “Victor Carina CONTINI EDINBURGH”-emblazoned wafer sticking out of the top of three scoops worth of biscuity, hazelnutty, chocolate-y ice-cream, which was pretty darn good, even in the bleak midwinter.

Contini Cannonball: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style ...

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Based on this latest restaurant from the venerable Contini family it’s not short on a soft nationalism, expressed through the culinary.

Long before restaurants in other parts of the UK became label obsessed, as if slapping the name of a market town before the word “chicken” immediately gave it virtue, a certain type of Scottish restaurant was bigging up locality through the food on the plate.

Here at Contini Cannonball, they want you to know that this is very much a Scottish restaurant, serving Scottish food.

In case you weren’t clear they’ve put whisky in the sour cream sauce to go with fried (cannon) balls of haggis, and tartan on the banquettes.

Their Cullen skink, all firm potato, smokey haddock and half a cow’s worth of cream, is the kind of bowlful to make you think dreamily of cold winter afternoons; a chicken salad, with a grilled sliced breast and the crunch of green beans, comes flying in from another season altogether.

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