The Cellar Door in Edinburgh

Nice place with very friendly staff. The food was good, but it would of been nice to have some Scottish seafood, as it was the Scottish tasting menu.

Booked this restaurant on a whim and ended up doing the six course tasting menu as I couldn't decide on all the fabulous food. Every course was full of flavour and perfectly balanced. The venison was the highlight for me, and is possibly one of the best plates of food I've had the pleasure to eat. The staff were very welcoming and friendly and the vibe was very cosy on a cold Scottish evening. Loved it, will be back next time I visit Edinburgh.

We had an amazing meal at The Cellar Door, my wife and were celebrating my 40th birthday and decided to treat ourselves. Boy did we make the right choice.The cellar door is a small space but by no means did we feel cramped, it was a Thursday at the start of February. We were greeted and sat by Lorna who was lovely and extremely helpful.We had looked online before hand and decided the 6 course taster menu with wine pairings was our option that evening. WOW!!The food was spectacular all the courses were clever and innovative and paired beautifully with the drinks.My wife was particularly enamoured with the venison main course which had a sublime sauce and a venison Hartley that was just amazing.I was blown away by the everything and even though I had enjoyed more than enough food with the rest of the taster menu couldn't resist a good cheese board with a gorgeous port alongside.We would like to give a massive thank you to the whole team from that night and Lorna was amazing friendly, funny, attentive and not at all over baring.Thank you next time we are in Edinburgh we will definitely be back 5 stars for sure!!

5-star service. Great location, lovely place. Foods were great in size and taste. Nothing fails. Get the mussels for starters and sticky toffee for desserts, you can't possibly regret it.

We had the 6 courses set menu taste of Scotland. I would say, the quality is really good and slightly above my expactation. The 6 courses set is strongly recommended. The vension and the haggis parcel was the best. We were quite early, arrived around 12.30. The whole restaurant was pretty empty. The atmosphere was great.

We had the 4 course taster served before 5pm , Veronica served us and did a great job, getting us settled in, going through the options , confirming the order and then serving it up. Drinks were brought by another server. Really enjoyed the variety of dishes and flavours, some never tried before. The restaurant is down stairs so don’t be put off if the bar is empty, it will be busy down there.

This is by far the best place to eat in Edinburgh. Cosy nice atmosphere, staff are incredibly knowledgeable about the food and wine. We had the Christmas 6 course tasting menu. Amazing food and great wine pairings.Both Lorna and Lydia were fantastic. This is the second time I've been and would travel to Edinburgh again simply for this restaurant.Superb

We had the Taste of Scotland 6 course menu.The food was excellent with reasonable prices but still very high quality and creative dishes.The service was quick and staff were very nice. I mentioned that it was my wife's birthday and they made it extra special.Thanks for a very memorable birthday dinner.

The food was mediocre and satisfactory, but the price didn’t match up.To start, it took 28 minutes for us to order our meals which was a bit annoying, trying so hard to get the waitress’ attention.The starters were really small. The haggis bonbon starter was £7 for 3 pieces, but the side is £5 for 3 pieces - very confusing? The starters were all quite small too, half a bite per person and it was done.The mains my parents ordered (salmon) were such small portions that they were still hungry and had to order fries, which arrived so long after we ordered that we were ready for the bill at that point.I ordered the vegan risotto and it was incredibly bland. It had 0 flavour - not even salt! It just felt like a quick weeknight meal I would throw together at home, not an expensive restaurant meal.Finally when it came time to get the bill, it was again like chasing down a waitress who was hiding from us! It took so long to finally get someone attention so we could lay and leave.Overall, disappointed.

Hard review to write.Pros: friendly service, good location, kind of them to seat us when they were basically fully booked, generous glass of wine (flavoursome too)Cons: the ‘taste of Scotland’ tasting menu was really quite stingy. All the courses were essentially canapés except the main - nicely garnished but the pork was far too fatty. Kind of left feeling hungry, especially as there was about a 20 min wait between some of the courses. I think their ala carte menu would have been more generous.