Edinburgh Restaurant

The city of Edinburgh has a wide range of restaurants and pubs to cater to all types of visitors. The restaurants in Edinburgh offer different kinds of foods to suit varying tastes and pockets. You can find a wide range of cuisines like Italian, French, American, Indian, Turkish and Far Eastern. Edinburgh restaurants offer not just wonderful cuisines, but some of them boast of splendid interiors dating back to Victorian and Edwardian times. You can also find a good selection of Spanish restaurants serving traditional Spanish fare. Edinburgh is also one of the famous spots for some excellent seafood restaurants. As Scotland is home to one of the largest fishing fleets in the UK, you can sample a variety of seafood across the restaurants in Edinburgh. Among the most served in Edinburgh restaurants is 'fish and chips'. You can also find some small fish and chips shops with attached dining facilities.

Indian food as well as Chinese restaurants are popular in Edinburgh. One cannot talk of French cuisine at an Edinburgh restaurant and not talk about 'the Auld Alliance', which has been catering to the appetites of French food lovers. Thai and Japanese cuisines have also caught on in popularity with Edinburgh restaurants. You can also find the taste of Scotland at the restaurants in Edinburgh. Such restaurants offer traditional Scottish haggis, neeps and tatties. Haggis is the traditional dish of Scotland. It is made by boiling and mincing the windpipe, heart and liver of the sheep. Then this mixture is placed inside the sheep's stomach and cooked for about three hours. Bannocks are barley and oatmeal biscuits that are baked on a griddle. Black bun - a rich fruitcake bursting with raisins, chopped almonds and brown sugar, is yet another Scottish favorite. Sweet turnip and mashed potatoes are also part of most meals at an Edinburgh restaurant. A Glavva cocktail is another specialty of Scotland. A drink that has come down the ages, this is a blend of whisky with herbs, fruit and spices.