Four Edinburgh restaurants – two of which are based in Leith – feature prominently in The Sunday Times guide to the Top 100 places to eat in the UK. The influential restaurant guide, which will be published on Sunday, is judged by a panel which icludes top chefs Jamie Oliver, Antonio Carluccio and Nick Jones.
The four Edinburgh restaurants – half of only eight Scottish eateries to feature – to make it into the elite list are Norn, The Gardener’s Cottage, Ondine and Tom Kitchin’s multi-award winning Michelin-starred The Kitchin at Leith’s Commercial Quay.
Norn, on Leith’s Henderson Street (above), is described as a restaurant ‘in the finest tradition of Scottish cooking’, while Ondine on George IV Bridge (below) earns praised as a ‘first-class fish restaurant with the friendliest Scottish service’.