Thomas M
Absolutely amazing meal. The staff were excellent; friendly and helpful. The food was delicious, and the portion sizes perfect. The interior of the restaurant is cosy and modern, with a lovely atmosphere. We thoroughly enjoyed our meal, and would highly recommend it to anyone
Dee Castro
This place was recommended to us and I am thankful to the nice stranger in the smoking section 😊. The people at honours really know what they are doing. We didn't have a reservation but we were offered a place by the bar. Music isn't played too loud, the lighting creates a cozy feeling which you get even sitted at the bar! The food? Ahhh the food.. deliciousness. It is authentically good food which is all sourced locally but very alacarte. The parmesan risotto is a creamy delight. We especially loved our mains - hand rolled tagliatelle with truffle puree and scallops, morrocan lemon chicken, potatoes, french beans. The best was indeed saved for last! The honours sundae is a wonderful surprise- toffee caramel ice cream, honeycomb, pecans, caramilised banana and tiny chocolate pieces which sort of bubble and pop in your mouth 😄 all in all, truly worth it!
Gemma
Fabulous, couldn't fault it, had a wonderful birthday lunch, we haven't been to a fine dining/Michelin star restaurant since we had a very disappointing experience at Tom Kitchen a couple of years ago but this has most certainly restored our faith in great food and service.
Lili H
The best French restaurant I have been in the UK so far. Went there for a business lunch on a friend's recommendation. Had the set menu - salmon, duck leg and soufflé. The food was exquisite. Highly recommended.
Dougie Atkinson
Great lunch at exceptional value. And very good service too!
B S
I had a diner with my wife. It was so nice diner! Thank you for your excellent services!
Paul Khanna
I didn’t know what to expect as this was reservation was made for me. We were a party of 4 in the evening and had the best meal during my visit to Edinburgh. I started with 12 Oysters, half traditional the other half a variety of creative arrangements (the Champagne Oyster was amazing). Fantastic cocktails too. Then moved on to a Chateaubriand for two. Excellent! The side dishes were equally great. Fantastic service, excellent Bordeaux wine at a reasonable price. I would return here and highly recommend.
Keith Gunn
Went for a birthday meal, it's a relaxed place which gives it a nice feel, not too big either so has a cosier feel. Arrived early so took time to try a cocktail in the lounge, they were excellent. The food was as expected, all high quality and full of flavour. Service was very good, all the staff look like they are in a hurry, they are almost sprinting back to the kitchen! Portions are decent, especially the starters, time between courses was just right. Very satisfied and will definitely return.
Jen J
Lovely food here. It's definitely somewhere one would go for special occasions. The service is very polite and friendly (but not overly so which is my preference). The food here is undoubtedly expensive.
We enjoyed our scallop and pasta dish, although it was a tad salty. Dessert, a sundae with glorious toppings, was delicious.
Stelios Serghiou
A gem! This is the best value for money experience I have ever had. The atmosphere is chic, the food is Michelin-standard and the service is very attentive with extremely helpful advice on food and wine. We paid about 40 pounds per person for a starter, main, a bottle of wine and a dessert to share, which I would say is an extremely good price for its standard.
If I were to say one disadvantage, that would be it is slightly noisier than I would like. However, it being a brasserie this is within the package.
Highly recommended!
Diogo Bento
Amazing experience. We had cocktails to start at the bar and then were led to the dining room for our meal. Oysters were super fresh and our starters and main courses were prepared to perfection. Paul was extremely helpful and guided us through our meal in an effortless fashion.
I can not recommend this restaurant enough. A must visit for anyone in Edinburgh.
Edel Hennessy
Eating at The Honours is an amazing experience! As soon as you walk in the staff treat you warmly and are very genial. I booked last minute on a Saturday so we were sitting at the bar, however this was still quite comfortable. My friend and I had the scallops and risotto to start, these were both phenomenal and perfectly light as starters. We shared the cote du boeuf for mains and it was a great decision on our behalf! Every component was perfectly done and flawless. The cocktails we had alongside dinner were unusual and really well balanced. Overall a great dining experience!
Mowdre
Great dining experience. A nice welcome upon arrival and shown to our table in a busy and obviously popular restaurant.
The menu offers a varied choice and the staff are knowledgeable and always happy to describe each dish. The oysters with pink champagne were a taste sensation and an indication of good things to come.
Salade du chef was a nice light starter with perfect poached egg.
We shared the Chateaubriand and it was the highlight. Silence at the table while we both enjoyed this meal, but will vocally sing praises about The Honours! Good work!
Martyn Haigh
Wow. This place not only served the best steak we've had in a long time, but the staff were so *SO* friendly. Hamish, if that is even your real name, you made the evening... No... You made our trip to Edinburgh - your witty introduction to the menu and constant friendliness were a fantastic addition to our birthday weekend.
L K
Good - but not excelent - food. High ceilings.
Good service - pleasant staff. Nice ambiance.
Circa £60 per head. Cocktails were apparently okay but not absolutely perfect.
Meat was apparently very good quality.
Chris g
One of the best meals I’ve eaten. The smoked salmon starter was unlike nothing I’ve tried, the roe deer was out of this world and the desert was so good I could have ordered 2. I’ve been to many Michelin starred resteraunts but this place for me is up the amongst the best. Great food, great service fantastic ambience
Jevan Burchell
The most fantastic, wonderful, delicious, succulent and well served steak i have ever eaten. This place is pure heaven: the staff are lovely, the surroundings are tasteful, the cocktails are fabulous and the food is to die for. My new favourite restaurant!!
Adhith Rajesh
Lacks style and atmosphere. Average food at a steep price. Good staff. Tried chicken burger in brioche bun and it was mediocre.
Anvi Deol
Really good<br/><br/>Arguably the best pound for pound food I’ve had in Edinburgh. Non-fussy staff and ambience. Been a few times and never disappointed
Anastasia
Impeccable food and service!! The restaurant has great ambience with classy decor. If you like the taste of fresh oysters, I would highly recommend you to try Fresh Oysters with Lemon & Champagne Granites....sensational! Their house cured smoked salmon is another appetiser to start with also. :)
Dr. H
Delicious and creative food in the heart of Edinburgh. Martin Wishart's new edition is definitely worth a visit. Service is professional and ambience is beautiful and contemporary. Lunch is a limited menu rather than the full menu, so you need to be aware of that.
Little Things
We then headed for dinner at The Honours which is Martin Wisharts latest venture. His restaurant in Leith gave Edinburgh its first Michelin star, and since then his collection of eateries have gone from strength to strength. The Honours really is something special and I would definitely recommend it. The staff are lovely, the interior is chic and the food is to die for!
ManWoman
The service has some key members from the Michelin starred Leith operation, so you get the benefit of a level of service far superior to what you’d expect in a bistro (the other waiters, very nice but displaying inexperience to various extent, looked in fact like they do greatly benefit from their more experienced colleagues – one lovely young lady was literally trembling when taking the dishes away: sweet but painful to watch). A special mention for the manager Steven Spear, a Wishart faithful, whose bright and easy charm (and voice!) cannot fail to strike the customer.<br/>
Vialaporte
Well priced, early 20th century style Parisian bistros are a current British restaurant trend that is very welcome, especially when they are executed with such care as at The Honours in Edinburgh’s New Town. With a playful black and gold interior, Martin Wishart has created a relaxing environment where diners can eat well prepared classics, some with twists, for a fraction of the cost of Michelin set menu with all the satisfaction. True Parisian bistros are frenetic, bordering on chaotic; that’s their charm. With a lively full house, The Honours waiting staff busily rush about the dining room making sure that guest are well looked after, recreating the atmosphere perfectly. Starters kick the evening-off to solidly with homemade potato gnocchi served in a beurre noisette and a touch of sage. Luscious rich squid ink risotto is pepped-up with a zing of ginger, cauliflower and an oozing coddled egg; very satisfying. Mains wise, both the rabbit à la moutarde and Madeira glazed sirloin are u
Lunch Quest
The food was good and the service was impeccable, but it’s not somewhere I’ll have as my go-to restaurant for lunch.
Hilary Sturzaker
A fine end to a very fine evening. All boxes ticked…ambiance, service, food, Josper. You won’t get much change out of £130 for two (with drinks and service) but you won’t find anywhere else quite like this in Edinburgh, a well deserved big TICK for Mr Wishart and team, we’ll be back soon.
Thecriticalcouple
The Honours is Martin Wishart's new Edinburgh brasserie and has already opened to much praise from the online community. In Edinburgh, Chef Wishart is revered as a food god and why not, he gave the city its first Michelin star back in 2001. His fine dining restaurant in Leith ( Restaurant Martin Wishart ) remains one of the country's most well thought of establishments and when we visited it in November of last year, we considered our meal to be easily at the two star standard. We've been advocates of Martin Wishart ever since. The menu at The Honours is described on their website to be 'where traditional French cuisine meets the flavours of the Scottish market' and yet looking at the menu, this seems perhaps a touch heavy on marketing spin. A quick glance sees Oysters that are sourced only from Cornwall, Jamon Bellota from Spain, and Caponata, a Scicilian dish no less, which is all fine but Paris meets Scotland? Really? There is though much that appeals on the menu and for starters, w
EdinburghFoody
I had the fortune to interview Paul Tamburrini last year, before The Honours opened. Conceived as a more relaxed, casual dining experience than Martin Wishart’s eponymous restaurant in Leith, The Honours is a high quality brasserie on North Castle Street. Six of us got together a couple of Saturdays ago to celebrate a birthday and The Honours was the restaurant of choice.<br/><br/>The Honours is a hopping place. We had a two-hour slot (which stretched to two hours and forty-five minutes) and arrived at 18:00 on the dot. We perused the menus over cocktails in the bar. The menu was very tempting and had an interesting variety of dishes but I decided to go for classics: half a dozen oysters to start and a beef fillet with Bearnaise sauce and tomato salad for mains. I didn’t really put the bartender to the test either: I started with a kir royale. A very good choice, if I say so myself. And easy to carry to our table.<br/><br/>The oysters were plump and fresh, perfectly clean – thin shards of shell in your oyster is horrible – and complemented by little dabs of frozen Bloody Mary. The subtle heat of the Bloody Mary enhanced the sea flavour of the oysters. C had a spelt risotto with mozzarella while other members of the party had prawns Mary Rose and jamon belotta.<br/><br/>C and I went to Vienna recently and have been drinking Gruner Veitliner at every opportunity since we came back. We were pleased to see one on The Honour’s wine list and it went very well with the oysters. With the main, I drank a Malbec. We had the window seat and got a good look down the long.<br/><br/>I had asked for my steak rare so it was larger than everyone else’s. The Honours serves their fillet steak on the bone. it has been dry-matured for 28 days and is darkly flavoursome and juicy yet bloodless. It’s brushed with a house marinade and finished with a glaze. I’m sure the steak would be just as good without the glaze – I don’t think it needs the added sweetness – but I enjoyed every morsel of my steak. The salad of cherry tomatoes, shallots and basil was fresh, and I tried a bit of creamy Dauphinoise, and a couple of crisp French fries. C had the gnocchi and there was also a sea bream a la plancha on the table. (There were vegetarian options were but they were not the most imaginative. Gnocchi, pasta and risotto. At least there wasn’t cauliflower.)<br/><br/>Since my last visit to Michael Neave’s I’ve started having soufflé. A good soufflé is a lovely, airy thing and it seems they are quite fashionable at the moment. (Or maybe I’ve just had my eyes opened to them: I keep seeing sweet soufflés on menus.) The flavour du jour was pink grapefruit. The dessert that came out was as light and tall as you could wish for and had a very subtle grapefruit flavour.<br/><br/>C shared an apple tart tatin with a friend. It was perfect. Golden, sticky, soft and crisp all at once. If the other dishes hadn’t convinced us, we might still have gone back for the tarte tatin. The cinnamon ice cream that was served with it was rich and delicious.
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