The Apartment

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• Average price 2 courses:
   £16.50 (lunch)
   £16.50 (evening meal)
• House wine: £11.40 per bottle

• Hitlisted
• High point: Lots of tasty healthy options
• Low point: Perhaps too trendy for some
• Food served: Mon-Fri noon-3pm, 5-11pm; Sat/Sun noon-11pm
• Private dining: Up to 20 covers
• Open since: 1999
• Also offers: Childrens portions, Childrens high chairs, Wheelchair access

The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008 is now in the shops.

This review is from the 2007 edition.

Mellow strains of funky jazz, seductively comfortable Philippe Starck leather chairs and soft, moody lighting make this neighbourhood restaurant between Tollcross and Bruntsfield a stylish, yet incredibly relaxed, hangout. The menu encourages diners to get cosy with one another, offering a range of sharing plates, or 'splits' called 'Chunky Healthy Lines' in place of individual starters. A platter of Thai chicken and king prawns fits the description nicely, arriving lightly char-grilled and accompanied by large chunks of juicy vegetables and a pita pocket stuffed with home-made beetroot coleslaw. Mains are casually divided into 'Fish Things' and 'Other Things', which are mostly meat options. A simple dish of baked seabass 'en papillote' arrives wrapped in a tinfoil packet, lightly steamed in its own juices with fennel, chilli, lime, ginger and some seasonal vegetables. A tender, slow-cooked leg of rabbit is more substantial, sitting in an aromatic puddle of broth and bolstered further by the accompanying chunks of herby Toulouse sausage. The real showstopper arrives as an accompaniment to a block of dense chocolate marquise - a truly Devon creamy scoop of raspberry shortcake ice-cream, studded with satisfying chunks of crumbly biscuit and fruit.